QUESTION: If a Christian man divorces his wife and impregnates a second woman, can he continue with the second woman in order to keep her and the child from suffering?
ANSWER: No! The man (and the woman) would be continuing in adultery! Paul says in Galatians 5:19-21, that those who do “such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God .” It appears that the idea of “keeping the woman and the child from suffering” is just an attempt to make sin beautiful! If this man is truly concerned about the woman, he will sever (cut off) the relationship with her, lest she (and he) live an eternity suffering in hell! That this one cannot scripturally continue with the woman, however, does not mean that the sinner has no responsibility to the woman and the child he fathered! Indeed, he does! In I Timothy 5:8, we learn that one who does not provide for his own “hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel!”