Subject: Can a woman divorce man: Ongoing porn? |
Bible Note: Shalom Bandaid, I have answered to the best of my ability on the fasting and prayer question and I gave you an answer on the divorce question. I just had one more insight on the divorce issue - If you are familiar with the many do's and don't's as portrayed in the Torah, they are mostly in the male gender - but human common sense let's us know that they are speaking to the female gender as well!! Just a few examples - Exodus 23:3 "You shall not show partiality to a poor man in his dispute." Does that mean people can show partiality to a poor woman just because the term woman is not used? Of course not!! One we are all familiar with, Exodus 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his femaile servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." As we read this we realize it is not just to the men, it's for the women, too. Or is it OK for a woman to covet her neighbor's husband or anything else that belongs to her neighbor? I don't think so. Or Exodus 21:16 says "He who kidnaps a man...shall surely be put to death." Is God saying that it is OK for a man to kidnap a woman? or for a woman to kidnap a man? Of course not! It goes on and on, 'if a man...' but God must surely have meant 'if a human being or a person' in the majority of His civil laws. Just because we don't have the specific words "woman" or "female" doesn't mean the His commandments, whether for the person's benefit or not, doesn't apply to the female gender. Women are very special to God, too!! This is just a general answer to your question about divorce - only you know what really applies. Just keep in mind that God gave us brains to think for ourselves, His word to let us know what He smiles at and frowns at, His Son to cleanse us of our honest mistakes (even our not-so-honest mistakes) and His Spirit to help us know how to unjangle the many messes we seem to create for ourselves (especially before we knew Him). His Spirit will lead you in the way you are to go. Sorry I couldn't help more. :o) Cheri |