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What the Bible teaches about divorce and separation, handled honestly.
A Beit Din of Torah-keeping elders renders public judgment in the matter of Scott Smith v. Christianna Renae Byrd and Grant Easter. After roughly 200 hours of investigation, the panel finds Byrd and Easter committed adultery under Leviticus 20:10 and rules on repentance and separation.
What actually constitutes a marriage in Yah’s eyes? No license, officiant, vows, or ceremony appears in the text. Responding to a Christian podcast, this video shows Scripture’s pattern — a man takes a lawfully available woman and she becomes his — versus inherited church tradition.
A Forge Media panel tests Rich Tidwell’s new claims against Torah: a 20-year age requirement for marriage, a sexual rule for plural homes, and a permanent ban on remarriage after divorce. Where YAH is silent, can a teacher legislate sin?
“The two become one flesh, not three or four” is the go-to proof that Jesus banned polygyny. But in Matthew 19 the question was divorce, and “one flesh” means union, not a head count. We trace the phrase through Genesis, Paul, and the prophets.
A close study of how Scripture actually defines adultery. The law in Leviticus 20:10 hinges on a married woman: an adulterer is a man who takes another man’s wife. This “Rosetta Stone” reframes marriage, divorce, and why the laws for man and woman differ.
Have you asked, what is adultery? In truth I would be willing to wager that nearly everyone personally knows someone accused of, or someone who has actually committed adultery at some point in their lives. All sin is terrible, but adultery is one transgression of the law (sin) that is worthy of…
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