Terry wrote:
All I can tell those folks is to read Ezra 10:10 to the
end of the chapter. You will see a story of men who
had also married women that they should not have
married, and how they corrected the situation.
Even when it is painful, God does not comprmise
with the Devil.
Sounds like good tough love, Terry, but what else can be argued from Ezra?
This is the passage that the Churches of Christ hammer about why remarried
couples must divorce and then remarry their original spouses. Are you, on
the basis of this passage, going to tell a Jewish Christian man who has
married a Gentile Christian woman that he must divorce the Christian and go
marry a Jew? Do you really think that this would be following the Spirit of
Christ's teaching on this matter? What about Paul's teaching that the
unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife?
These people in Ezra divorced these "strange women" alright, but I don't
think that they were doing so with the idea of becoming eunuchs for the
kingdom of God. They surely did so in anticipation of remarrying again
within Judaism. So this particular example does not exactly cross over well
to the teaching of Christ on this subject. The thrust of what Jesus taught
on this is that he is against divorce, yet his teachings would seem to
create more divorce the way you are interpreting and applying it.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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