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Old 06-07-2009, 07:45 AM
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Georgie, I have more questions, please answer them.
In studying this morning about marriages, I came across these puzzling verses:
(And, THANK YOU for insisting, Jassy, that I use Scripture, because that has brought to the forefront, these questions)
3: So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Further on, the bible says something like we're delivered from the law, if we're born again, so are women who marry and remarry, another man, NOT an adulterer, or yes, she is an adulterer, as long as her past husband lives?
If a saved woman was divorced BEFORE she was saved, then married another man BEFORE she was saved, but then got born again while she was married to the 2nd husband, do the SCRIPTURES say she is an adulteress, or is NOT?

Also, Ro 8:1 1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3: For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7: Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
This
validates that the woman is NOT under condemnation, if she is in the Spirit, and yet, remarried. Right?
Or, is divorce such a carnal thing, that the divorced wife IS under condemnation, but, since Jesus says there is NO condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, is the divorce not a sin to her?

Now, in John 4:18, Jesus says the woman has had 5 husbands, so is He saying she is still an adulteress?
Or, is He saying she has NO husband now, since she's obviously divorced from the other five?
17: The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

So, is a born again man or woman under condemnation if they become divorced, and do not remarry the same man again?
Or are they free from condemnation if they, being saved, end up being divorced, through no fault of theirs, and then marry another man?
I hope I'm not too confusing here.
What does Jesus clearly say about that?

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