Answers about remarriage

Can you commit adultery by marrying a divorced person?

The idea that marrying someone who is divorced may be adultery comes from two things Jesus says: “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.”  Luk 16:18 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate [...]

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Are divorced Christains that have remarried required to divorce that spouse and remarry their first spouse?

Nowhere in the Old or New Testaments does God say that people who have remarried need to divorce their new spouse and remarry their first spouse. In fact, under the Law of Moses, the closest scenario strictly forbids remarrying the first spouse: {1} When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she [...]

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