Can a divorced man be voted in as a deacon in the Baptist church?

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  by Answers101 on July 19th, 2006

• Yes, if he is divorced his wife because she commited adultry and hasnt married again, he is still within scriptural law, and therefore can be a deacon.

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  by guitarman18 on November 20th, 2006

• if she committed adultary he can remarry, but only in adultary or death is it accepted

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  by medicgirl on July 28th, 2008

• The qualifications are for polygamy and bigamy not divorced. To deny a divorced man from severing the Lord and the church as a deacon is sin and Baptists have been guilty of this for along time. Here is the support for my statement: Ask yourself as the Pharisee's did of Jesus, does God hate divorce...the answer is of course, yes! Then ask the question does God permit divorce...the answer once again is yes, under certain circumstances as stated above...now ask why? Two reasons, Jer. 3:8 records the words of the Lord by which he states himself that he has issued a "Bill of Divorcement" against His people Israel for their spiritual adultery and harlotry. In Ezra 10 God requires his people to "put away" their wives of foreign lands, why to purify His people. So, using the Baptist logic that man is no longer qualified to be a deacon or a pastor because of a divorce even for permitted reasons, that would mean that Baptists consider God no longer qualified to be God...doesn't make sense does it. God is the creator, we are the created and of course he is qualified to be God, and so are divorced men to be deacons and pastors. Next, if God, as He said in his own words, issued a "Bill of Divorcement", would He really require us His created to live by a higher standard than He? Of course not! Then you can come to the interpretation of vs. 12 of 1 Timothy 3.

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  by Chappy on February 20th, 2011