homosexuality is wrong ..BUT

[Alithis]

homosexuality is wrong ..BUT .. adultery is sort of ok .???

yes the thread TITLE is what we call a catch phrase

as professing christians we often openly strongly even belligerently denounce homosexuality ( the practice of two of the same sex lying together to practice intimate acts )
but we SELDOM discuss Adultery .

could it be that we do the former to quell the conscience of the latter ?
when did adultery become permissible ? it is a direct sin a knowing willfull sin .
we cannot do it by accident .

when is remarriage ok and not adultery ?
thats a good question..we should start there .that question affects my life (though that is a story longer then any may wish to sit and read haha )

and you know me - if you engage on the topic you must base it solely on the sound word of God .

 

[Josiah]

Anything and everything sort of ABSOLUTE moral PERFECTION and LOVE that equals Christ's love for us - is wrong. And makes us lacking, falling short, deserving of hell.

Okay is not okay. Righteous is the mandate.... and there is NO ONE who is so, no, not even ONE.





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[Alithis]

when is remarriage ok and not adultery ? based on scripture

 

[visionary]

If a partner commits adultery and they divorce. The innocent is free to marry.

 

[psalms 91]

Yup and still doesnt excuse homosexuality although I think some try to muddy the waters with this

 

[Full O Beans]

If they are wrong, they are wrong. There is no comparing of one sin to another, and no mitigating the sin of them. As for remarriage, that is between a couple and God. When a person has been sinned against in marriage and is divorced, he or she is free to remarry. If one has sinned and divorced and has had a reconciliation with God and is living in His will, God is a good God and will bring people together to serve Him. God is all about reconciling people to Himself, and offering new lives to His precious children.

 

[Alithis]

If a partner commits adultery and they divorce. The innocent is free to marry.

Can you scripture base that for me.
-my present (and teachable ) understanding is that such infidality is ground for divorce (God hates divorce) But where does it scripture state its grounds for remarriage ?
Please know i am not asking to challange im seriously asking to know..

 

[Full O Beans]

Anyone who is forgiven of his sin is free to marry. God doesn't impose restrictions on people He has reconciled to Himself. He forgives and RESTORES.

 

[Alithis]

Yup and still doesnt excuse homosexuality although I think some try to muddy the waters with this

The thread title caught your attention... It did its thing ...
Am hoping to focus on the adultary question. It sort of gets swept under the mat of the gay topic in christian circles.

 

[Alithis]

Anyone who is forgiven of his sin is free to marry. God doesn't impose restrictions on people He has reconciled to Himself. He forgives and RESTORES.

..yes. Thats what is often taught..but upon what scripture is it based..
...?

 

[Full O Beans]

Upon the scripture, "Behold all things are made new!" See 1 John 1:8 - 9

 

[Alithis]

Upon the scripture, "Behold all things are made new!" See 1 John 1:8 - 9

its a great scripture .. (and i think you may be using it in a manner iv not heard presented before -Dont assume thats a bad observation lol )

does that include one who is already a disciple of the lord Jesus whose partner was unfaithful and who left and divorced (which is a valid though NOT preferable option-being that forgivness is ALWAYS the preferred option by God ) does that mean that person can then go and remarry ? is that not in opposition to every other scripture on the topic ? divorce is allowed clearly .. but where does it say that can remarry ?

 

[Full O Beans]

its a great scripture .. (and i think you may be using it in a manner iv not heard presented before -Dont assume thats a bad observation lol )

does that include one who is already a disciple of the lord Jesus whose partner was unfaithful and who left and divorced (which is a valid though NOT preferable option-being that forgivness is ALWAYS the preferred option by God ) does that mean that person can then go and remarry ? is that not in opposition to every other scripture on the topic ? divorce is allowed clearly .. but where does it say that can remarry ?

When Jesus said what He said about adulterers, He was saying that a man (could be a woman, also) who divorces his wife in order to marry someone else---one with an adulterous heart, and an evil agenda---he cannot remarry. But those who have returned to the Lord, received His forgiveness and have undergone His discipline and restoration are indeed free to marry, as they are made whole in Christ. God wants nothing more than for His people to be strong in Him, and to reveal to the world His great power of forgiveness and restoration.

In the case of the abandoned wife, for instance, she is always free to remarry.

It is the smug, independent person who commits adultery and experiences the tragic fallout of that---he falls in love----who should not remarry in that state. He will stew in his own juice until he is brought to his knees in repentance.

 

[Brighten04]

Alithis check out 1 Cor. 7

 

[Alithis]

iv not heard these verses presented this way before ..im struggling to reconcile them to what i read - honest

 

[Full O Beans]

Jesus says that if a person has been unfaithful and divorces, he is not free to remarry---anyone who divorces a spouse with the purpose to marry someone else is an adulterer, and sins in doing so. But one who has been on the receiving end of adultery and is divorced by that spouse is free to remarry.

Matthew 19:9
And I tell you this, whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery—unless his wife has been unfaithful.”

 

[Brighten04]

I don't know if you checked out 1 Cor 7 yet but here is a verse from there.

1Cor. 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

 

[Alithis]

I don't know if you checked out 1 Cor 7 yet but here is a verse from there.

1Cor. 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

oh yes ..sorry . but thats a different scenario fro two believers ..-who end up in the tragic case of a divorce .

 

[Alithis]

Jesus says that if a person has been unfaithful and divorces, he is not free to remarry---anyone who divorces a spouse with the purpose to marry someone else is an adulterer, and sins in doing so. But one who has been on the receiving end of adultery and is divorced by that spouse is free to remarry.

Matthew 19:9
And I tell you this, whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery—unless his wife has been unfaithful.”

except in the case of sexual immorality or infidelity..(the translation is not too clearly defined ) ..if he/she divorces and married another the act of remarrying becomes an act of adultery -because if there is no valid reason for divorce then God considers them "still married " to the first partner .

but if the two got divorced and the one who was to be considered the "cause" (the offender causing the divorce to come about{though in truth there is seldom one offender ) went off and backside ..years later returned to the lord .. then remarried ..??

 

[YESLORDIWILL]

1Co 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.