“And if a woman divorces her husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.”
-Mark 10:12, NLT
Unless a biblical exception is met (like your now ex-spouse cheated on you), this holds true in a spiritual sense. The remarriage is adultery in God’s eyes.
It ought not to surprise us, though, this does not deter many cheaters from remarrying. Why would it? They already committed adultery at least once before.
What is more confounding is fellow Christians celebrating this remarriage, though. Do they not understand that they are celebrating sin?!
I understand they want the cheater to be happy. They likely treat history as history. Most likely, they have decided to consider the history as irrelevant to this moment.
Yet how do they deal with Jesus’ own words on the matter knowing their “friend” cheated in her ending of her first marriage? Do they not consider the spiritual problem this new relationship poses for their “friend’s” soul?
Do not envy a cheater remarrying.
Their character did not undergo a miraculous transformation, most likely. They are still bringing their dysfunction into this new relationship–whether or not they advertise this to the world. You cannot out run or marry off your own character problems.
The foundation cracks might be plastered over now. However, time and real life stresses have a way of exposing those fissures. They have to be dealt with one way or another. We–in a sense–ought to pity the foolish person jumping into a new relationship with them.
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I do pity the person who married my ex. Though, I wonder if she cheated on her former husband with my ex. (My ex and the mistress broke up so he had to find someone else…she was living with my ex while her divorce was happening with her ex-husband). So, maybe she brought the mess on herself instead of being an innocent woman.
I do wonder if being an unbeliever at the time of the divorce and remarriage makes a difference. I’m glad I’m not married to him anymore and I wanted God to bring him some justice for his actions. But, I wouldn’t want him to go to hell either.