Posted by Rx on June 26, 2008 at 22:41:33:
In Reply to: Re: Better To Teach From Holy Scripture posted by Slippy_Slider on May 26, 2008 at 14:13:37:
SS, Greetngs. Thanks for posting.
Let me quote a statement from your post:
The friends I referred to were in relationships with people a long time before they came to know the Lord. Many of these people have since received Deep Prayer/Deliverance Ministry so that their slate is now clean (for the want of a better word) and many are either now married (to someone else who they met as a Christian)or have remained single.
I take this to mean that you have concluded that marriage can sometimes be a sin.
Scripture teaches adultery is sin. But adultery is an act of men and women.
Marriage is an act of God, and can never be a sin. And it cannot be forgiven. This takes LARGE tolerance FROM US when the joining was unwelcomed, or is something "in the past".
Ask yourself, how else God would call down responsibility upon the parents of the children of "one night stands", and teen promiscuity, and rape, and harlotry... so the EVERY child would have TWO EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE PARENTS, just as the child of a marriage that was the fruit of a stable committed relationship planned years in advance?
These kids are in PERILS because of the lie that teaches that a parent's past joining "is forgiven".
The adultery (if it is in the past) can be forgiven. But the joining, however many, remains until one or the other partner is passed away. Divorced or not.
Take heart just the same. A lot of folk, the majority infact, DO find themselves with former "partners" living, but no one in their lives presently. The same Father God that joined them has a plan for when things get messed up. The ONE that filled the vaccuum of space is bigger than to let your talents crash and burn for eternity, if you only submit to His mission for you.
I urge folk to look for solutions that are NOT adultery because THAT is what grace is all about: Power to do what is godly in a dark hour.
"One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."