staythecourse
Puritan Board Junior
To Josh
Mr.,
First, thank you for your capable moderating abilities.
To quote your earlier reply:
"...no longer bound" must mean, along with other things, "free to remarry". If it's taken to mean "No longer bound, but only in the narrow sense of financial obligations, etc. and not in the granting of remarriage" then the "innocent" party has not really been freed. No, they must live with the thought that they may not marry another for the rest of their lives, at no fault of their own
My limited Greek forced me to look this up and two different words are used in the same passage: most of use know doulos is "servant" or "slave." Commentators see that Paul says she is not slavishly obligated to try to make this unworkable marriage work and live in a house where there will be no peace for "God has called us to peace." He later uses a different word deditia which means bind but is only used in legal senses by Paul - the lawyer that he is in the NT. So, it apparently would be legal aspects of marriage.
So, loosed from marriage does not mean free to remarry. (Pardon to all divorced people. I'm hashing out who I can marry and what I can tell those I know in similar situations. Bless your patience and know the Lord loves you deeply)
Mr.,
First, thank you for your capable moderating abilities.
To quote your earlier reply:
"...no longer bound" must mean, along with other things, "free to remarry". If it's taken to mean "No longer bound, but only in the narrow sense of financial obligations, etc. and not in the granting of remarriage" then the "innocent" party has not really been freed. No, they must live with the thought that they may not marry another for the rest of their lives, at no fault of their own
My limited Greek forced me to look this up and two different words are used in the same passage: most of use know doulos is "servant" or "slave." Commentators see that Paul says she is not slavishly obligated to try to make this unworkable marriage work and live in a house where there will be no peace for "God has called us to peace." He later uses a different word deditia which means bind but is only used in legal senses by Paul - the lawyer that he is in the NT. So, it apparently would be legal aspects of marriage.
So, loosed from marriage does not mean free to remarry. (Pardon to all divorced people. I'm hashing out who I can marry and what I can tell those I know in similar situations. Bless your patience and know the Lord loves you deeply)