Mat 19:3 Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"
Mat 19:4 He answered, "Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'
Mat 19:5 and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
Mat 19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
Mat 19:7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?"
Mat 19:8 He said to them, "It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mat 19:9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery."
We've ignored this for far too long, and now that we have a high divorce rate, we have those who would excuse such a thing when the Bible's clear. Divorce is wrong and goes contrary to God's purposes, making it a sin, and Jesus even says that those who remarry, save those who were cheated on, commit adultery if they remarry. Divorce is very serious business, and as has been made clear in this thread, carries a ton of pain any way you slice it. So, you want to talk about pain? What about that pain that would have been avoided by solving the problem and seeking healing? I don't believe people ever reach a point where they cannot be saved.
