Bible Question:
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 |
Bible Answer: duet.24:1-4-the mosaic law of divorce-man take wife and find no favour in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her can divorce her. duet22:19,29the sexes to be distinguished by apparel and punishments for illicit relations- give an hundred shekels of silver give to father of damsel may not put her away all his days. man lay with her shall give damsel's father fifty shekels he may not put her away all his days.matthew 19:3-1-9 jesus reaffirms his law on divorce also mark10:1-12,luke16:18 pharisees came tempting jesus saying, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? jesus answered: at beginning made them male and female. man leave father and mother to cleave to wife. whosoever put away wife except for fornication, and shall marry another committeth adultery: and whose marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. |
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