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Because (IF) remarriage is adultery, then it is ongoing adultery until it is severed. But (IF) remarriage is not adultery, then carry on. The bible has a clear list of those who won`t make it if they die in that sin.
If someone is a thief and then see`s the Lord and his heart is changed, he will not only stop stealing but labor to pay back what he can. We do not consider him repentant until he atleast stop stealing or is under going accountability and determined to change at all cost.
Yes even "little sins" can take us to hell, but what those who warn about adultery through remarriage are concerned with is that, many who are remarried do not consider it adultery, and are therefore in very real danger of ending up in hell, crying out "My pastor said it was ok, Oh why didn't someone tell me"
The Bible forbids a person, once divorced, to re-marry the same partner. Divorce is not G_d's will for us, but neither is sinning, under any guise.To sin without repentance is not good for one's after life experience, I know, but to assume that a broken marriage may never be repented of, by either party, is a giant step to take, theologically.
But:
What about people who are divorced against their will - they will be condemned to a life of having no love because the one they loved, and probably still love, has revoked the marriage vows?
What about people who have been divorced by their spouse who then, later, dies. Is that person a divorced person or a widow(er)?
What about people forced into a marriage of convenience, where the other person disappears, never to be seen again?
What about those whose spouse commits adultery within the marriage - does the spouse who stays true have to just put up with it?
What about the spouse who is abused by their other half (either way round) - must they just accept the abuse because to save being beaten, by divorcing the other person, will put them in eternal hell? What a choice for the G_d of love to give them?
Finally, almost, why did G_d tell all his people to effectively divorce their wives and send them and their children away from the camp. How come Jesus has a known foreign prostitute in his genealogy - would she not, under G_d's rules, be tied to the first man she went to bed with? Or the woman at the well with multiple divorces behind her, and no adverse comment on that from Jesus?
G_d is not so black and white on these issues as you seem to think.
Just out of interest, does your theology allow for those in same sex 'marriages' who go through the same process as heterosexual marriages at the point of marriage and at the point of divorce? PS I am NOT arguing for this form of marriage, before you bite my hand off!
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