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I didn't find any. So marriage is a covenant between God and a man and a woman to form a lifelong relationship for the purpose of raising children. The marriage ceremony is in my opinion just the public display of that commitment. 1. Is God forced to enter that covenant (judged on a...

Good point. But this is in the context that two unbelievers are married and then one becomes a believer. If the non-believer wants to leave the relationship, then they are free to leave and the believer is free to remarry. The problem is if the believer marries a non-believer, which is...

There is an example of the excuse "God didn't intend for us to marry" in Ezra 10:10–11. The second excuse "Since my marriage didn't work out, therefore God wanted me to marry someone else" is illogical because marriages might not work out for different reasons. No, it doesn't. If she wishes...

So we have an example where God held people to forbidden covenants (as with Joshua and the Gibeonites) and we have an example where God told the people to leave the forbidden covenant (as in Ezra 10:10–11 where the men were told to leave their forbidden wives). I still can't wrap my head around...

Presupposition 1: Matthew 19:6 “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” implies that God makes the union between a man and a woman in marriage; God joins them. We also know that the marriage partners become one flesh. So something happens; God does something. It's...