Is Teaching The Truth On Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage The Doctrine of Demons?
Absolutely not!
The doctrine(s) concerning marriage, divorce, and remarriage is part of the doctrine of Christ (Matthew 5:32; 19:3-12; 1 Corinthians 7:10-11; 2 John 1:9-11). Evangelists are obligated to preach the word/doctrine of Christ, including the doctrines that are “out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2-5). To preach no doctrine on marriage, divorce and remarriage or to teach another doctrine other than what Jesus taught concerning marriage, divorce and remarriage is forbidden by God (Galatians 1:6-9). Just as those who live in unions of fornication, homosexuality or polygamy must be warned to repent of their unlawful, ungodly unions, so also those who live in adulterous unions must be warned (1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Colossians 3:5; Matthew 5:31,32; 19:9).
They must show true repentance (Acts 2:38; 17:30), which includes ceasing all unlawful, ungodly unions/marriages, including adulterous unions (which means they must cease/divorce from those unauthorized unions because God never joined them scripturally together, but instead acknowledges them as adulterous marriages – Matthew 19:3-12; compare Ezra 10:1-19).
There are those who twist 1 Timothy 4:1-3 to forbid preachers from preaching Jesus’ doctrine on marriage, divorce and remarriage. Their flawed argumentation is as follows:
Major Premise: Any doctrine that forbids marriage is a doctrine of demons (1 Timothy 4:1-3).
Minor Premise: Some evangelists preach a doctrine on marriage, divorce, and remarriage which forbids marriage.
Conclusion: Therefore, some evangelists' doctrine on marriage, divorce, and remarriage is a doctrine of demons.
This argument is not sound and totally false based on the minor premise. Let us reconstruct the argument in a different manner as follows:\
Major Premise: Any doctrine that forbids marriage is a doctrine of demons (1 Timothy 4:1-3).
Minor Premise: John the Immerser’s doctrine (who was a true prophet of God by the testimony of Jesus himself – Matthew 21:13-27) on marriage, divorce, and remarriage forbids marriage (he forbade the marriage of Herod Antipas to Herodias [Mark 6:14-29]).
Conclusion: Therefore, John the Immerser’s doctrine on marriage, divorce, and remarriage is/was a doctrine of demons.
As you can see, this syllogism is false! Therefore, the other argument is false, too. In 1 Timothy 4:1-3, Paul’s statement must be qualified (meaning it is referring to scriptural, approved-by-God-joined marriages). Paul refers to forbidding scriptural marriages - not adulterous marriages!