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1 | Is divorce ever God's will? | Gen 2:24 | Saint John | 69487 | ||
Well... here goes...now brothers and sisters...I know that there are the quick answers that have been thrown about for years...however, I would like you to stop and freshly consider this question as I was asked to do...and when I did, I found that the old answers were not on the mark... Here's the question... What is God's will concerning marriage? The corrollary to that is ...Does God approve of divorce? and or remarriage? Allow me to offer some, hopefully, helpful strategies before any of you begin to quickly rattle off an old teaching that you have heard or re-stated... e.g., the Matthew account is not stating an acceptable reason to get a divorce; rather, when read on the face of it allowing the pericope to say what it says... the thrust of the passage is that unless the wife has caused herself to become an adultress, the husband will be the cause of her becoming an adultress... the "except" phrase is not a phrase giving permission for divorce, the phrase only helps to define the causality of the wife becoming an adultress... Now there are other scriptures which support the view that God does not allow for divorce... some of them very straight forward without any interpretation necessary... and since God's Word is not contradictory, I have come, as have others, to the conclusion that divorce is not allowed by God... forgiveness and reconciliation is the desire of God... His desire is not a suggestion as we know...but His will. I look forward to a thorough discussion of enlightening "iron sharpening"... Saint John |
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2 | Is divorce ever God's will? | Gen 2:24 | Robert Nicholson | 69488 | ||
Saint John: In Genesis 2:24 I believe we have a creational truth for all humankind: "for this cause shall a young man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall be one flesh" In other words, it would appear that God intended this relationship between a man and woman to be for life. In fact we are given more light in the New Testament as to the symbolic significance of the truth of the marriage relationship in Ephesians 5: 31,32 in which the words of Genesis 2:24 are repeated and Paul speaks of this relationship as a mystery, "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." The permanent relationship between a man and wife is a picture of the relationship which the church has with Christ, we know that this relationship is eternal. The Lord Jesus Christ in Matt. 19:8 in answering the Pharisees tells them "He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so." In addition, the Lord Jesus gives another principle in Matt. 19:6 "...what God hath joined togehter, let not man put asunder." In verse 9 of the same chapter we are reminded " I say unto you whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication (uncleaness), and shall marry another committeth adultry: and who marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery." There two principles thus far: a) From the beginning it was not so, it was not God's intention for divorce. b) The Lord Jesus emphaticallly pronounces "What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." I believe this is all relationships "which God hath joined together" whether the people involved are christians or not. What about divorce as seen in Leviticus? a) It was allowed in certain circumstances because "of the hardness of their hearts" b) The second part where Jesus seems to summarize the question in Matt. 11:9, this verse is often used to support the purposed "innocent party" theory. The word "fornication" used in Matt. refers to uncleanness as found in Leviticus and does not mean adultery. Why? If a woman were proven to be an adultress under the law her punishment was death, not divorce. Thus the meaning of uncleaness must mean something else. In John 8:11 we are given an account of a women caught in adultry and brought before Jesus. We read thses wonderful words which give us a contrast between law and grace: "And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn you: go and sin no more." The key thought here is that we can be forgiven, we can be made new creatures in Christ, but we are expected to turn away from our old way of life. I believe that we need to look carefully at "what God hath joined together" Are there relationships which God has not joined together which are unclean and would thus allow divorce to set things right? Peace in his Name Robert |
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