A question about adultery

Jesus said to the adulteress, go and sin no more. There is a difference between a sinful act and a sinful lifestyle. What Christian is totally innocent of offences stated in 1 Corinthians 6:9? I've made a false claim on my tax return a few times, until I realised that it was sin. I idolised my children. I did not realise this until my marriage broke up and I did not see them for 15 years. Paul is warning those who think that we are forgiven so it's ok to sin. Sin does not prevent us going to heaven. That is settled the moment that we are born again. If we choose to live in sin, that disqualifies us from the Kingdom of God.

God does not expect us to be instantly perfect. He does want us to choose to be free and clean. As we seek that freedom, He will bring it to pass. It can be a painful process and it will take a lifetime. Holiness perfection is not available in this lifetime. However, we should be different after 20 years or so. If we are unchanged, it is time to do some soul searching.

There are not different kinds of adultery. It is fascinating to me that by the time of King David, it seemed that at least some of the penalties for breaking the Law were not enforced. David should have been killed for two crimes, adultery and murder. Yet God let him escape. Even in the OT, mercy prevailed over justice. And it was Bathsheba's son who ascended to the throne.

Having said all that, God also knows the motivations of the heart. The true hardliners say that the divorced should never remarry. I do not believe that God punishes the innocent along with the guilty. And adultery is not the unforgiveable sin. What man has never looked at a woman without lust? Not all women are innocent in this regard either, especially in the western world.

It's a vexed issue that I know too well myself. I was divorced in 1995 and I remarried last year. It helps to remember that God forgets when He forgives. That is not a licence to sin, but it is grace to get our lives back on the right track. Hopefully, we learn from our failures and so do not repeat them.

The law says the punishment for adultery is death. Moses gave reasons for divorce and remarriage. Jesus said "It was because of the hardiness of your hearts" Jesus called divorce and remarriage adultery, but never called for any punishment. Are there different types of adultery. It seems the two are treated differently.

Polygamy was completely fine in Jewish culture. Moses, Abraham, David, Joash, and Solomon all had many wives.

The law says the punishment for adultery is death. Moses gave reasons for divorce and remarriage. Jesus said "It was because of the hardiness of your hearts" Jesus called divorce and remarriage adultery, but never called for any punishment. Are there different types of adultery? It seems the two are treated differently.

Look up Hebrews 8:12.

I wonder about the "completely" part. Honouring the wife of your youth
would not include inviting another woman into the marriage bed.

totally true. it's quite weird how the Jews are the chosen people but still today, there are a lot of atheistic Jews, some believe in God but not Jesus, some believe in God & the Holy Spirit but not Jesus! i find it unbelievable.

It is fascinating to me that by the time of King David, it seemed that at least some of the penalties for breaking the Law were not enforced. David should have been killed for two crimes, adultery and murder. Yet God let him escape. Even in the OT, mercy prevailed over justice. And it was Bathsheba's son who ascended to the throne.

The law says the punishment for adultery is death. Moses gave reasons for divorce and remarriage. Jesus said "It was because of the hardiness of your hearts" Jesus called divorce and remarriage adultery, but never called for any punishment. Are there different types of adultery. It seems the two are treated differently.

Jesus also said " if you look at a women with lust in your eye you have committed adultery in your heart".

takes things to a different level....

Jesus is telling us what will end sexual lusts hold on mankind’s heart and mind and keep us from ever wanting or desiring to commit sexual sins like fornication

moses is just telling sinners not to sin and identifying what it is and it’s result of death

jesus is telling us how to overcome sins snare within our mind and heart if we take control of our trout and where we allow our mind and heart to dwell we can overcome sins dominion over us and it’s deception in us

We can’t overcome by Will power but by letting Jesus teach us how to overcome sins effective grasp on man

like David remember David began to look and peer at Bathsheba naked and began to think about and desire for her , he then began to covet her sexually in his mind and then her husband was away he sent for her called her to his chambers and committed adultery with her impregnating another honorable Israelite man’s wife .

This then led David to begin to deceive and plot trying to cover his transgression and trick Uriah into believing it was his child but Uriah stays to his duties d doesn’t go in with his wife do David’s scheme at deception fails then he plots to kill Uriah so everyone won’t discover his transgression of adultery (a sin of death )
then he leaves Uriah alone by his own command on the front of battle with no help assuring his death


imagine if David nipped it in the bud and when he saw Bathsheba the first time what if he turned away his eyes and refused to look upon other man’s wife’s nakedness ? What if David ended it in his mind when it could be conceived or cast out ?

eould david had still followed the sinful course of actions to cover his sins if he would have refused to look at another’s spouse as he did and began to lust ?

Jesus is teaching us how to overcome sinful living by teaching us the spiritual inner things like don’t let your mind and heart be filled with sinful desires not only sexual but many things are sinful we shouldn’t let those things dwell in our minds but rather Gods word the gospel belongs written all over the walls of our mind

and can become like our inner compass that keeps us on the right paths

what about in Revelation where Jesus punished Jezebel with the death of her children...and the mother of harlots of Babylon

David WAS punished, the child he had with Bathesheba died soon after birth. David repented though and then did marry Bathesheba and then had Solomon. He didnt leave Bathsheba unmarried. I am not sure what they would have done had Uriah not been killed though. Bathsheba would have been found out and stoned most probably.

The children of adultery -illegitimate, or what used to be called bastards...do not have a blessing on their lives and often their lives are cut short because of this. Abortions often happen because of adultery tho nobody seems to mention this....

Divorce is not adultery.

Divorce causes the woman to commit adultery because she has no Husband and is married. As far as God is concerned, she was married, and so was he. Yet if the man divorces his wife, HE causes her to commit adultery. Jesus said in Matthew 19:3-9




3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”


If there was no sexual immorality, there is no grounds for divorce Yet it did happen because of the hardness of man's heart.

The woman is forced into adultery because she had no man and is no longer a virgin; she was a wife. How can she return to good standing with the community and God when one, she is not a virgin and not married, two has no status or representative on her behalf, and three cannot worship in the temple.
She is forced to 1. remarry 2. become a prostitute. 3. be stoned and removed.

Nope....again confusion created because of the mistranslation.

If you married a put away wife she is not divorced and you are committing adultery. A put away wife is not divorced....and the husband doesn't have to give her the dowry her father gave him. Because she could live off that money. However if you legally married another woman even if you have a put away wife it was not violating the law.

The child is with the LORD. David said.....The child will not come to me, but one day I will be with the child.

Nope....again confusion created because of the mistranslation.

If you married a put away wife she is not divorced and you are committing adultery. A put away wife is not divorced....and the husband doesn't have to give her the dowry her father gave him. Because she could live off that money. However if you legally married another woman even if you have a put away wife it was not violating the law.

That's not what Jesus said it's your issue with he His words, not mine.




3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”