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John MacArthur Remarriage Heresy
Review of “The Truth about Divorce (Mark 10:1-12)” John MacArthur
Mt. 7:16 "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"
Comment:
Murder and adultery are horrific sins. Serial killers and serial, adultery promoters cause great destruction in society. It is time people forsake double-life (one part seemingly good mixed with an evil part), unGodly pastors and leave factions. Notorious, Charles Manson said that he did not kill anyone. Nevertheless, He did admit having something (being involved) to do with the well-publicized murders. Similarly, a heretical pastor who is an adultery promoter does not have to commit adultery with all of his victims in order to devastate them; all he has to do is persuade and lead them into defilement in order to destroy them or someone associated with and deceived by them. The message of hurt carries on first through ill advice and ends in physical and spiritual harm. It is time people should be angry with such rhetorical lies and individual devastation. Get out of the mainstream churches!
I personally wish students of the Bible would search more profoundly on issues rather than listening to relatively biased or unlearned evangelists who do not work with their hands for their sustenance.
Exodus 22:16 “And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.” Note, this is a command. So in the case of incest, the relationship would require disannulment and the ex-virgin would have to remain single and not marry someone else at a later time to prevent fornication. Dt. 22:20 “But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.”
It is illusory to think marriage is instituted by mere contract! Marriage is a physical sex act between a virgin female and a male (Ex. 22:16, Dt. 22:13-21, 28, 29)--biblical revelation. The virginity of a woman is proof of a woman's eligibility to marry--natural revelation. The male partner by either sharing or violating the virgin female's chastity becomes either a husband or a polygamist (although legally disallowed in many places), the latter sexual status is in contradiction to a new testament principle of monogamy (I Cor. 7:27). Nature and God's written word, natural and biblical revelation, harmonize as to the enlightenment of the essence of marriage and encourage the continuance of a chaste relationship.
The once virgin female partner no longer has a justifiable opportunity to have sex with anyone else as long as her first male sex partner is alive--to do so would commit fornication. In the case of the female's first man dying, she would have a justifiable opportunity to date or marry someone else (Romans 7:1-3). Sexual experiences with men other than the first man (while he is living) defile the female and commence a degree of unchastity even if the first man were to die. Marriage is based upon the principle of unity ("one flesh" Gn. 2:24) and chastity.
Now, on the other hand, 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.
So, considering the biblical facts concerning the essence of marriage and divorce, and the world-wide immoral sexual circumstances, there are probably many unregistered (unpublished) marriages (more so than are revealed by statistics, or spoken of) and divorces. Subsequently, due to the disregard of biblical precepts, many unregistered and registered forbidden, but legalized, marriages have resulted.
Links:
John MacArthur on Focus On The Family
My sermon Illusion
Biblical studies on rape
Annulment of illicit relationship
Hebrew Patrilineal, Inheritance Law
Racial and cultural homogeneity
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