Doesn't Jesus consider you an adulterer if you divorce and then remarry?

Question

SO aren't all those who divorce and then remarry just mock god, jesus, the godhead in general when they pretend to be Christians?

does anyone have the bible verses for this? I know it's in the bible with jesus admonishing his followers about divorce and remarriage...

As far as I understand Christianity, if one continues to sin ( stay married to the second spouse and have sex with him/her) then one hasn't truly repented and cannot be saved, right?

Answer 1

More contradictions:
Is divorce ever permissible?

Divorce is never permissible.
Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery. -- Mark 10:11

Whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another, committeth adultery. -- Luke 16:18

Only when the wife is unfaithful
Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery. -- Matthew 5:32

Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery. -- Matthew 19:9

When the 'unbelieving' partner chooses to leave
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. -- 1 Corinthinians 7:15

When the husband is displeased with his wife
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. -- Deuteronomy 24:1-2

Answer 2

What the Bible Says About Divorce and Remarriage

Is Any Divorce Acceptable?
In a general sense, God allows only three reasons for the dissolution of a marriage.

The first reason is obvious—death of one of the individuals in the marriage. See Romans chapter 7, verse 2 (Romans 7:2).
The second reason is adultery or immorality on the part of one of the individuals (Matthew 5:31,32 19:9, and so forth).
The third reason appears in First Corinthians 7:12-16. (Note that when Paul wrote “I say, not the Lord” in that passage, he did not say that this was not from God, but rather that Jesus had never addressed this topic Himself.) Here Paul states that “if the unbeliever departs” the Christian is not “under bondage.” The same concept is used again in verse 39 where the clear context of being “under bondage” was that you could not remarry. As a rule of hermeneutics, you allow the author to define the terms by what is stated in other areas of the same document. This is the author’s intended meaning. Thus, a Christian is not bound to their marriage if the unbeliever leaves them.
In each of these cases, it seems that God is trying to protect the innocent party that is left to live their life after the marriage ends. Please understand that this is a brief treatment of this subject.

Now let’s look at a situation that does not include one of these “acceptable” divorces. Many people do believe that remarriage after such a divorce constitutes continuous adultery that cannot be repented of (if you remain in the marriage). They would say that these people should divorce again and either be reunited to their original spouse or remain single. They would cite Romans 7:3 as a proof of this position. It is a possible position to take. (Still, remarriage to the same spouse after being married to someone else in between violates Deuteronomy 24:4.)

It is important to note that Romans 7:3 was not designed by Paul to be the “end all” statement of divorce and remarriage, it was actually using marriage in general to illustrate a point about the Law. Obviously God did provide for marriage to end in two other ways besides death. This is not to say that God is soft on divorce. Jesus said that it was only because of our “hardness of heart” that God allowed divorce (Matthew 19:8 and others). Ezra chapters 9 and 10 are sometimes used to support getting a divorce to obey God. However, the reason for divorce in these chapters was to keep the Jewish people pure for the Messiah to come through their lineage. (They had intermarried with those other than Jews, which was in direct violation of God’s commandment to them.) The situation was very different from our situation today. Malachi 2:16 says that God hates divorce, and we think everyone knows that divorce is wrong before God.


How About Remarriage?
The real issue that people wonder about is remarriage. Although God has not given specific information regarding the acceptability of remarriage, we can give you some things to think about in this area.
Obviously, based on 2 Corinthians 5:17, if someone has had a failed marriage, and later got right with God, “all things are done away with”—you get a clean slate as though you had not been divorced. There are certain passages like Romans 8:28 that show that God can use bad stuff that happened in our life to do good stuff. The “prodigal son” of Luke chapter 15 certainly shows someone who walked away from all that was good, messed up his life, and then repented and came back. While there were repercussions for his failures, he was still reinstated as a son. In the book of Joel, a terrible swarm of locusts had devastated the land as a judgment brought on them for their sin. But God then promised that He would “give back the years that the locusts have eaten.”


Summing Things Up
So, how do we summarize? If both partners had a divorce for one of the three “acceptable” reasons, they are free to remarry. If not, things become less clear. We have always believed that God is the God of the future. While people certainly need to take responsibility for what they have done wrong and the consequences that a divorce brought against them, we have to believe that true repentance can right such a wrong before God. It is hard to believe that people are useless to God and unacceptable to Him because of this past failure. Further, it just does not seem consistent with what we read in the Bible about God. However, we must emphasize that this is our opinion. Each person must decide this for themselves based on what the Bible says.

Answer 3

Matthew 5:31,32...
To divorce for any other reason except that your partner commits sexual immorality with another person is sin.

I do not think that they are mocking, my friend. I think that they are trying and the divorce that we see is the final manifestation of the little problems they had in the marriage but no one came to help nor educate them, No one goes into a marriage thinking that they will divorce in the next few days or years. so the little problems that remain unsolve become big problems later.

However, that would be a fact of life for many people, are we then as Christians suppose to avoid or judge them? Which would be a more Christlike behavior, to love them just the way they are and accept them or to condemn, judge and accuse them? Religion judges people but as a Christian we have to accept them and show them a better way.

Forgiveness from the past, aceptance for today and a hope for the future. Jesus Christ, He is the redeemer and He has a way.
He can forgive us, accept us and give us a hope.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

Jesus said in Matthew 5:32

32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

James 4:17
17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

Before a person welcome Jesus as his Lord and Savior, a person does not know what is sin and what is not. When you accept Jesus-- you confess your sin and sincerely repent--
When Jesus defended an adulteress from the pharisees, He told her-- I forgive you and sin no more...

Jesus forgives those who sincerely repent and God erases that person's previous sins, including being married and that person divorces. But once this person repents, and he knows now what is right and what is wrong, God holds that person responsible if he commits sin-- such as marrying and divorcing again. Sins come with consequences, even if you are a Christian.

Answer 5

Read Matthew 19:3-11. Note especially that Jesus qualified His statement in verse 11. See also I Corinthians 7:10-17. I think we need to be careful in the matter as we can err in one of 2 ways - by being legalistic to the point of bringing people into bondage, which is not of God; but we can also be casual to the point of being licentious. Every case needs to be considered carefully and prayerfully. Sometimes, it is bluntly, none of our business.

Answer 6

Here I found the verse:

Divorce
31"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' 32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery." Matthew 5:31-32

So basically if you divorce for any other reason except marital unfaithfulness and remarry, you're commit adultery

Answer 7

If you divorce in order to remarry, yes it is adultery. If you partner has decided to go off with someone else, breaking the marriage vow, then you are free to divorce and remarry and it is not adultery.

Answer 8

What's so bad about adultery? Jesus defended a prostitute.
Adultery can keep sanity to marriages that don't work.
If your spouse becomes a psychotic killer, shouldn't you have another chance?
So much of this Bible foolishness.

Answer 9

He may have defined adultery, but didn't place it as any worse of a sin than others.

As Christians, we understand that we're all sinners saved by grace. None of us claim to be sinless or perfect.

That's why we have a SAVIOR.

Silly piggy.

Answer 10

Yes, he does, in Matthew 5:31-32. It is why the Catholic church does not permit church remarriages.