Comments by Joan Boney:
A woman in our church group was divorced and went to a pastor to see if she could remarry after divorce.
The pastor told her: "My sister divorced and remarried. I don't see anything wrong with that."
A few years ago, the Catholic pope made a televised statement that he didn't see anything wrong about homosexuals.
Neither of these men read the Bible.
So this divorced woman remarried.
A few years later this woman was born again and began reading the Bible. When I met her and she told me this story, she was really angry at that pastor who told her she could remarry. By the scriptures she saw she committed adultery when she remarried.
The vast majority of churches today present a freedom to sin by telling the divorced woman she can remarry after divorce. They ignore what the Bible says and set up another doctrine. They present to their church groups "another Jesus", another word.
There are several scriptures on this subject of divorce/remarriage and they all agree:
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Romans 7:1-3
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
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.
This scripture is "inspired by God", as are all scriptures.
Paul wrote this to the New Testament Church as a "law of God" for the women.
Yet churches today explained this scripture away by saying we are not under the law in the church today.
This foolishness in handling scripture is despicable and damning to the church.
There are many "laws of God" in the New Testament Bible including this law in Romans 7. If you eliminate this concerning the woman being under the law (rule) of her husband, you have to remove most of the New Testament Bible and even some of the Old Testament for God said: Unto the woman HE said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. (Gen. 3:19)
We are not under the Old Testament laws of God concerning sacrifice of sins because Jesus is our sacrifice for sins but that is not the same subject as remarriage after divorce.
Romans 7:1-3 is a valid rule for women in the New Testament church. And when we consider the following scriptures on this subject, notice they agree with Romans 7.
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Paul said the following is the commandment for the Lord in the New Testament Church:
I Corinthians 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.
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Mark 10:6-9 Jesus says: But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Here is one of the most misused scriptures of all twisted teachings in today's churches.
Matthew 5:32 Jesus says, in speaking to the men of the church: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
* If a man divorces a "faithful wife", and that faithful wife remarries, she will commit adultery but her husband will be the cause of her adultery.
* The man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
But churches are twisting this scripture and teaching the following: "If a husband is committing fornication, the wife can divorce that husband and remarry."
This is not correct: The scripture says if the wife is faithful and her husband divorces her and she remarries she will commit adultery. But her husband will be the cause of her adultery upon her remarriage after divorce.
And the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
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If the divorced woman remarries she commits adultery according to the Bible.
Matthew 19
3 The Pharisees also came unto HIM (to Jesus), tempting HIM, and saying unto HIM, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?4 And HE (Jesus) answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
8 HE (Jesus) saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.