Are both adulterers or just one?

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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Does it matter? Sin is sin. If she is not born again, she is shut out of the Kingdom of God anyway. So is he. It seems as if his Christian profession is doubtful. Christians should not be marrying unbelievers.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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Both were in an adulteress relationship. He can not unscramble the egg so repentance would mean that he will not commit adultery with his new wife. The new wife is dead in her sins as she is not a believer.

I think she is commiting adultery and he is commiting fornication.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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Hi Hannah66,

According to Scripture, they are both committing adultery.

• He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” Matthew 19:8-9 (NKJV)

• Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. Luke 16:18 (NKJV)

• Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife. And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.” Mark 10:2-12 (NASB)

Hannah66 said:

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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He bears the weight of wrongfully terminating a godly marriage and then remarrying. He is in adultery. The new woman is too, but if she has been deceived regarding the sinfulness of his divorce the guilt of adultery is not imputed to her.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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At face value she is innocent and he's committing adultery.

There is one exception "whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality". Which does not necessarily have to occur after marriage. If she withheld the information that she had sex prior to their marriage from him, then things are far less black and white. I would only say then it's a mess beyond my ability to give any good advice.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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It all sounds a bit confusing but if she is aware of his marital status and chose still to become involved with him then she too is engaged in the act of adultery.

The man is leading a sinful life, and maybe this is the best outcome for the Christian wife. She can start anew now.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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I would say that he broke their union as one when he joined with another woman the first time.

The woman he was married to (for 20 years) was legally, under the Law, free. The only allowed reason for divorce under God is if either party commits adultery. The union is broken then, because it was consummated with someone else.

Legally, even, she could have divorced him after the first cheat with "reasonable" ease - especially depending on the region. As someone already said, a nonbeliever is already doomed, so it doesn't actually matter what they do with respect to the Most High and the man who considers himself Christian.

He committed adultery when he was unfaithful with his wife, and the woman he was with while married was participating in his adulterous act--in this they were both committing adultery. Him for being with someone who wasn't his wife, and she for being with him while he was married.

I would say the wife who though hurt by the adultery is better off without him. And I hope that the Church is there tending to her emotional wounds that she can heal and get her life back.

As far as the man is concerned, well the question is how should the Church respond? And the answer of course is by properly preaching both Law and Gospel, with the aim toward repentance and reconciliation. How that exactly plays out ultimately has to come down to pastoral care and congregational ethics. The situation is, of course, complicated as he has remarried and his new spouse is not a believer. Is there even any remorse? If there is no remorse, if there is no repentance, then they are actively shipwrecking their faith and that is a very dangerous thing. But, again, it all comes down to pastoral care.

-CryptoLutheran

Both of them are committing adultery.

I don't see a case for the second "wife's" innocence. How could she not know that he was married.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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She is another wife she is not commiting adultery how could she if she had no husband.
The man is having two wifes atm just lied to himself that he is having one.

Hannah66 said:

A man, professing to be a christian divorces his wife(of 20 years marriage) She is a committed christian. He divorced her NOT on biblical grounds. She has done nothing wrong.
Before separating from her and after separation he was willingly committng adultery.

He was in relationships with numerous women.
While, still married to his wife, he was with a woman for about a year.
He then divorced his wife and remarried this woman. She is not a christian.


They are married to each other and he has not repented.

Have they both committed adultery or just one of them?

Is she innocent or is she committing adultery?

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A pin.
Angels.
How many can dance?

Same question.

They are both guilty, the only innocent person is his godly wife