The Lord says, "May the marriage bed be blessed" so let's count on the blessings of the Lord and not the blessings of the government on our marriages. Let's celebrate our freedom to marry without government intrusion, legally! It was Jesus who said, "What God has joined let no man separate" and in fact, no man other than a husband has the authority to divorce according to the Bible. Only a Bill of Divorcement, so deemed by the man giving it, is valid. And that Bill of Divorcement must be given under no duress. A woman cannot divorce a man according to the Bible. Now, I have a word or two for ministers who continue to acknowledge divorces given by post Christian America judges or any other civil court without the express acknowledgement by the husband. You hypocrites! You accept divorce decrees issued by the courts of post Christian America judges and do not require a Bill of Divorcement from the husband for that divorce to be accepted by your church! Yes! Your ministers accept divorces pronounced by the courts of post Christian America judges for what Jesus said man has nothing to do with. Do you fear losing your precious post Christian America tax deduction if you don't recognize their divorces? The Jews don't fear it, the Roman Catholics don't fear it. Why do our brothers and sisters in other evangelical and fundamentalist churches take no position on the validity of a government divorce decree? We'll look into that on this site. What divorce in the Bible required a civil authority's stamp of approval to be valid? The Bible simply requires that the man "write her a Bill of Divorcement." Now, certainly Jesus clarified that this as not to include any and every reason yet he allowed it for fornication which includes many sins short of adultery. So the requirements to divorce your wife are greater than what a "no-fault" state would require but much less than what some churches claim. So what if you want to divorce your wife quietly and your divorce is biblical? Should you be required to drag your wife through the mud in order to divorce her? No, for the authority to "write her a Bill of Divorcement" is yours. So we have two primary sins going on within the churches concerning marriage. First, the lack of proper record keeping to prevent adultery within our churches. Second, twisting of the Bible to take away the husband's sole authority for divorcing his wife. We will correct those as best we can at this site. We will be launching a database to keep track of marriages so that we can help you in your quest for righteous living. Another word for Evangelicals and Fundamentalists who continue to follow the world; You let pagans tell you how to behave in matters of marriage. You fear your Bible for it tells you the true nature of marriage and the requirements for divorce. Your wives, who rule over you as prophesied in Isaiah 3:12, would not permit you to deny women the ability to divorce their husbands and you therefore allow them to live as adulteresses and be welcomed into your fellowship. They enter new relationships that cannot be called marriages for they have not been given a Bill of Divorcement by their husband. The Bible clearly gives the right of divorcing to a husband and to the husband alone. You fear your wives more than you fear God! Therefore you submit to Rome in all her defilement! Shame! Shame! Shame! Your lack of faith that God can and does join a husband and wife and that only a husband can divorce a wife is demonstrated in your acceptance of civil divorces that don't require a Bill of Divorcement from the husband. Many of you participate in the sins of the cults to justify your condemnation of marriages which God has never condemned!
Forcing monogamy upon laymen is part of a medieval theology based on the traditions of men. Forced celibacy for priests came out of this same medieval tradition. There are three forms of chastity spoken of in the Bible and which are acceptable to this day; celibacy, monogamy, and biblical polygamy (one man married to more than one woman.) Forced monogamy is NOT a Christian belief any more than forced celibacy or forced polygamy would be. We can no longer allow the gospel as taught in the years following the resurrection of our Lord to be overlaid with such medieval traditions as forced monogamy which have the effect of "invalidating the word of God." Mark7:13 We wonder how many other "doctrines of demons" 1Tim4:1-3 continue to be taught in today's so called Bible Believing Churches. Medieval and unbiblical theologies should not be given a place of honor in any church that calls itself Christian. Laymen as well as clergy can no longer be fooled by high sounding titles and degrees into thinking that the traditions of man are taken from the Bible when they are not. We have access to Greek and Hebrew translations of the bible as never before. I myself am a linguist having studied five languages and regularly speak a language not my own. Am I to believe that men who, when going out as missionaries, cannot even learn the native language are more able to understand how to read a Greek or Hebrew dictionary than I am? Am I to believe that a degree in theology makes a man holy? Certainly not. We are not "promoting" polygamy nor discouraging polygamy. We are promoting the completion of the reformation movement and the freedom to marry. For whatever reason, the reformed churches exchanged the tyranny of the Roman church for the tyranny of the state. From that point on the reformed churches accepted the civil authorities' rulings on the validity of marriages and divorces even though Jesus said the state has no such authority. The state's new found authority to rule was absolute and it ruled without regard to scripture and does so to this day. There is no law that says a church must accept the validity of a divorce decree issued by the state nor is there any law that says a church must accept a marriage deemed valid by the state. If a woman seeks fellowship in your church who has gotten a civil divorce but cannot provide from her husband a Bill of Divorcement then we adjure you to pronounce her married and make it clear to her that she cannot remarry and remain within your congregation for she would become an adulteress by remarrying whether the civil authorities consider it valid or not. Tell her to seek reconciliation with her husband or repent and stay single. The civil authorities represent the decaying Roman church insofar as marriage is concerned. The reformers allowed their new found freedom to read the Bible and to live by it to be taken away by the state because penalties would be imposed on them for marrying without the consent of the state. These penalties were imposed at the behest of Rome. Cohabitation with more than one wife is not illegal in most states. Remarrying without a civil divorce is illegal. If you want more than one wife then civilly divorce your current civilly married wife while stating in the divorce decree that the civil divorce in not to be construed as a Bill of Divorcement. You'll then be able to remain married to the current wife and marry the subsequent wife without breaking the law. We adjure you to exercise your freedom to read and declare what the bible says and to live by it. We ask that you participate with us in making sure that the reformation be completed. We are not reliant on the civil authorities to make this happen. We can make it happen ourselves simply by not accepting divorces unless they're accompanied by a valid Bill of Divorcement from the husband. A divorce decree regardless of signatures is NOT a Bill of Divorcement. Adoption is less cruel than abortion but polygamy is the biblical way to give a child a home. Don't remove a child from his mother before giving serious consideration to marrying his mother. If you adopt, be certain the mother really is planning to abandon or abort her child and wouldn't accept polygamy or you're stealing the woman's child! Those of you who represent Christian radio, television, or print ministries please make sure not to violate Matthew 18:15-17. You are required by it to confront me in person if you accuse me of sin, then with witnesses to the alleged sin (Deuteronomy 19:15), and finally before a Christian assembly worthy of wielding its authority over us. If you refuse to confront me according to God's Word you are hypocrites. Click HERE to send this page to a friend!
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