What Came First, The Divorce or The Repudiation?
In addition, another argument for a second divorce (repudiation) is to divert the discussion into defining the Greek word(s) translated divorce. In this effort, the desire is to also ignore the first divorce as if it never happened. However, when one acknowledges the biblical truth that an innocent person may really be what Jesus calls put away (and thus bound by the only available options of reconciliation or remaining unmarried, I Cor. 7:11), the argument of a simple sending away repudiation versus the civil procedure becomes pointless. Those who civilly put away have already sent away or repudiated their spouse. Hence, even the minimal procedure advocated by the errorists has been perpetrated against the innocent mate prior to the civil procedure. Jesus called both the unlawful action of putting away (in Mt. 5:32a; 19:9a and Lk. 16:18a) and the person who is put away (in Mt. 5:32b; 19:9b and Lk. 16:18b), apoluo. Jesus also said that it is the person who is the apoluo recipient (acco
