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Remarriage bad news for those who have no problem with it

mikeforjesus

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I'm sorry but I have to disagree I think everyone has the gift virginity and celibacy is a chosen path but it should only be used for someone who needs your love if they regret their choices. If virginity was a gift I must have it or otherwise God is not looking after me to give me a spouse. It is because He knows I can handle virginity
Also but we don't know if someone needs love they may deny it and even if they do not now they may benefit later therefore you can choose to be celibate not saying excuse I don't have the gift. God might work miracles but you don't have to in that case if you absolutely know they do not care for your sacrifice at all and will still get remarried even if you do
 
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I guess not all have the gift
ok - we agree.
but it can be given to all if you seek it.
Where do you get that from? Scripture says you get it if and ONLY if the Holy Spirit wills it, and it seems the general consensus of scripture is that only a few are willed to get it.

Can I get the gift of healing or word of knowledge by seeking it? No. Charismatic gifts are given by the Holy Spirit "... to each one individually just as He wills." 1 Cor 12.11b
 
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I think it's wrong to say that celibacy is unobtainable unless gifted because there are many who have to obey or get married so I think your on the right track. Otherwise how can anyone get anywhere in an unmarried state. I think that abstaining from unmarried sex is equivalant to what those who have a burning desire for the same sex are expected to do also.
 
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Marriage can be difficult. I am sure God understands us. He made us. We are individuals and I am sure God treats us as such. Some can handle things better than others.

May God's will be done....
 
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The way a lot of professing evangelicals talk, it's as if Paul never wrote:

"But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife." (1 Corinthians 7.11).
 
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Paul said it is better the widows remain as they are therefore they all can
Paul said young widows should remarry. In fact, he said that the church should not allow young widows to dedicate themselves to the church and should not take them into the church;s care. That they should remarry.
1Ti 5:14 I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;
 
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Widows are permitted to remarry but paul said they are happier single

1 Corinthians 7:7-9
7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to the
widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Timothy 5:11-12
11 But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, 12 having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith.

Then it explains because they are idle and busy bodies etc he wants them to remarry but notice they are widows not someone with a failed marriage where the former spouse is still alive.
He allows this because he knows they are unhappy because they are weak worldly people and may behave in bad and worse ways as Christian

1Ti 5:14 I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;
 
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If I left my new spouse that would also be sin -- yet another sin.

Ask forgiveness for the past -- repent -- love and stay with the wife of today.

M-Bob
 
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If I left my new spouse that would also be sin -- yet another sin.

Ask forgiveness for the past -- repent -- love and stay with the wife of today.

M-Bob

Sometimes one cannot stay with a marriage partner. God knows this. He is understanding and merciful.
 
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Widows are permitted to remarry but paul said they are happier single
True. But staying single pre-supposes one has the gift of celibacy.
 
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