If you divorce your spouse due to infidelity on her part, can she remarry ever again according to scripture? I know the spouse who has been cheated on and gets a divorce can remarry according to scripture but am wondering about the spouse who cheated. As near as I can tell, I don't think she can remarry and have her new marriage blessed by God. What does everybody think?
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I think christ death on the cross covered all sins. She can repent and be washed as white as snow. IMHO she can move forwared with her new life and re-marry.
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I don't think anyone should take marriage lightly, whether you've never been married or whether you've been divorced. Bible does'nt give much encouragement to divorce or to remarry.
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Marriage is never to be taken lightly, however with the right change of heart. ALL things are possible with God.
Paul seems to say that it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
I often view God"™s relationship with the Hebrews like a marriage. How we treat marriage should reflect this. God put up with an awful lot before he divorced certain sects. Then when he rejected the Old marriage/Covenant he provided a New marriage/Covenant.
I have to believe that any being that is willing to die for us, would go along ways to find a way to overlook our short comings, even the re-marriage of a truly repentant person.
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My husbands grandpa is a Pastor and he said that he will not marry any Christian who was previously married because he is not sure and he isn't willing to put God's seal on the marriage because he isn't sure. Josh and I studied the scriptures when my brother in-law was dating a gal who had just been divorced, and he asked us what we thought about it. When it came right down to it the only thing we could tell him was that they would be un-equally yoked because she was not a christian. But everyone has to make their own personal choice. My husband and I talked before we got married and we came to the conclusion that nothing would be grounds for a divorce except physical violence or the endangerment of one of us. The bible says divorce is okay when adultery is committed but my husband and I feel the same way about it, our marriage is worth fighting for and all other options have to be completley exhausted before we take that step. Sorry I can't really help, I have always heard people say that it is up to their personal relationship with God, but I have heard that thrown about loosely.
I think christ death on the cross covered all sins. She can repent and be washed as white as snow. IMHO she can move forwared with her new life and re-marry.
Is this assuming that she had no fore knowledge and then figured it out and repented ? Or did she know ahead of her marrying a 2nd time, and without regard to Gods law , do it anyway, then repent. I'm NotsureI could stand before God and say .... yeah , I knew it was wrong ... and I decided to do it anyway..... so do ya think you could cut me some slack?
I would think that there would have to be at least a modicum of sincerety to it......
I think Christs reply to the woman caught in adultery is at least one key: "...Neither do I condemn thee, Goand sin no more." Personally I think there was much more to this verse, but the Lord's questions sent her accusers away. That inducates to me that a change of heart, a change of action and the repentance process are all possible for any adulterer and adultress. They can change therir lives. Hoprefully the initial goal s would be to repair the initial marriage. If that is not possible, then not carring that sin into a second, but repenting from the sin and mistakes of the first marriage and covenanting to never do it again in the second.
Christdid not condemn the woman to a possible physical death according to the law. I think we should also be very careful in condemning someone to spiritual death because of the spiritual law. If we do not allow others to repent, then we hold ourselves as the light and the judge and assume we cannot allow them access to the atonement of Christ. I think it will be a sad day for some when they meet their eternal judge and the ultimate lawgiver and he confronts them on the thoughtthat repentance should not have been allowed for some.
Just my .02
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I think christ death on the cross covered all sins. She can repent and be washed as white as snow. IMHO she can move forwared with her new life and re-marry.
Is this assuming that she had no fore knowledge and then figured it out and repented ? Or did she know ahead of her marrying a 2nd time, and without regard to Gods law , do it anyway, then repent. I'm NotsureI could stand before God and say .... yeah , I knew it was wrong ... and I decided to do it anyway..... so do ya think you could cut me some slack?
I would think that there would have to be at least a modicum of sincerety to it......
Thank GodI am free from the LAW brother. What LAW are you referring to? I have done many things I knew were wrong and in my weakness did them any way. Just as Paul said he did. Did christ die for certain sins but not all? Good to hear from you brother. Chris
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I can see the points about Christ dying to forgive ALL sins. It does make sense. I should have clarified my question a little better. If the spouse who committed adultery wants to get remarried to the person she was committing adultery with, does Christ's forgiveness cover that 2nd marriage?
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That is where it gets hard for me. Take for instance the woman that Christ forgave for adultery, in those times the woman would have been stoned to death, and it was no mistake that this woman was caught--- you see this was the very act of hate that Christ indured from the pharisees and the saducees. It was a test to Christ to try and find Him guilty, and Christ's response was directed at them. He told her to repent, but it doesn't say if the husband took her back, and it doesn't say that in the event that her husband does not accept her that she if free to marry another.
Okay then there is the time when He spoke to a woman who had been married 5 times and He said that her husband was the first man she married.
So sorry I am still not sure. But here is what I think, if she would cheat on her husband with him, why won't she cheat on him with someone else? If I were the "other" and I hope that wouldn't be the case but I would be leary and that would be the biggest question I would have to face.
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