(Sasha;61914)
Maybe we need to take a step back. The word says what GOD brings together let no man seperate. How many marriages do you know GOD brought together? Getting married because you have so much in common, or because it just seemed right, does not mean that GOD brought them together. People get married out of lust, loneliness, convience, or because they can walk away from it if it doesn't work out, no big deal.You are not suppost to be unequally yoked. Do not marry a non-chirstian or someone of another faith. How could you hold them to living acording to your belief if they don't believe that? Equally yoked means you stand in agreement on the word of God.
Actually, that is a good point, Sasha. I have several Christian friends in their second marriages (and our pastor is in his third) that know my stance, yet I am very accepting lest I sound too harsh. The key to your point is did God put them together? Nowadays, I don't think too many people think about that. And if God did not put them together, then I have to ask where was God when they needed Him? It's little things like this that I have to get a tad angry with God especially when skeptics use things like this to poke fun at us Christians. But then again, some people have such a deluded view of God, and so sure of themselves, that they fight His will even if God tries to prevent it, so God lets them go.Such was a case with me. I almost married a woman that I was sure that God had for me, but then it did not work out. Thank God that He delivered me from that. But with my present wife (of 22 years no less) I "knew" that God wanted us together when I saw the palm of her hand. I'm not into palmistry so don't even go there--- I was amazed as well. But initially I bucked it and had doubts. But here we are 22 years later going strong. In spite of my feelings, I just trusted God. And 22 years later I couldn't love anyone else more. He knew who was best for me.I suspect based on my own experience, and this is just one way to look at it, that most people "follow their heart" when indeed they are going 100 mph toward a brick wall without brakes, and then wonder why it falls apart. And the true mate they reject "because it does not feel right". Man's heart is messed up to begin with and is desperately wicked---- hence the high divorce rate. You see this same stubbornness even on this board, but with other doctrines. I never seen so many pompous whatevers get banned because they think they are so right and have God's truth, but then it falls apart later in their lives and they wonder why. I question everything, my beliefs included---- sometimes I change and sometimes I stay the same.For my Christian friends that ask me about this, I say, well maybe it was your second spouse you were supposed to marry first, but did not listen!