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1 | can God seperate the joining of flesh? | Matt 19:5 | Cherokee | 228806 | ||
Husband and wife become one flesh in the eyes of God when married. Is it possable for God to seperate that joining of flesh? | ||||||
2 | can God seperate the joining of flesh? | Matt 19:5 | biblicalman | 228807 | ||
Hi. Welcome to the forum. Husband and wife are made one flesh by sexual union. That is why an unconsummated marriage can be annulled. But once two people have been united in that way they become one (Matt 19.5-6), even if it is with a prostitute (1 Cor 6.16) There is no suggestion anywhere that God will break that union. It is man who breaks the union by having sex with another person. That then means that the innocent party is freed from the union. They may divorce and marry again with God's approval. Clearly, however, we have to take into account God's forgiveness, especially when an offence was committed before conversion. However there would appear to be two cases where divorce is permitted other than for a sexual offence. One is where a Christian is married to an idolater who refuses to give up idolatry. That would appear to be the implication of Ezra 9.1-2. Notice that the foreign women in question were idolaters. The other would appear to be where a Christian is married to a non-Christian who as a result decides to break up the marriage (1 Cor 7.12-13). (The Christian should not seek the divorce unless the non-Christian is engaging in antiChristian oppression. Otherwise divorce is forbidden. Moses never actually authorised divorce. That was the interpretation of Deut 24.1-4 by the Pharisees. But Jesus said that God did not acknowledge that interpretation (Matthew 19.8-9). And that even Deut 24 had been written because of the hardness of men's hearts. But Deut 23.1-4 did not permit divorce. It simply regulated it. |
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