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The condemnation of the law is lifted.
The only possible exception would be if they were cheated on by the ex (Matt 19:9). Other than that, it's got to be people who were never married, or people whose exes have died. There is no exception for how old you get or how old they get.
Yes, Christ fulfilled the law.
The most we can possibly say that is Biblical in the context of this is 1 Corinthians 7:17-20, where new converts are exhorted to stay in the same position in which they were called. But it will not override verses 10-11. Nor do verses 12-16 give permission to marry someone else.
The problem with these examples is that they are not like the case of divorce and remarriage. For remarriage not to be adultery, the marriage state - which is defined by God, not by man's law - would need to be dissolved. Forgiveness of divorce or adultery does not dissolve the marriage state before God. And if a marriage was adulterous by nature to begin with, we're talking about a remarriage anyway. Therefore, the people involved would need to repent and not return to that relationship. If a man for instance, commits adultery and repents, he needs to leave the woman he was seeing on the side and return to his wife, being faithful to her. And if he was single and committing adultery with someone else's wife, he needs to repent and not see her ever again, unless her husband dies - but he can't bring about or desire his death.
Are you a born-again Believer in Jesus as Savior? Then you were forgiven at the Cross. That is NOT a license to sin. On the contrary, equipped with the Spiritual insight, knowledge, wisdom and understanding of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), you are empowered to resist sin, not give in to it. If you stumble, open your Bible to 1 John 1:9. The ultimate answer, of course, is that you can divorce and remarry without coming under the condemnation (damnation) of God. The most important fact, however, is that dating couples who do so, or who unite as authentic Christians, each learning to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, avoid every opportunity to stray from His fellowship with you.
It's vitally important to not feel as though you're in condemnation if you didn't start seeing someone else. The condemnation shouldn't come to those who were divorced against their will and aren't committing adultery. It should only come to those who are in adultery. Just because someone's not a dating option doesn't mean that they're automatically in sin or should be condemned or should feel as though they are.
I would expand that to also include those who were not married but all their previous sexual partners are dead, or married to someone else (for instance, someone who was fooling around with someone else's spouse, the Lord gets a hold of them, they repent, the spouse goes back to their own spouse and the other one never sees that ex again). This doesn't mean it's a good option, but it is a legitimate option.
I read them and still disagree.
From what I've seen, most people have no problem with divorcees dating. The main exceptions, tend to be the extremists such as KJV-only folks. A lot of them, are the same people who insist contemporary worship services are Satanic.
