That is the final word on DIVORCE per the Bible?

Question

My husband was divorced. He remarried me. So I'm his second wife. We're happily married. Per the Bible, is he committing adultery on his first wife? Where can I read about divorce in the bible, just out of curiousity? thanks

Answer 1

Divorce is allowed for infidelity and abandonment. If his ex-wife cheated on him or left him, then he is clear from a Biblical perspective. He is not allowed to hold the office of bishop.

From an extra-Biblical perspective, if his situation does not meet the above criteria, then he was living in adultery until he married you. That was then, this is now. His obligations are to you - he is no longer committing adultery against his ex-wife. God cares more about the present than he does the past.

Answer 2

Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6, 7.

What will you do if you find out you ARE in the middle of an adulterous relationship with your husband? Divorce him again?

Won't that compound the problem?

Enjoy what you have and try to make it work. If you've started a bad cycle, stop it here in it's tracks. The primary message of Christianity is forgiveness and salvation, not living within guidelines.

Answer 3

Hi Skay,
Erica did not even read what the scriptures said. Let's read it and see...
Matthew 5:32 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 she committed fornication (slept with another man prior to their divorce) then she caused the Biblical Divorce to take place and you are free to marry him without any recourse. Otherwise, you could be committing adultery according to this scripture. Are you and he Christians? Are you attending church? Do not take our word on it. Check with your preacher if you are members of a local church. Email me if you want to discuss it otherwise. Have a great day.
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EDIT:

Molly is wrong about divorce. Divorce was begun my MOses and is spoken of in the BIBLE long before King Henry ever lived.

Answer 4

According what the Bible says, you can only get a divorce if your spouse is unfaithful to you.
Matthew 19: 1-12

Answer 5

That really only applies to Catholics still, Catholics are to NOT get divorced, Because some sign a form saying that they are married forever. But yes according to the bible he is still married, UNLESS he went to his pastor or spiritual guider and they talked about it and he was divorced under God, yeah i don't know how that works but I know some people that have done it to be right in the eyes of their god.

Answer 6

Well, if the reason for his divorce was that his first wife was unfaithful, then no problem. If not, then I think he committed adultery by marrying you. I don't really see that he IS committing it, only that he DID commit it when you two got married. I would suggest you both repent and confess to Jesus or to your priest, give the problem over to the Lord, and go forward together in righteousness.

Answer 7

Life must hold as its primary foundation the opportunity of a knowledge of the divine law. The great ones come, primarily, to remind man of this law which remains the same in all ages -- immutable, unchangeable, eternal, and which deals with man attaining immortality. The mundane laws, these governing human conduct and regulating the Sabbath, divorce, capital punishment, etc., vary with each age according to the capacity of the people. "These diversities are established out of regard for the times, seasons, ages and epochs."

(Abdu'l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 9)

For example, during the days of His Holiness Moses, the foundation and the origin of the religion of God spelled morality and that was not changed in the Christian dispensation, but certain differences crept in through the change of the second part of the religion. During the Mosaic period the hand of a person was cut off in punishment of a small theft; there was the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This was according to the spirit of the age, but as these laws were not expedient in the time of Christ, they were abrogated. Likewise divorce had become so universal that there remained no fixed laws of marriage, therefore His Holiness Christ forbade divorce.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 150)

O My Well-Beloved! Thou hast breathed Thy Breath into Me, and divorced Me from Mine own Self. Thou didst, subsequently, decree that no more than a faint reflection, a mere emblem of Thy Reality within Me be left among the perverse and envious. Behold, how, deluded by this emblem, they have risen against Me, and heaped upon Me their denials! Uncover Thy Self, therefore, O My Best-Beloved, and deliver Me from My plight.

Thereupon a Voice replied: "I love, I dearly cherish this emblem. How can I consent that Mine eyes, alone, gaze upon this emblem, and that no heart except Mine heart recognize it? By My Beauty, which is the same as Thy Beauty! My wish is to hide Thee from Mine own eyes: how much more from the eyes of men!"

I was preparing to make reply, when lo, the Tablet was suddenly ended, leaving My theme unfinished, and the pearl of Mine utterance unstrung.

(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 89)

Answer 8

http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2005/divorce-and-reconciliation-of-marriage-in-islam/


The Bible [New Testament]: Marriage…. (M), no divorce allowed, except in cases of adultery and "uncleanness"

The Bible [Modern-Day Practice]: Marriage-Divorce-Remarriage (M-D-R), ad infinitium

The Quran: Marriage-Divorce-Remarriage-Divorce-Remarriage-Divorce-Marriage (M-D-R-D-R-D-M)

Clearly, Islam promotes and protects the sanctity of marriage, particularly of the first marriage, by allowing a remarriage of the original couple, not once but twice, only finalising an absolute divorce in the third. Opportunities for reconciliation are given during the `iddah period of the divorced wife and prior to the third divorce.





Divorce

"...Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."
Mark 10:11-12


"O Prophet! When you do divorce women, divorce them at their prescribed periods, and count (accurately) their prescribed periods: and fear Allah your Lord..."
Quran 65:1
http://www.christianity-islam.com/woman.html

Answer 9

Divorce was invented by Henry the Eighth when he realized he couldn't just chop his wives heads when he was finished with them so he started his own church The Church of England much like most religions are started when they don't want to live by the rules.

Answer 10

Unless his wife died, yes, according to the bible, its adultry. If you go to any serch engine for the bible, type in divorce and every scripture that refers to it will come up. We all make mistakes, but its better that we learn from them, and stand against them, then act as if they were ok.

Matthew 5:32 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.

And to the guy who calls himself very blasphemously "God", marrige is according to the land. They obviously didnt do it the way we do it now, but they did legally have to be married, according to the land. Our way is different now, but you have to be legally married, according to our land now!