The Husband Of One Wife
 

Case In Point:

A Pastors wife falls away. She has an affair with multiple men. She divorces her husband. He is faithful to Christ remarries a few years later.

Is he the husband of one wife?

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

1 Cor 7:15
Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

Yes...the affair and divorce annuls the previous marriage

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

How was he when God called him? Does God know all things present tense? Paul said whatever state your in when God chose you to remain in that state?
Is the church more perfect than the pastor? and it goes on.

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

Yes.

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

A Pastor falls away, and has trysts with multiple women while pastoring. His wife divorces him. He repents and settles with his favorite woman and marries her.

Is he the husband of one wife?

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

Yes.

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

NO!

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

Yes. The key word here is "repents". All things are new after repentance. We tend to only like that concept when mercy is being applied on OUR behalf, but God is not petty and He readily dispenses forgiveness even to those whom we tend to view cynically.

Re: The Husband Of One Wife
 

Kcleejc,

Bearing in mind that in Hoovie's hypothetical scenario the sinful pastor later repents is it your position that God does not forgive adultery?