Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 10:17:21 GMT -7
Has anyone also read the article 'THE BIBLICAL TEACHING ON DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE' by Dr. Leslie McFall.?
Dr. Leslie McFall research and writings goes against today's belief in Divorce and Remarriage.
TRUTH No. 1: No civil, legal, or State divorce is valid. This includes all human divorces that have taken place on planet Earth since Adam and Eve sinned. Not a single one of them severed the one-flesh union of a lawful marriage. They all took place without God’s permission. They were all unilateral decisions, as they are to this day, and will be to the end of time.
TRUTH No. 2: Only God can end a lawful marriage. His only instrument is death, never divorce. The very act of getting a divorce is itself a sin if the person getting it believes it dissolves their first marriage.
TRUTH No. 3: All remarriages are adulterous relationships while both spouses are alive. Consequently a divorced person is still married to their first, lawful, one-flesh partner, irrespective if either or both spouses remarry. God only recognises the first marriage as a legitimate relationship.
TRUTH No. 4: Reconciliation was deliberately made impossible by God as a punishment for divorce under the Law of Moses, but it is highly desirable under Grace. Second marriages must be undone (retracing the legal steps if necessary). Divorced-and-remarried persons will not enter or inherit the Kingdom of God if they do not obey Jesus’ command, “Go and sin no more.”
GENERAL TRUTH: Remember that all human divorces (including Moses’s) are play-acting, that is, nothing happens as far as God is concerned, so the first wife or husband will have to go through the charade of ‘playing the system’ to undo their bogus divorces in order to get free, and return to their first partners (if possible, otherwise they must remain unmarried to another person).
The divorce certificate has no greater value than a piece of toilet paper. God hates divorce. We underestimate the gravity of this sin to our eternal regret. Flee divorce as you would flee fornication. Flee the divorce court as you would flee the brothel, for both bring spiritual death to all who enter them to satisfy their passion.
Everything that follows in this work, from obscure textual discussions to fine-tuning the Christian marriage to reflect the will of God in all its glory through the doctrine of love-headships, is intended to uphold these compass truths.
The whole of the debate on divorce and remarriage boils down to these two statements, and we must choose between them. One or other of them is false.
(A) If there is no exception in Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness, then there is no exception in His teaching on divorce. (McFall’s choice; Early Christian's belief)
(B) If there is an exception in Jesus’ teaching on divorce, then there is an exception in His teaching on forgiveness. (Erasmus’s choice; Modern Day Christian's belief)
Every scholar, and every solution, falls under one or other of these two statements.
Dr. Leslie McFall research and writings goes against today's belief in Divorce and Remarriage.
TRUTH No. 1: No civil, legal, or State divorce is valid. This includes all human divorces that have taken place on planet Earth since Adam and Eve sinned. Not a single one of them severed the one-flesh union of a lawful marriage. They all took place without God’s permission. They were all unilateral decisions, as they are to this day, and will be to the end of time.
TRUTH No. 2: Only God can end a lawful marriage. His only instrument is death, never divorce. The very act of getting a divorce is itself a sin if the person getting it believes it dissolves their first marriage.
TRUTH No. 3: All remarriages are adulterous relationships while both spouses are alive. Consequently a divorced person is still married to their first, lawful, one-flesh partner, irrespective if either or both spouses remarry. God only recognises the first marriage as a legitimate relationship.
TRUTH No. 4: Reconciliation was deliberately made impossible by God as a punishment for divorce under the Law of Moses, but it is highly desirable under Grace. Second marriages must be undone (retracing the legal steps if necessary). Divorced-and-remarried persons will not enter or inherit the Kingdom of God if they do not obey Jesus’ command, “Go and sin no more.”
GENERAL TRUTH: Remember that all human divorces (including Moses’s) are play-acting, that is, nothing happens as far as God is concerned, so the first wife or husband will have to go through the charade of ‘playing the system’ to undo their bogus divorces in order to get free, and return to their first partners (if possible, otherwise they must remain unmarried to another person).
The divorce certificate has no greater value than a piece of toilet paper. God hates divorce. We underestimate the gravity of this sin to our eternal regret. Flee divorce as you would flee fornication. Flee the divorce court as you would flee the brothel, for both bring spiritual death to all who enter them to satisfy their passion.
Everything that follows in this work, from obscure textual discussions to fine-tuning the Christian marriage to reflect the will of God in all its glory through the doctrine of love-headships, is intended to uphold these compass truths.
The whole of the debate on divorce and remarriage boils down to these two statements, and we must choose between them. One or other of them is false.
(A) If there is no exception in Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness, then there is no exception in His teaching on divorce. (McFall’s choice; Early Christian's belief)
(B) If there is an exception in Jesus’ teaching on divorce, then there is an exception in His teaching on forgiveness. (Erasmus’s choice; Modern Day Christian's belief)
Every scholar, and every solution, falls under one or other of these two statements.