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Heers' “Traditional” Remarriage Error
Marriage is a one time thing, it can be separated at times but you can't remarry a chaste couple together! However, a chaste couple can re-unite themselves. Let's consider a chaste re-union in comparison with the matter of the defiled relationship of Dt. 24.4: If a woman is married to a man and she divorces him, of course they would be separated but hypothetically she could join back with him as long as she remains chaste. However, that re-uniting would be a “restoration” of the marriage; it would not be “remarrying” as in the sense of adultery, which is erringly permitted and occurs in the modern, heretical congregations. However, on the other hand, if the woman divorces her husband and remarries to another man than her first, she becomes an adulteress. She would be a defiled woman even to her second man whether he recognizes it or not. Then, after becoming a remarried woman and no longer chaste, and not being satisfied with her consequent man, if she leaves him also and re-joins with her first man it would be an abomination (Dt. 24:4). If she became defiled by her second man and rejected him, she certainly could not become undefiled by leaving him. Her unchastity would be a physical and spiritual disgrace that she would have to live with for the rest of her life. It would be impossible for her to restore her marriage with her first man. [King David could not have sex with his defiled concubines (a fulfilled prophecy of Nathan the prophet) after the treachery of Absalom (2 Samuel 12:11, 2 Samuel 16:22); they lived as widows (2 Samuel 20.3).] Even though she may go through a legal proceeding for marriage or not to be re-united with him, it would be in vain and would constitute an abomination. What is separation and divorce? Divorce is a psychological-physical separation through commitment (I Cor. 7:10, 11): when the act of divorce is put in writing it becomes a public notice. If the separation extended so far as to a public notice, it could be annulled by the couple if they decided to re-unite, and there marriage would resume. Women must bear in mind to remain chaste and not get involved in affairs, becoming defiled. If a woman lives in an unhappy marriage and her husband leaves her, she should live single and keep her dignity. Perhaps in the future her husband and she may decide to live together again, which would be acceptable. It is a personal decision: Of course the church would desire the unity but would not be required to perform the re-uniting. Heers errs by “traditional” theology (earlier ideas of bishops who came after and later than the bishops of the early church, such as Titus, whom the Apostle Paul directly communicated with.) As he confuses the word “marry” with “re-marry” instead of “re-unite” or “re-join”, he seemingly attempts to think of only the more pure cases of separation, but he still neglectfully refers to previous men who made religious or irreligious policies (as you can see in the video beside Heers' video), rather than basing his idea upon the authority of the Scriptures. Even if he didn't fail so as to promote adultery or fornication in personal thought, he did by associating with and uplifting deviates who have and still do promote immorality and betray the concept of marital purity and the mystery of God and the church (Ephesians 5:25). The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic fail looking unto God and the Scriptures. How can they take communion and tolerate immorality! He realizes that divorce is a tragic thing, very good. Divorce should never happen to anyone, but it does. We are human and not incapable of making mistakes. Many of us may have lacked knowledge to keep from things that destroy people. Eventually, sins lead to grief and people may tend toward separation rather than the acceptance of one another without retrospect to the dividing occurrence. Nevertheless, marriage is a blessed truth and experience in our New Testament times, based on purity as the unity of Adam and Eve. It is mysterious as to its analogy to the relationship of Christ and his church. It is a delicate institution and must be guarded with scrutiny and warning of deviation. If something fails and division occurs between a chaste couple, remaining separate without an affair is possible. However, if that doesn't work, it must be remembered that God will judge adulterers and whoremongers. (Hebrews 13:4) Hopefully, the fear of God will keep a separated person from going into further disappointment and from falling into the sin of immorality and cuckoldry. Immoral affairs lead to continuance and legalization of them. Remarriage is adultery if not fornication. There is nothing “penetential” as the above videos and the heretical make excuses for it. It brings God's judgment, not his approval and blessing. Because a man or woman has hormones and tends to burn in lust, the burning can only be relieved through a marriage of purity, not an act of fornication or adultery.
One-wife requirement of a deacon: “Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.” (I Timothy 3:12) Polygamy was a practice during the era of the first and second law (Deuteronomy). However, at the time of the reproof of the redaction (Deuteronomy) by the Lord Jesus, he referred to the monogamy of Adam and Eve (Mark 10:6) as an original, good and acceptable example. Hence, it seems followers of Jesus and teachers of the church recognized a monogamous and better way for their men to exemplify the restoration of the monogamous institution of marriage and fulfillment of the law in their personal lives. None of the early church officials were noted as having more than one wife, nor as antagonists against the reproof. The deacon is a servant/minister of the local church and relatively under the theological authority of the overseer. The office of a deacon is for a family man, not a bachelor or even a married man without children. A deacon must be married and not a polygamist or remarried! He must have a well-controlled family including a clean (not defiled) wife and orderly children. Society looks upon such men and their close relatives for an example how their own families should live. Ministers of the church are as stars in the dark sky, they give light and direction. Someone like Kenneth Copeland could not qualify as a deacon. He has had more than one woman (wife). Actually, he should be shunned at the doors of any congregation unless he annuls his adulterous relationship, if not fornication, with Gloria. The best way that I can think of to establish clean churches is to establish hierarchy and communities that honor the authority of the Scriptures above men in order to raise the children to be sexually clean, so they honorably marry and have the sexual cleanliness attribute so as to meet the requirement to serve as ministers. We can give background checks for males and females. Links: Beware of fornication-marriage Gravity, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: I Ti 3:8 Pure Conscience: I Timothy 3:9 Proved and blameless: I Timothy 3:10 Character of wives of deacons: I Timothy 3:11 Ruling the home: I Timothy 3:12 Christian Community and Models BEGINNING A LOCAL CHURCH We must start churches that meet the requirements of God. We need faithful, clean couples, not men with defiled wives, to be able to serve as officers in the church. Since we are in the apostasy, it is even hard to find a church that can meet the requirements. We must get out of the polluted congregations that will not repent of sexual uncleanness and begin our own congregations. Overseers needed: Deacons needed: See above.
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