In marriage, spouses leave their parents and unite with each other (Mark 10:7) to become one flesh (Gen.2: 24). Because, it is a covenant of love, and God is love (1 John4:8), it is God who seals the marriage covenant; and no one can separate what God has joined together (Matt 19:6). In divorce, therefore, this covenant is not broken; it is rejected. Therefore, remarriage after divorce is adultery (Luke 16:18). Furthermore, since God seals this covenant, divorce is rejection of God. God, therefore, hates divorce (Malachi 2:16) and is not pleased with the offerings of those who divorce their spouse (Malachi 2: 13-14). Jesus tells us that before making offering to God, we must reconcile with those with whom we have grievances (Matt. 5: 23-24). Therefore, a divorced person must first reconcile with his/her spouse before making an offering to the Lord. Furthermore, a person divorced by his/her spouse must still stay faith to his/her spouse, just as God is faithful to us even when we reject Him (Hosea 3:1). Divorce is absolutely prohibited in the Gospels (Mk 10:11-12, Luke 6:18; Matthew 5: 31-32). In Matthew’s gospel there appears to be an exception. The exception in the Greek text is porneia (which means incest or fornication), and not moiceia (which means adultery). In the Mosaic Law (Lv 18:6-18) certain types of marriages between close relatives were unlawful, because, they were regarded as incest (porneia). Certain rabbis, however, allowed gentile converts to Judaism to remain in such marriages. The exemption in Matthew’s gospel is against such permissiveness for gentile converts to Christianity. Fornication is another meaning for porneia. Therefore, this exception also applies to couples who fornicate by living together without a lawful marriage (also known as common law marriages).
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There is also Another exception, Read 1st Corinthians Chapter 7. If your spouse is not a believer, you are not under the Bond of the Law of Marriage because he/she is a non-believer. It's only applicable if both are believers. As far as remarrying 1st Corinthians Chapter 7
God himself divorced Israel for her adultrous(idolturios) ways God never says divorce is an unforgivable sin another lie by men God says he hates divorce because it hurts those involved including the children. It also is usally caused by sin on one or both sidesbut if you repent of your part in the break up it is forgotten in Gods eyes so as I said divorce is forgivable by God only men have decided its not in certain denominations
only men have decided its not in certain denominations
Like honestly, I'm not trying to limit God's authority, but he made this flesh and with this flesh comes desire. Does any person honestly think a divorced 18-19 year old will go on the rest of their lives not remarrying? It's better to marry than to burn....
Like honestly, I'm not trying to limit God's authority, but he made this flesh and with this flesh comes desire. Does any person honestly think a divorced 18-19 year old will go on the rest of their lives not remarrying? It's better to marry than to burn....
Yes, I would believe in the pact between you, your spouse and God, but I also have heard another point of view saying that if your marriage is truely unhappy (as an example, your spouse beats you or abuses you in some other way) Jesus would frown upon that marriage.
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My first wife committed adultery all though our 5 years of being together. She finally told me to my face, "I WON'T change!" That was when I gave up. Why should I be expected to stay with an adulterous, unrepentant woman who saw nothing wrong with what she was doing?My second marriage was great--for about two weeks. Then she started sleeping on the sofa because I made the mistake of mentioning her LOUD snoring that kept me awake. It's the only criticism I ever made to her. However, she constantly criticized EVERYTHING I said and did until I couldn't take it any more. Counseling did no good. I finally told her to look for some other place to live, and we'd end that farce of a marriage. Two weeks later she moved in with her grown son from her first marriage and divorced me. I still loved her and didn't want the divorce, but she didn't love me and only wanted someone to dominate. She found out I wasn't perfect like she was and couldn't handle it.
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My first wife committed adultery all though our 5 years of being together. She finally told me to my face, "I WON'T change!" That was when I gave up. Why should I be expected to stay with an adulterous, unrepentant woman who saw nothing wrong with what she was doing?My second marriage was great--for about two weeks. Then she started sleeping on the sofa because I made the mistake of mentioning her LOUD snoring that kept me awake. It's the only criticism I ever made to her. However, she constantly criticized EVERYTHING I said and did until I couldn't take it any more. Counseling did no good. I finally told her to look for some other place to live, and we'd end that farce of a marriage. Two weeks later she moved in with her grown son from her first marriage and divorced me. I still loved her and didn't want the divorce, but she didn't love me and only wanted someone to dominate. She found out I wasn't perfect like she was and couldn't handle it.
Jon,You have had a hard time!Sorry to hear that!First the cheating wife, then the woman with a domination agenda! Yikes!I prefer relationships that are about partnership. I think we all do.
