Wow.
I cant help but wonder how many souls we've lost because of poor biblical scholarship and man-made doctrine that drives people away from the church.
I'm sure it must make heaven sad.
So true. So much is done in just plain ole ignorance.
Hindsight is 20/20.......sometimes we don't get it 'til years later, when it's too late.
Missionary Bobbie Wendell (UPCI) explained that in Ethiopia divorced women typically became slaves or prostitutes and their children sold as slaves. She told a story about a man with two wives and like 5 kids who had been saved. This man even brought his whole family to the Lord. However, he was told that he had to divorce his second wife. He said he would and put her and the children up in a place to stay. But in the next worship service the man didn’t show up. Bobbie went to the place where he had put his second wife up to stay until the divorce and she was gone. Apparently her husband had come for her and their children. The man and his two wives and children were never heard from again. The man just couldn’t bring himself to divorce his second wife and leave her subject to such social shame.
Personally, I would have allowed them to continue coming to church as a family but disqualified him from pastoring.
1 Tim 3:2
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
KJV
1 Tim 3:12
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
KJV
Titus 1:6
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
KJV
That's exactly what these scriptures mean. There not dealing with marriage and divorce... but dealing with polgamy.
The heresy hunters are still with us. Only now, instead of stakes, they use their books and radio programs to destroy those they consider heretics.... I'm concerned that heresy hunting may be turning into leukemia because some cultwatchers seem more intent on destroying parts of the body than healing the body....
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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