"I would like you to understand a very important point. On page 167 and 168 you stated that 'if an unbelieving spouse leaves a believer, the believer is not bound to the marriage relationship, but is free to remarry.5'   That is a falsehood! It simply is not true. What such a situation does induce is the freedom for the believer to 'remain unmarried' mene'tow a'gamos (I Cor 7:11, 15).

"I have enclosed my papers, "Restoration" and "Excommunication." I also further admonish you in love, fear and admonition in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ: 'Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.' (Heb.13:4) 'For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And Again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.' (Heb.10:30, 31)."

The letter was closed with "Sincerely," and I signed my name. Take note of his distinct, defiant condonation of adultery--"free to remarry"--through his partial, negligent, and contradictory misinterpretation. From another excerpt of "Restoration," you can see Jesus and the Apostle Paul related scrupulously, tenaciously and ethically to this matter:

"Paul emphasizes unto the married woman that it is the Lord who commands her not to depart from her husband (I Cor. 7:10). However, the woman who departs from her husband has two choices: (1) she may remain single, never to marry another man while her husband is living, or (2) she may be reconciled to her husband. Paul also emphasizes to the married man that it is the Lord who commands him not to put away (leave) his wife (I Cor. 7:11). Of course, this applies to a chaste wife (Dt. 24:4). (Note) the contrast of the speakers in I Cor. 7:12.

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