WHAT IS

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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.
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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 73)
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WHAT IS ADULTERY?
LEVITICUS 2010 "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 2923 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.'"
JOHN 83-4 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)
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WHAT IS ADULTERY?
EZEKIEL 2337 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 632
The one who commits adultery with a woman is
lacking sense. (NASB)
JEREMIAH 38-9 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
and committed adultery with stones and trees
(NASB)
Non Sexual Covenant Breaking?
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WHAT IS ADULTERY?

• Made Physically Attractive
• Committed Adultery With
• Sex Act (2 Sam. 1224 Gen. 2923,30 382,16)

EZEKIEL 2340-47 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)
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WHAT IS ADULTERY?
MATTHEW 527-28 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
214 Having eyes full of adultery that never
cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a
heart trained in greed, accursed children(NASB)

REVELATION 222 "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 134 Marriage
is to be held in honor among all, and the
marriage bed is to be undefiled for fornicators
and adulterers God will judge.
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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 Gods
word. Don Bassett, Marriage, Divorce and
Remarriage An Exposition of the Scriptures, Back
Cover.
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But, Hes Only Off On One Thing!

• Hymenaeus Philetus Only Off On One Thing
  (Resurrection) (2 Tim. 217-18)
• Apollos Only Off On One Thing (Baptism) (Acts
  1825)
• Peter Only Off On One Thing (Hypocrisy) (Gal.
  211-14)
• Ananias Sapphira Only Off On One Thing
  (Lying) (Acts 51-11)
• Corinthian Fornicator Only Off On One Thing
  (Sexual Immorality) (1 Cor. 51)

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How Many Things Must One Be Off On In Order
To Be Wrong?

• Timothy to Charge some that they teach no other
  doctrine (1 Tim. 13)
• One is Condemned If he teaches otherwise and
  does not consent to wholesome words, even the
  words of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Tim. 63)
• Elders To Rebuke Those Who Contradict Sound
  Doctrine (Titus 19)
• Mouths to be stopped, among those who teach
  things which they ought not (Tit. 111 21)
• Mark Those Who Teach Contrary to the
  Doctrine that you have Learned (Rom. 1617)
• Reject those who bring not the doctrine of
  Christ (2 John 9-11)

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Are The Bassetts Really Only Off On One Thing?

• They Are Off On the Law - By Bridging ALL of
  Christs MDR Teaching (i.e. Mark 102-12) to
  Deuteronomy 241-4, then Bridging 1 Corinthians
  710-11 to Both, They Seek Justification From The
  O.T. for ModernUnscriptural Marriages! (Gal.
  54)
• They Are Off On Repentance - By Teaching That
  Adulterers May Continue In Their Unlawful
  Marriages, They Nullify The Requirements of
  Biblical Repentance
• They Are Off On Baptism By Making it a License
  to Continue in a Sinful Practice
• They Are Off On SEVERAL Facets Of Divorce and
  Remarriage!

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