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10-07-2011, 08:26 AM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
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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?
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Yes.
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10-07-2011, 08:27 AM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
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?
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Yes.
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10-07-2011, 05:21 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
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?
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OK,...(just thinking here,..) so to those who answered "yes"....
does that mean that everything is back to being "peachy-keen",..and he gets to carry on with his life and his ministry as before? (food for thought here,...)...what's your take on this?
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10-07-2011, 05:50 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
This is one of the many places the bible teaching is explained away.
Mar 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Point blank. Period. End of story.
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10-07-2011, 06:01 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
1) If the wife stays, He has a right to Divorce.
A) He is the Husband of one wife.
2) If he strays, he has not right to Divorce. That is given to the wife.
A) He has sinned and should be restored if repentance and open confession has been made.
The "husband of one wife" is not referring to marriage and divorce, but about the common practice in ancient times of one man taking multiple wives.
What an organization does about requirements for Marriage and Divorce of pastors, is in itself, just a higher standard set upon ministers. (I see where this thread was going.)
All in all, Jesus said that if you divorce, you do not have the spirit of forgiveness; thus you are just as an adulterer yourself. Why, because divorce was given in the Law of Moses out of the hardness of mans heart.
There are a few pastors in the UPC that have been divorced (wives left them) that have never remarried. There are some that have remarried. This discretion was given to the superintendent of that district; not the organization as a whole. Every Man of God should have a "pastor" that they go to in time of need.
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10-07-2011, 06:58 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
He repents and settles with his favorite gal? If he repented he'd still be with his wife.
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10-07-2011, 07:13 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
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Originally Posted by berkeley
He repents and settles with his favorite gal? If he repented he'd still be with his wife.
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..but things get complicated! The wife (having had the right to divorce)...moves on. She doesn't want him back (trust has been totally broken). Or, perhaps she felt she was the one who had the right to remarry, and did so. So just as in real life,...things become horribly complicated and sticky. What was that saying?...."You can't un-scramble an egg"?
EDIT: Perhaps it could be like the situation of a particular well-known televangelist of some years ago. After affairs became known,..wife leaves and gets divorce. Afterwards (after he serves his prison term for tax evasion)..he re-marries and re-establishes a new ministry. Has a fairly modest, but good following of his "new" TV ministry.
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10-07-2011, 07:16 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
Unbelieveable some of the stuff on here 
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10-07-2011, 07:22 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
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Originally Posted by hawks-cry
..but things get complicated! The wife (having had the right to divorce)...moves on. She doesn't want him back (trust has been totally broken). Or, perhaps she felt she was the one who had the right to remarry, and did so. So just as in real life,...things become horribly complicated and sticky. What was that saying?...."You can't un-scramble an egg"?
EDIT: Perhaps it could be like the situation of a particular well-known televangelist of some years ago. After affairs became known,..wife leaves and gets divorce. Afterwards (after he serves his prison term for tax evasion)..he re-marries and re-establishes a new ministry. Has a fairly modest, but good following of his "new" TV ministry.
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None of that was a part of the scenario.
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10-07-2011, 08:30 PM
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Re: The Husband Of One Wife
So, the one and only qualification to be in leadership and ministry is repentance?
Husband of one wife? Means only one at a time...
Pastor turns serial killer? No problem - if repented.
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