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Mr. Humphrey,
First, it is not forthright to post a discussion
forum with no way to reply, nor is it honest
and sincere to post communications with no
optional open discussion. This amounts to
an assumed authority. It's like saying there
is no debate allowed over the issue. Jesus
will have the final word.
That said, let's consider the issue of marriage.
The laws given to Israel were probationary
laws to prevent what had happened in the first
age, before the flood. Those laws were
given in a sort of way so as to provide prophetic
insight to the larger plan of the Lord to
prepare his people for eternal life.
Let us demand a departure from an overly simplistic
hairsplitting interpretation of the Law given to Israel, acknowledging the advanced
understandings given in the sayings of Jesus. (If
you say you are a Christian) (?)
The concept of marriage is an illustration
of how a person's relationship should be unto
the Lord:
Monogamy: We should have no other gods before
us: as if one being married to the Lord (is
equal to) eternally to be with Him which (is
equal to) being one, with the Lord. (and Him
only, with fidelity.)
This is the symbolism of Marriage: One Lord,
for life. (equals Monogamy)
The problem of broken marriages among ordinary
people who attend a formal organized church
is merely a symptom of the larger issue of
living one's life unto the Lord, whereas a
certain percentage of people who exist on
the conveyor belt of modern society only are
forced to join a church in order to obtain another prescribed plateau of social standing,
but the foundational instruction of Jesus
to love and forgive one another, as He has
forgiven us (Perfect love and forgiveness
unto eternal life), is merely another
moral instruction to be toyed with (in the
vanities of depravity).
The institution of Marriage is an illustration
of how a person's relationship should be unto
the Lord.
As the entrusted ministers of the Lord's grace
in Jesus, any ensuing discussion about the
Lord's laws given to Israel is merely a retarded
testimony of gracelessness, whereas Jesus
translated those laws given in the former
time into a new level of understanding: our
love for one another should be pure, loyal,
with fidelity, in honor of our larger relationship
unto Jesus.
Therefore, a ruined marriage between soul
searching moralists is reduced to just another
sin, just as any ignorant, overeducated person
thinks to attain their own degree of righteousness.
It is all sin, in ignorance and vanity.
Let there be no false affront, nor any vain
man standing in the way of anyone who desires
to know the unsearchable love and forgiveness
of Jesus, who is the Lord and King of the
modern Church.
The perfect love and forgiveness of Jesus
is not an obstacle course set up by humans
to obtain a degree of social standing in this
world.
The divorced woman is otherwise a target for
the perfect love and forgiveness of Jesus,
to demonstrate His Heavenly love as a replacement
of human folly and false love.
For the Church to continue in the hairsplitting
of laws given to a former age is retarded, not advanced in the graces and greater knowledge
given in Jesus.
But for now, I will commit my trust in the
Holy Spirit for your leadership into the amazing
grace of Jesus, and the knowledge he gives
through the Comforter who does lead and guide
us into all Truth.
Richard
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