IS this True? A person who marries a divorce person is commiting adultry unless there mate died.?

Question

Or was unfaithful

Answer 1

Unfaithful. The biblical reason for divorce is adultery only.
Marriage is only until death do us part.

Answer 2

You can find this in the book of Matthew. The message is,
If your spouse is unfaithful you are set apart already in
Heaven. So if you divorce that spouse and marry another,
neither you nor the new spouse is committing adultery.
The person who lays with the one that was unfaithful, married
or not, are the ones that are committing adultery. If a spouse
decides to forgive the cheating spouse then they should go
to there minister and be reunited in marriage. That's because
they were "set apart in heaven" God knows that none of us
are perfect. That's why He is in the business of forgiving if
we ask with a braking hart. Good luck and God bless.

Answer 3

No, that's why Henry the VIII created his own religion, so he could divorce. :)

But, no it's not. In fact, I don't think it's adultery to have a relationship with someone who's still married, but separated (not legally separated, just separated) if the person's spouse has already cheated and the divorce is in the works. Maybe I'm wrong and going to hell, but hey, my friends will be there anyway! lol! :)

Answer 4

It's a complicated subject and people are always looking for loopholes here.

As with everything scriptural, you can't just take a Bible verse here and a Bible verse there and go by that because you have to go by what the entire Bible says.

So your starting point would be to read all of the verses that address the subject so that you know everything the Bible had to say about it and under what circumstances it was said, and secondly you would need to read these verses in the light of what the entire Bible has to say about Sin, Ethics, Morality etc.

OK, so what does God say about Divorce?

If you want to take a wholistic Biblical approach then according to Mark 10:2 Jesus taught that it's better not to divorce but if you do then the person who initiates the divorce should not remarry, which seems to give THAT person only two options:

1. reconcile with your spouse

or 2. stay apart but never remarry (i.e. remain single).

Presumably the innocent party can remarry but they MIGHT be on very dangerous ground if the new person they marry is also a divorced man or woman and they definately should not marry a non-believer.

Mark 10:2 "And [some] Pharisees came up to Him, testing Him, and [began] to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife. 3 And He answered and said to them, " What did Moses command you?" 4 And they said, "Moses permitted [a man] to write a certificate of divorce and send [her] away." 5 But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 "But from the beginning of creation, [God] made them male and female. 7 "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, 8 and the two shall become one flesh; consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." 10 And in the house the disciples [began] questioning Him about this again. 11 And He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; 12 and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery."

This seems to be confirmed in Luke 16:18 where Jesus said "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries one who is divorced
from a husband commits adultery."

And also 1 Cor 7:10 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not send his wife away. (Divorce her or leave her)

Once more we see that it's the person who initiates the divorce who must never remarry because doing so would make both them and their new spouse adulterers.

In other words it was not righteous for that person to divorce and therefore in God's eyes they are still bound to their first wife or husband and not free to marry again.

In Matt 19: 9 Jesus gave an extenuating circumstance where the person who initiates the divorce is free to remarry and in this special case it's the other spouse who must remain single from then on, and that's when the other party is an
adulterer. Normaly is the person who seperates who must remain single but in the case of Adultery it is whoever is the guilty person who must stay single, while the innocent
spouse may divorce them and remarry.

NOTE that the Bible does not say you MUST divorce an adulterer, in fact it would be Christian to stay and try and reform the sinner and preserve the marriage if you could, but Jesus has given you an escape clause if you don't feel able to do that (or if the other person makes it impossible for you).


Matt 19: 9 "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

Presumably this would also appy to a woman who divorces her husband because of his immorality so it would seem fair to also read Matt 19: 9 as "And I say to you, whoever divorces her husband except for immorality, and marries another man commits adultery."

Answer 5

No!

That's because, just as it was once said, we will "neither marry nor be given in marriage but will be as the angels of heaven." For all who "shall be accounted worthy to attain the mansion worlds neither marry nor are given in marriage; neither do they die any more, for they are equal to the angels." The union of husband and wife in the marriage-home relationship is a material function of the mortals of the evolutionary worlds.

P.931 - §1 Material necessity founded marriage, sex hunger embellished it, religion sanctioned and exalted it, the state demanded and regulated it, while in later times evolving love is beginning to justify and glorify marriage as the ancestor and creator of civilization's most useful and sublime institution, the home. And home building should be the center and essence of all educational effort.

Answer 6

No, Check the definition of adultry. Some religons might consider it adultry.

Answer 7

That is what Jesus taught:
"I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."
- Matthew 19:9

Answer 8

Why listen to anyone when you can read what the book says.

Matthew 5:31-32
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 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.

Answer 9

Yes, according to the Bible, that's true. But I also think that abuse could be considered a viable reason for divorce, and it should be considered acceptable for a person to remarry if they divorce for that reason.

Answer 10

No! once someone has been granted a divorce by a court they can commence a new relationship with an unmarried person without fear of committing adultery...

Answer 11

I would certainly hope not because my husband was married before... he was married a year and a 1/2 to her and we have been married almost 2 years. But i wouldnt think so .