Deborah13
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Continued from post #80
1 Corinthians 7 ESV
15 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
KJV
1Co 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.
In the verse below God tells Ezra to tell the Hebrews to divorce their foreign wives. (unbelievers)
Paul says stay with them, if it pleases them to live with you. But if they choose to leave you are free.
So Paul says this person is no longer under bondage. This person is now free.
Well if the person has departed then the only bondage they could still be under is the marriage bond.
But Paul says they are no longer in bondage to this person. They are free to remarry.
Paul doesn't say they have to wait for the unbeliever to divorce them and remarry. The abandoned person is free to get the divorce and remarry.
In Josh's post we see where Dr Cole points out that God was not always against divorce, in fact He commanded once.
So we see in Ezra, God is not against divorce in All cases. Paul would have known this scripture.
Ezr 10:11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
But how does Paul's teaching help the believer to is married to a believer who abandons them?
If a believer gets an illegal (illegal by God) divorce that person has abandoned their spouse.
If a believer leaves their spouse and will not attempt to restore the marriage, they have abandoned their spouse.
But wait, the one who did this is a believer, not an unbeliever. What does the OT say? What other things did Paul say?
Exodus 21:10 ESV
10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
KJV
Exo 21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exo 21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
1Ti 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1Ti 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
In Exodus this wife had been an indentured Hebrew woman and the Hebrew master married her. Then he neglected her, did not provide for her as a wife. She was allowed to go Free, without being redeemed for money because he had dealt with her 'deceitfully'. She was no longer in bondage to him. She was free to remarry.
This is the same as two believers. If one abandons the other they are in effect doing the same thing.
And Paul says, they are worse than an unbeliever.
1 Corinthians 7 ESV
15 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
KJV
1Co 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.
In the verse below God tells Ezra to tell the Hebrews to divorce their foreign wives. (unbelievers)
Paul says stay with them, if it pleases them to live with you. But if they choose to leave you are free.
So Paul says this person is no longer under bondage. This person is now free.
Well if the person has departed then the only bondage they could still be under is the marriage bond.
But Paul says they are no longer in bondage to this person. They are free to remarry.
Paul doesn't say they have to wait for the unbeliever to divorce them and remarry. The abandoned person is free to get the divorce and remarry.
In Josh's post we see where Dr Cole points out that God was not always against divorce, in fact He commanded once.
So we see in Ezra, God is not against divorce in All cases. Paul would have known this scripture.
Ezr 10:11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
But how does Paul's teaching help the believer to is married to a believer who abandons them?
If a believer gets an illegal (illegal by God) divorce that person has abandoned their spouse.
If a believer leaves their spouse and will not attempt to restore the marriage, they have abandoned their spouse.
But wait, the one who did this is a believer, not an unbeliever. What does the OT say? What other things did Paul say?
Exodus 21:10 ESV
10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
KJV
Exo 21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exo 21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
1Ti 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1Ti 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
In Exodus this wife had been an indentured Hebrew woman and the Hebrew master married her. Then he neglected her, did not provide for her as a wife. She was allowed to go Free, without being redeemed for money because he had dealt with her 'deceitfully'. She was no longer in bondage to him. She was free to remarry.
This is the same as two believers. If one abandons the other they are in effect doing the same thing.
And Paul says, they are worse than an unbeliever.
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