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About Tom Smith
Expertise
I am able to answer questions regading doctrines and movements within the Pentecostal churches, including Word-Faith, Laughter and others.

Experience
I have attended Pentecostal churches in the past and previously a member of a church council, as well as missions coordinator. Have studied and researched various movements for several years and maintain a website on this topic.

Publications
http://discern.athome.to

Education/Credentials
B.A.Sc (Electrical Engineering)

I have been saved through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, and believe in the truth of God's Holy word in the Bible as the inerrant and infallible word of God. I have been a believer for over 42 years. Other qualifications include:

- Former member of the counil of a local church
- Speaker at the "Last Days Bible Conference" and other functions.
- Researcher into religious movements and cults (maintain website with information on some of these movements and cults)
- Member of the Apologetics Coordination Team

I hold to the view that the Bible is inerrant and infallible, and I belief that the Bible is our sole authority on matters of faith and doctrine (Sola Scripture, Sola Fide).

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Pentecostals - divorce/remarriage

Expert: Tom Smith - 11/5/2009

Question
Am I going to hell because I got remarried after a divorce to a Christian man and there was no adultary committed by my ex husband.I am being told by some that I am.I have asked Gods forgiveness for my past marriage and renounced it and was told by the Christian preacher who remarried me that I was forgiven and the past was thrown into the sea of forgetfulness.Other people tell me that although it is not Gods perfect will it is His permissive will and as such I am not doomed to hell.Please help as I have literally had a nervous breakdown over this. I love my new husbnad very much and we are committed until death do us part. HELP~!

Answer
I could get into what scripture has to say about divorce and remarriage, but that does not seem to be the key issue here. The key issue is what would cause one to go to hell, so that is what I will focus on.

The first thing to realize is that everyone has sinned:

Rom 3:23-24
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
NKJV

1 John 1:7-9
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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And the wages of sin (all sin) is death:

Rom 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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So anyone who sins is destined for hell, and according to the scripture given above, we have all sinned therefore everyone is destined for hell.

The only way out is to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, and the result of that is:

1 John 1:9-10
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NKJV

John 6:37
37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
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So if anyone in truth receives Jesus Christ as Saviour, then they will not go to hell. It is as simple as that. So the bottom line in knowing whether you or anyone is destined for hell is to know if that person has received Jesus as Lord and Saviour. The question about divorce and remarriage is not relevant in determining whether a persons goes to hell or not.

Does that mean that we can do whatever we want if we are saved? Paul dealt with that question also:

Rom 6:1-14
6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
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In summary, whether or not you go to hell has less to do with your divorce and remarriage than whether you have been saved from your sins by receiving Jesus as Saviour. Only you and God know the answer to that.

Tom
http://discern.ca

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