If you had known Donna was divorced, would you have chosen to date her?

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

My best friend, after I was born again, was a woman who had been raised Baptist.  She married a man whose wife had died.  He was looking for a woman to date at their church group, with the intention of possible marriage.  He picked out two women to date.  And he chose Donna.  
 
At first Donna didn't tell Hal that she was divorced.  
 
Hal fell in love with Donna and married her.  
 
After I met them, I asked Hal, "If you had known Donna was divorced, would you have dated her?"  Hal thought about this and then replied, "No ... I don't believe I would have."  
 
(At some point before they married, Donna told Hal she was divorced.  Hal married Donna anyway.)
 
In the days that Hal was a young man, the churches were still teaching that the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery, as Jesus says in the Bible.
 
Mt. 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
 
I've been a born again Christian since 1975 and I've never heard Matthew 5:32 taught at any church that I have attended.
 
Both the Catholic and Protestant churches taught against divorce and remarriage, in most cases, in the 1940's, but this doctrine was changed in many of these churches in the future generations.
 
Edward, king of England, renounced the throne of England in order to marry a divorced woman in 1936.  The people in the church of England were being taught against marrying a divorced woman.  They would not permit a divorced woman to be queen of England at that time.  Now they have eliminated that scripture in their doctrine in England.
 
Once a man who identified himself as a pastor came to me to talk about his divorce and his desire to remarry.  
 
I asked him if his wife, whom he divorced, was unfaithful.  He said no.  I told pastor the only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife was if she was unfaithful.  If the faithful wife remarries after her husband divorces her, she will commit adultery and the husband who divorced the faithful wife will be the "cause" of her adultery, and the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.  (according to Mt. 5:32)
 
A few weeks later, this pastor called me and asked me if there had been any change in doctrine concerning divorce and remarriage.
 
I said to this pastor, "So far as I know, the Bible has not been rewritten."
 
In the Bible, God's rules differ for men and for women.  
 
In this Podcast, I will share these scriptures showing these differences.
 
The only thing that matters about this is what God says.
 

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