No. 1645:
Program leader Visjon Norge has remarried as a believer after a divorce before she came to Jesus, is this in accordance with scripture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvoatplLN1k
https://idag.no/etter-et-sterkt-mote-med-gud-fikk-liv-sovde-kallevigs-liv-en-helt-ny-retning/19.41235
There are different opinions about whether it is permissible for someone to become a believer.
If the person has been married as a non-believer.
IS IT THEN PERMITTED FOR HIM/HER TO THEN MARRY AS A BELIEVER?
WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?
Does a marriage entered into as a pagan apply?
This is not an easy question to answer. Because it is complicated and not straightforward.
But the word of God, rather than the Apostle Paul's subving.
Is very clear, simple and without misunderstandings!
To start with the clear in the word of God, which says that remarriage for believers is exclusive.
Only death is allowed for remarriage.
That is the starting point for everything.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2019/07/nr-2490-teolog-og-bibellrer-yvind.html
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2014/01/nr-745-en-mann-en-kvinne-en-pakt-ett.html
1 Cor. 7. 10 To the married I command in the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband.
11 But if she departs, let her either remain abstinent or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not leave his wife.
Rom 7. 2 A woman who has a husband is bound to him, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
3 If her husband lives and she marries another, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law of her husband, and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
It is said, there is no rule without exception.
So it is also here with remarriage.
As the scripture, especially the Apostle Paul teaches about this.
The Gentile Apostle had a clear teaching about this.
Who is given permission and permission for remarriage as a believer?
No one?
There is no permission for remarriage for believers who are married as Christians.
Remarriage here is and remains to be against the word of God and the will of God.
1.) 1 Cor. 12 To the rest I say by the Lord: If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13 In the same way, she who has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, should not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by her husband. Otherwise, their children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
15 But if the unbelieving one wishes to depart, let him depart. No one is under bondage in such cases, for God has called us to peace.
16 For how does the wife know whether she will save her husband, or the husband whether he will save his wife?
If a couple have married unbelievers. Where one becomes a believer.
Then the believer should remain in the marriage.
But if the unbeliever does not wish to remain, then the believer is free.
Free to remarry. This is the first “clause” for remarriage.
2.) 1 Thess. 4. 1 Furthermore, brothers, we urge and exhort you by the Lord Christ, just as you received from us how you ought to live and please God, that you would live even more abundantly.
2 And you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 This is the will of God for you: your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.
4 Each one of you should know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not in passionate lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
Paul is saying here about unbelievers, they find their spouses through passionate lust. So they should not be among us believers.
The starting point for a right marriage is only and only this is among believers.
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2015/04/nr-1087-det-gamle-livet-ligger-bak-da.html
https://blog.janchristensen.net/2015/03/nr-1086-alt-det-en-gjr-fr-en-blir.html
Does the Program Manager in Visjon Norge have the right to enter into a new marriage after she has come to faith?
Since she is divorced as a non-believer?
What does the Apostle Paul say on this subject?
Jesus preached to the Jews, the same as the Apostle Peter.
Here it is Paul who applies!
How are our lives before we come to faith?
The Apostle Paul speaks of us being in darkness.
We are in Satan's kingdom.
Satan is the prince of this world.
We are dead in our sins and transgressions.
The life and the choices we make are thus controlled by Satan all too often.
Then Paul is clear that one starts all over again.
As if one has never lived, made any mistakes.
At the same time, from the day one accepts Jesus.
One is responsible for one's deeds.
One does not just start over.
But one enters into a relationship of responsibility to God that one did not have before.
As I understand the scripture, Program Manager in Vision Norway Liv Søvde Kallevig is free to remarry!
If she had been divorced as a Christian, she is not free.
Since this happened while she was living as a non-believer, the conditions are completely different.
Here are some scriptures that show the nne enormous contrast it is to be an unbeliever versus a believer.
Col. 1. 13 He has delivered us from the powers of darkness, and will bring us into his kingdom through the love of his Son.
Eph. 2. 1 You too were dead in your trespasses and sins.
2 For you also lived in time past according to the spirit of this world, according to the prince of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.
3 You also also lived in time past in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires and minds of the flesh. You were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest of us were.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy and with his great love for us,
5 And you, who were dead in trespasses, are made alive in Christ, for by his grace you are saved.
1 Tim. 5. 6 But he who lives in pleasure is dead while he lives.
1930 translation 1 Tim. 5. 6 but he who lives according to his desires is dead alive.
The apostle Paul who preached more severely than anyone.
At the same time was gentler than anyone?
Wrote this.
2 Cor. 5. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!
18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 Therefore we are Christ's representatives, as though God were making an appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf, ‘Be reconciled to God!’
21 He made him** to be sin who knew no sin, so that the righteousness of God might be made.
Then as an unbeliever, nothing is imputed to it in the same way into the new life.
This is what the Apostle Paul taught us.
The Apostle Paul was the one who was to complete the word of God.
There is no new revelation, what is given. It is given to us.
For teaching, encouragement and imitation.
Col. 1. 25 Of whom I became a servant according to the stewardship which God gave me to fulfill the word of God.
26 In which is also the mystery which has been hidden from the generations for ages, but has now been revealed to the saints.