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WHAT IS “ADULTERY? ” “So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man” (Romans 7: 3) By Tim Haile “Neither Biblical passage nor lexical definition describes sexual activity between a married couple as adultery. ” – Jerry Bassett, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage: An Exposition of the Scriptures, p. 2 “Blindness to context keeps too many brethren stumbling in the dark bent on sundering ‘adulterous marriages’ – the term itself an oxymoron. ” Ibid. , p. 5 “Again, ‘adulterous marriage’ is an oxymoron. ” Ibid. , p. 27

WHAT IS “ADULTERY? ” JOHN 8: 3 -4 3. “The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, 4. “They said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. ” (NASB) By Tim Haile LEVITICUS 20: 10 "If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. ” JEREMIAH 29: 23 “Because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness, " declares the LORD. '"

WHAT IS “ADULTERY? ” JEREMIAH 3: 8 -9 “And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. “Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land committed adultery with stones and trees” (NASB) EZEKIEL 23: 37 “For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food. ” PROVERBS 6: 32 “The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense. ” (NASB) “Non Sexual Covenant Breaking? ” By Tim Haile

WHAT IS “ADULTERY? ” ü Made Physically Attractive ü Committed Adultery “With” ü Sex Act (2 Sam. 12: 24; Gen. 29: 23, 30; 38: 2, 16) EZEKIEL 23: 40 -47 40. “Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came -- for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments; 41. “and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil. 42. “The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43. “Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, "Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus? ' 44. “But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45. “But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands. 46. “For thus says the Lord GOD, "Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder. 47. “The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. ”(NASB) By Tim Haile

WHAT IS “ADULTERY? ” REVELATION 2: 22 "Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. ”NASB HEBREWS 13: 4 “Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; fornicators and adulterers God will judge. ” MATTHEW 5: 27 -28 27. “You have heard that it was said, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY'; 28. “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ” (NASB) 2 PETER 2: 14 “Having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children; ”(NASB) By Tim Haile

Where Is Don Bassett In All of This? “I served as a proofreader and consultant for Rethinking and now have done the same for this book and also contributed a brief article to it. I would have been glad to do this for any dedicated, well-prepared writer on this important subject. But the fact that I am in essential agreement with the conclusions drawn in both of these books has made the work particularly gratifying. I am happy to commend this next publication to every sincere student of God’s word. ” Don Bassett, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage: An Exposition of the Scriptures, Back Cover. By Tim Haile

“But, He’s Only ‘Off’ On One Thing!” ü Hymenaeus & Philetus “Only Off On One Thing” (Resurrection) (2 Tim. 2: 17 -18) ü Apollos “Only Off On One Thing” (Baptism) (Acts 18: 25) ü Peter “Only Off On One Thing” (Hypocrisy) (Gal. 2: 11 -14) ü Ananias & Sapphira “Only Off On One Thing” (Lying) (Acts 5: 1 -11) ü Corinthian Fornicator “Only Off On One Thing” (Sexual Immorality) (1 Cor. 5: 1) By Tim Haile

How Many “Things” Must One Be “Off” On In Order To Be Wrong? ü Timothy to “Charge some that they teach no other doctrine” (1 Tim. 1: 3) ü One is Condemned “If he teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Tim. 6: 3) ü Elders To Rebuke Those Who “Contradict” Sound Doctrine (Titus 1: 9) ü Mouths to be stopped, among those who “teach things which they ought not” (Tit. 1: 11; 2: 1) ü “Mark” Those Who Teach “Contrary” to the “Doctrine that you have Learned” (Rom. 16: 17) ü Reject those who “bring not the doctrine of Christ” (2 John 9 -11) By Tim Haile

Are The Bassett’s Really “Only Off On One Thing? ” ü They Are Off On the Law - By Bridging ALL of Christ’s MDR Teaching (i. e. Mark 10: 2 -12) to Deuteronomy 24: 1 -4, then Bridging 1 Corinthians 7: 10 -11 to Both, They Seek Justification From The O. T. for Modern[Unscriptural] Marriages! (Gal. 5: 4) ü They Are Off On Repentance - By Teaching That Adulterers May Continue In Their [Unlawful] Marriages, They Nullify The Requirements of Biblical Repentance ü They Are Off On Baptism – By Making it a License to Continue in a [Sinful] Practice ü They Are Off On SEVERAL Facets Of Divorce and Remarriage! By Tim Haile