Can Christians divorce?

JacobKStarkey said:

Show me where Jesus said that, nonaeroterraqueous, scripture and verse.

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It's already been posted here, several times. I'm not going to hold your hand and guide you to it if you don't care enough to read it for yourself. This is the information age, and you can easily find it yourself.

Jesus, himself, called divorce and remarriage adultery, and it's quoted multiple times in the gospels. If you can't find that, then you aren't trying.

lol people got to be careful what they say. You have to read the word of God before you deny it. Just because you haven't heared of it before don't mean its not there. I dont care how much I cover I always learn a new thing the Lord reveals to me. At first some things is like but Lord why but then God put you in a situation or you pray and and start reading more than than just that verse in the bible then you start putting all the pieces of the puzzle together then it finally starts to make sense. Now you come to agree with God in what he said. Thats why the Lord tells us to listen to him despite what we understand. If his word says one thing dont go with something else because you understand it to be something else. You seek understanding until you understand why and what God means.

Jesus_is_Saint said:

Can Christians divorce?

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According to what Jesus said, " That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

Someone can become divorced if their spouse cheats, however, they cannot remarry after getting divorced. They can separate, but if they marry someone else then they are committing adultery.

In peace

The teaching of Jesus is clear, in Matthew 19:9: And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.

That is divorce is OK in cases of sexual immorality.

Paul adds an additional condition where divorce is allowed, in 1 Corinthians 7:15: But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

That is divorce is OK in cases where an unbelieving spouse does not "consent to live with" a Christian.

[for me anyway] as our Lord Jesus Christ made plain and clear that the only exception is for fornication, yet in Him we know very well that He would have us first even in this to forgive and be reconciled. But the Lord points out in (Mat 19:11) that He knows that all cannot accept this standard, except to whom it is given: and further points out at the end of (Mat 19:12) that the person who is able to accept it, let them accept it.
Moreover in (1 Cor 7:27-28) the Holy Spirit of Truth speaking through the Apostle Paul is confirming the matter in Christ, that again His standard is if we are married, then we we should not seek to be divorced; and if we are divorced, then we should not seek to remarry. But then the Spirit goes on to say that He know not everyone can be without companionship, therefore if we were to remarry in sincerity in the fear of God, we may, though we shall have troubles for it, as we all know very well that divorce and remarriage there is burdens brought with it.
This matter is the only matter in which the Lord knows that we of little strength need His help in: but though He allows an exception, it does not at all mean that it is license for us to take advantage of.

nonaeroterraqueous said:

It's already been posted here, several times. I'm not going to hold your hand and guide you to it if you don't care enough to read it for yourself. This is the information age, and you can easily find it yourself.

Jesus, himself, called divorce and remarriage adultery, and it's quoted multiple times in the gospels. If you can't find that, then you aren't trying.

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Refrain from goading, please. Yes, I have seen the quotes, and I have not asked for a quote since then. Now we can move to the next step: is the Lord's comment to be taken literally? It should guide our lives. Does it mean we will not be saved if we don't. No. The immediate above explains it very well above.

I believe people are emotionally driven in many of these responses. It is a sensitive topic, but that shouldn't influence the way we see Scripture. Jesus gave no reason for divorce, but affirmed that it is perpetual from beginning to end. Divorce and remarriage is adultery as long as the living partner remains alive.

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Heres all I got to say left "Don't commit adultery is one of the ten commandments. God already said if you marry someone after getting divorced for anything other than death or sexual immorality then you and the woman/man you married have both committed adultry.

Put the whole scriptural passage into context.

Is divorce the unforgivable sin? Is remarriage?

Last I read there is only one unforgivable sin.

RDKirk said:

I thought you said divorce was always a sin?

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Divorce = unforgiveness on the part of the one seeking it. Unforgiveness is unforgivable sin.

Cis.jd said:

Sir, you have to be realistic.

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Love forgives and does not place people in sin's way subjecting them to remarriage/adultery.

NW82 said:

I quoted Matthew 19:9. You're taking it out of context. The one and only permissible reason is fornication.

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But the innocent wife divorced from an adulterous husband also commits adultery if she remarries. Also the man she marries.

Cnnsdc63 said:

Christ did forgive me. Past,present and future. If we are as perfect as Christ, would we need him? Before the law came along, Abraham gave his wife away. Not only did he get her back, he got wealthy over it. Now that we are no longer under law but grace, often referred to as “Abraham’s blessing “ I tend not to judge people or preach self righteousness. As far as faith being in vain, I would say my faith is in Jesus Christ, not in myself.

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Divorce was an OT provision not found in the NT as a provision for believers.

greenguzzi said:

No, we recognise that we don't live it the near east 2000 years ago. Therefore we interpret the NT accordingly.
It's the total opposite of throwing the Bible away, it is taking the Bible very seriously indeed. Not flippantly projecting our own culture upon it.
It's called hermeneutics, I'm sure you've heard of it.

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So truth changes?

nanookadenord said:

You are really good at moving those goalposts and avoiding the real answer to my question

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I answered the question and you didn't understand. So I'm proving divorce is sin on the part of the seeker when forgiveness is the Christian's calling.

nanookadenord said:

I don't need to. The burden is yours to prove.

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All you need is one scripture directly stating Christians can divorce and not forgive instead.

JacobKStarkey said:

Zero scriptures by Jesus forbids divorce, Dave L.

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To be fair. Mark 10:11-12

nanookadenord said:

Is divorce the unforgivable sin? Is remarriage?

Last I read there is only one unforgivable sin.

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“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing. [But if you don’t forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your wrongdoing.]”” (Mark 11:25–26) (HCSB)