I What Is Divorce?

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I What Is Divorce?

• To dissolve a marriage relationship, to divorce
  . . . Mt.531f 193, 7-9 (BDAG, 118)
• There is no difference between divorce and
  putting away
• Some make a distinction w/o a difference. E.g.
• Salvation Remission of sins
• Marry joined (Mt.199 Ro.73)

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Divorce Passages

• ASV consistently translates put away
• KJV alternates terms (same word!)
• Mt.532, put away . . . divorced
• Lk.1618b, . . . . put away
• Mt.199b, put away . . . put away
• Mt.197, writing of divorcement . . . put her away

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II What Is Adultery?

• To have unlawful intercourse with anothers
  wife, to commit adultery with...Mt.532 199
  (Th., 417)
• To commit adultery with, have unlawful
  intercourse with anothers wifeLk.1618 (Th.,
  417)

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Quotes

• Mary was betrothed to Joseph she was his wife
  he was her husband, before they had come
  together and he knew her not until she had borne
  Jesus. Clearly, it was the betrothal and not the
  sex act that made them husband and wife.
  Therefore, the breaking of a marriage covenant
  becomes the basis of the wrong (Homer Hailey, p.
  57)
• This form of nonsexual adultery may be new to
  the thinking of most of us. It is, however,
  exactly what Jesus described (Jerry Bassett, p.
  77)

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Their Application

• One may repent of covenant breaking (adultery)
  and keep ones latest wife
• Neither proves the point both assume it
• Every heresy in the church writes its own
  dictionary. E.g.
• Col.211-12 Men may be buried in baptism w/o
  being submerged in water, as they may be
  circumcised w/o spilling of blood (Eadie, 149)
• In a literal context, nonsexual adultery makes
  as much sense as dry baptism

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God charges Israel with adultery

• Context determines if it is literal or figurative
• Even when figurative, the sexual act is the basis
  for the charge (Israel gives herself to another
  in idolatry)

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Ezk.1632, adultery takes strangers instead of
husband

• 15-16, (played the harlot, harlotry)
• 25-26 (offered yourself to everyone who passed
  by, multiplied your acts of harlotry)
• 27, 31, (lewd behavior) 31, (not like a harlot
  because you scorned payment)
• 33, 36 (hired . . . lovers) 36 (your nakedness
  uncovered in your harlotry w. your lovers)
• 38 break wedlock previous vss. show how)
• 40, sentence death by stoning

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Rv.148, fornication idolatry

• Idolatry the cause for divorce (Mt. 199)?
• Mt.528, committing adultery in heart
• fantasizing about covenant breaking?
• Mt.532, the put away woman commits adultery when
  she remarries
• Is her sin a breaking of the covenant?
• Murder is a mistake
• Adultery of a woman . . . causes her to commit
  adultery (if she contracts a new marriage)
  Mt.532 (BDAG, 656)

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Jn.84, caught in the act

• Caught breaking a covenant (signing divorce
  papers)?
• 2 Pt.214, eyes full of adultery
• Focused on breaking a covenant?
• Hb.134 (never mentioned in HHs book)
• Why mention the bed?
• 1 Chr.51, Reuben defiled fathers bed
• How? (Gen. 3522)

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Where Is The Adultery?

• Scriptural definition Not
• (1) the divorce
• (2) the remarriage (legal ceremony)
• According to Some Not
• (1) the first physical union
• (2) subsequent physical unions
• Why did the Lord even talk about it?

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III Are Aliens Amenable?

• Def. responsible, answerable. E.g.
• Lk.1017, even demons
• They did not have to accept the preaching of the
  seventy to be subject to their message. They
  were amenable to the law of the Lord

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If Gods marriage law does not apply to
non-Christians

1. then alien sinners can divorce and remarry as
   many times as they wish
2. when they obey the gospel, they must remain with
   their current spouse

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Gods marriage law applies to all people

• Non-saints, Mk.617-18 (not lawful)
• Herod was not a Jew what law did he violate?
• 1 Co.59-10
• 1 Co.69-11
• Saints, 1 Co.511-13
• Non-married, 1 Co.78-9
• Married, 1 Co.710

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Mt.2818, universal authority

• Lk.237, of Herods jurisdiction authority over
  a territory
• Some try to limit Jesus
• Mk.1615-16, gospel every creature
• Lk.132, throne position of power and
  authority to rule (L-N, 37.71)
• David ruled Israel
• His authority extended to other nations (1
  Chr.1811)

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Lk.1911-27

• Nobleman (Christ), 11-12
• Two groups
• (1) servants (good and bad) 13-26
• (2) enemies, 14, 27
• All subject to His law, whether they want to be
  or not!
• Ps.1102

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Ro.415, no law no transgression

• If aliens are w/o law, how could they be sinners?
  (Ct. 1 Co.69-10!)
• Hb.87-13, one covenant, not two
• The old covenant was limited Christs is
  universal

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Mt.19 includes non-Christians

• 4-6, Jesus bypassed old law and appealed to Gods
  purpose in the beginning
• Male and female, 4 (not limited to Christians)
• Man, 5 (not limited to Christians)
• Whoever, 9 (not limited to Christians)