My first wife committed adultery all though our 5 years of being together. She finally told me to my face, "I WON'T change!" That was when I gave up. Why should I be expected to stay with an adulterous, unrepentant woman who saw nothing wrong with what she was doing?My second marriage was great--for about two weeks. Then she started sleeping on the sofa because I made the mistake of mentioning her LOUD snoring that kept me awake. It's the only criticism I ever made to her. However, she constantly criticized EVERYTHING I said and did until I couldn't take it any more. Counseling did no good. I finally told her to look for some other place to live, and we'd end that farce of a marriage. Two weeks later she moved in with her grown son from her first marriage and divorced me. I still loved her and didn't want the divorce, but she didn't love me and only wanted someone to dominate. She found out I wasn't perfect like she was and couldn't handle it.
Jon,You have had a hard time!Sorry to hear that!First the cheating wife, then the woman with a domination agenda! Yikes!I prefer relationships that are about partnership. I think we all do.
I can't say that whether or not God condones divorce. I know that there are instances of extreme abuse that warrent a wife or husband leaving, if only to protect their children. Its a dangerous thing to say that someone should stick around when they're beaten and degraded every day. I have some experience with emotional abuse and I don't believe that God wants any woman or man to stay where they are not loved and cherished.As for God rejecting Israel. That's a whole other can of worms that I'd be happy to respond to in another thread.
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Like honestly, I'm not trying to limit God's authority, but he made this flesh and with this flesh comes desire. Does any person honestly think a divorced 18-19 year old will go on the rest of their lives not remarrying? It's better to marry than to burn....
"His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given." Mat. 19:10As you, Jesus' disciples had a hard time accepting the new facts about marriage that changed what they new up to then. But it realy is not a matter of what you or I think but what the bible says. We must understand at some point of our lives that the bible is Law, we can't just change it. In fact we are damned if we do this.It wasn't easy for me to live as a child in a house that things got ugly too many times. In the end the divorce came and me and my sister were seperated from our father. They are still divorced my parents, but better than a few years back. I beleive that at some point they will eventually be together again. Especially if my mother follows Jesus, which I pray to happen.I don't say that it isn's difficult, but a law is a law. God commands it, it is the way He wants it. We must respect that.The disciples said and many claim that in the O.T. God forgave Israelites to send their wife away and marry a new one. But it wasn't this way from the biginning. God blessed marriage because the two become one and no one can seperate the one. No God did't want or like the idea of divorcing one's wife ever, in fact he hated and hates whoever does that, and I'm not being harsh, I'm just quoting "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away" Mal. 2:16The couple is bound by the law as long as they are in this life. Only death can seperate them. That is all that needs to be said."The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." 1 Cor. 7:39"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." Rom. 7:1And don't be mistaken that these verses do not apply to men also.Paul also says that if one of the two spouses is an unbeliever and wants to divorce the brother/sister must not do so because there is always a chance for the one that left to come back (1 Cor. 15). Now if this doesn't happen yes it is hard, but this is the law of God. Nothing more can be said.
Like honestly, I'm not trying to limit God's authority, but he made this flesh and with this flesh comes desire. Does any person honestly think a divorced 18-19 year old will go on the rest of their lives not remarrying? It's better to marry than to burn....
"His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given." Mat. 19:10As you, Jesus' disciples had a hard time accepting the new facts about marriage that changed what they new up to then. But it realy is not a matter of what you or I think but what the bible says. We must understand at some point of our lives that the bible is Law, we can't just change it. In fact we are damned if we do this.It wasn't easy for me to live as a child in a house that things got ugly too many times. In the end the divorce came and me and my sister were seperated from our father. They are still divorced my parents, but better than a few years back. I beleive that at some point they will eventually be together again. Especially if my mother follows Jesus, which I pray to happen.I don't say that it isn's difficult, but a law is a law. God commands it, it is the way He wants it. We must respect that.The disciples said and many claim that in the O.T. God forgave Israelites to send their wife away and marry a new one. But it wasn't this way from the biginning. God blessed marriage because the two become one and no one can seperate the one. No God did't want or like the idea of divorcing one's wife ever, in fact he hated and hates whoever does that, and I'm not being harsh, I'm just quoting "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away" Mal. 2:16The couple is bound by the law as long as they are in this life. Only death can seperate them. That is all that needs to be said."The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." 1 Cor. 7:39"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man." Rom. 7:1And don't be mistaken that these verses do not apply to men also.Paul also says that if one of the two spouses is an unbeliever and wants to divorce the brother/sister must not do so because there is always a chance for the one that left to come back (1 Cor. 15). Now if this doesn't happen yes it is hard, but this is the law of God. Nothing more can be said.
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