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(Cont. from Page
23/7/92A).
THE NEW LAW
OF THE CHRIST.
The Christ said: "Do not think
I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I came, not to destroy, but to fulfil". (Matt 5:17). The Christ instituted refinements to the Mosaic
Law after Jehovah found fault with the people under the old covenant who failed
to become a holy nation on earth. An example of this is that while Jehovah
initially permitted a man to give a woman a certificate of divorce for his
wife's shameful conduct and allowed her to remarry, under the new covenant by
His Christ there is no such allowance for remarriage if one's spouse is still alive.
(Rom 7:1-3. Deut 24:1-4. 1 Cor 7:39).
TO PROVE THE
SCRIPTURAL
CORRECTNESS OF THIS LAST POINT:
If it were still true that a wife's
indecency is a legitimate reason for a husband to obtain and issue a certificate
of divorce to his wife, how is it he "involves her in adultery"
by doing so? (Matt 5:32 NEB). Or as in
the Moffatt Translation: "makes her an adulteress"? Or as the New World Translation
says: "However, I say to you that everyone
divorcing his wife, except on account of fornication, makes her a subject for
adultery, seeing that whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." (Matt 5:32. Subject Index: Adultery).
These
translations do not say he is making her known as the subject of
(the victim of) adultery, but say, "a subject for adultery",
or "involves her in adultery". So the general
meaning is that there is no allowance for divorce except on the grounds of
fornication. If a certificate is granted, then in relation to the dissolution of
their marriage the husband issuing his wife a certificate of divorce is by that
means declaring his wife guilty of adultery.
THOSE FALSELY
APPOINTING
THEMSELVES AS KEEPERS OF GOD'S LAW:
Sectarian religions falsely claim to
be followers of The Christ, and so allow many more grounds for divorce, and many
members of their congregations even remarry. But those giving licence to unscriptural grounds for divorce under the auspices of being so-called church
'elders' are guilty of leading others
into sin and transgressing against the Law of God themselves.
23/7/92B.
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