"Spiritual Marriages"

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Joelel

[B]All believers is to marry only in the Lord,that is an other believer.If a believer is married to an unbeliever they are not married in the Lord and the Lord has not joined them together.

Hmm.

So all sinners who are presently married...if one of them is converted, are they free to leave their unbelieving spouse, since the "Lord has not joined them together?"

Marriage is binding, whether you are a Christian or not. And whether your spouse is a Christian or not.

MsBrattfield.. the scriptures disagree with you...

Paul taught that "if the unebelieving depart, let them depart, the believing spouse is no longer bound to them"

Nina,, please quit going in circles. I have no idea what your after????? I have given all Iknow to give... we believe in ONE WIFE>>.. what more are you digging for?

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Dr. Vaughn

MsBrattfield.. the scriptures disagree with you...

Paul taught that "if the unebelieving depart, let them depart, the believing spouse is no longer bound to them"

The scriptures don't disagree with me, other than to say that the believer should "let them depart." How does that imply that the believer isn't bound to the marriage unless and until the unbelieving spouse leaves them?

The marriage is still binding, unless and until the unbeliever departs.

Do sinners who are converted have to remarry, in order for God to recognize their union?

[Nina]

Originally Posted by Dr. Vaughn

Nina,, please quit going in circles. I have no idea what your after????? I have given all Iknow to give... we believe in ONE WIFE>>.. what more are you digging for?

I thought the Branhamites had a doctrine called the rib doctrine that enabled You to divorce a wife who wasn't Your true "rib".

I apologize if I have confused You.

Nina

[MissBrattified]

I Corinthians 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

I Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.


I Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

I Corinthians 7:13 And the woman which hath a husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

It sounds to me like God wants these couples to remain together if at all possible, in spite of the fact that one is an unbeliever.

BUT IF THEY DEPART.... you wanna tell us the rest of it?

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Dr. Vaughn

BUT IF THEY DEPART.... you wanna tell us the rest of it?

I know the rest of it, Dr. Vaughn. I don't leave out scripture for my convenience. I was including the part YOU left out.

It says, "Let them depart." But the fact that God wanted them to stay together if at all possible points to His recognition of their union, don't you think? Otherwise, God would be commanding believers to be in fornication.

Nina, if you want to read some of the shocking and horrid teachings of William Branham, start here:

Marriage & Divorce, by William Branham

Here's a quote to get you started:

"...Now, you see the Nicolaitanes; you see their doctrine; you see the teenage queens they call them, these stripteases out on the street. Used to have to go to some vulgar show on the side to see a striptease. Just open your eyes, look out on the street. That's all you have to do now. The whole thing's a striptease. Sure. What do they do it for? To tantalize, tempt; that's the only thing she can do it for. She does it because she's filthy. She does it because she's made that way. She don't realize that she's a instrument in the hands of Satan. That's what she is.
Even in our schools today they're teaching sex acts. Our rotten world of woman worship... I know they don't want to believe that. Stand and sing some kind of hymn, and so forth, on one day and out with women, running around all night long... See? All right. When in God's sight, the Word, she is the lowest of all animals that God put on the earth..." --William Branham

In the state that he's referencing her... stripping and seducing men... he was exactly right.. in that form she is the lowest creature on earth.......

Just read Proverbs to find out the same thing....

but what you failed to quote from Bro. Branham.. and its sooo sad

"a sanctified woman, a godly woman in her home, loving her husband and her children, no greater jewel in the earth than a spirit filled woman"

it's amazing when people are honest and quote BOTH sides of the equation how the true balance can be found...

Do you not agree.. that a woman using her body to seduce a married man away from him family is the lowest creature on earth..... if you don't I know lots of women who WOULD agree

[MissBrattified]

Here are some more quotes that might be pertinent to the thread at hand:

"Notice, He can put her away, but she cannot put Him away. He did it, and proved it in the days when Luther, Wesley, and in Pentecost, when they refused to become the further part of Him by having spiritual sexual affair to become pregnated with further part of the Word. You understand? She refused... The Lutheran church refused for Christ to have any more desire with her. Luther refused it. And let me say this (going to call me something anyhow), so is it today with every one of them. They fail to take that Word. They refuse Christ. And any woman that refuses a man his child, has no right to be a wife to him. Amen.
You remember in the Bible when the king married Esther because the queen refused. He just got him another one. And when the... What happened when she refused to come out with the king, to obey him? The same thing it is with a woman that refuses to be wife to her husband." --William Branham

45-2 "This is an awful strong thing. I didn't know how to bring it out. What'll I do when I got men and women setting in my congregation, some that's been married twice or three times? Good men, good women, all mixed up, what done it? False teaching. Exactly, not waiting on the Lord. "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder..." Not what man joined together, what God joined together.
When you got a direct revelation from God that's your wife and the same thing, that's yours the rest of your life. See? But what man joins together anybody can put apart. But what God joins together no man better dare to touch it. "Whatsoever God joins together," He said, "let no man put asunder." Not what some half-drunk magistrate, or something else put together, or some backslidden preacher with a bunch of creeds in a book that'd let them do anything in the world and the Word of God laying right there. See? I'm talking about what God joined together."