Covenant Reformed News – April 2006, Volume X, Issue 24
This article from Covenant Reformed News addresses the biblical prohibition against remarriage while a spouse is living, arguing that marriage is an inviolable creation ordinance binding on both believers and unbelievers alike. The author contends that remarriage under such circumstances constitutes continuous adultery and appeals to God's sovereign grace given to the elect to remain unmarried or seek reconciliation, supporting this position with extensive New Testament citations and theological reasoning about the nature of marriage and divine ordinances.
Married to an Unbeliever (2) There is another argument, not mentioned in the last News, which is used by some professing Christians in favour of remarriage. “But when I divorced, I was an unbeliever,” they protest, or, “But when I remarried, I was an unbeliever,” as if their unbelief at that time enabled them to remarry while their spouse is living. However, marriage is a creation ordinance; it is not a sacrament, something only for the church. Marriage was in the world before the fall and...