Divorce according to the Bible

[Ashley Amos]

 

[Tinker Grey]

So?

 

[chevyontheriver]

Does it really say "Unless she be unfaithful"?

 

[Carl Emerson]

What is being presented is one rather legalistic interpretation of these scriptures...

If anyone wants to seriously understand this issue I can post a careful study from a Prof. of NT studies who has devoted a chunk of his life to the study of this matter...

 

[Leet]

If a man or woman is being abused physically, sexually or emotionally within their marriage, I'd be very leery of anyone who insisted they stay. And to further punish said person (and anyone else they meet) for leaving by insisting on a life of loneliness? It takes two people to maintain a marriage, even if at times it takes one to end it.

 

[Ashley Amos]

So?

Well if this scripture does not apply to you good for you.

 

[Ashley Amos]

Does it really say "Unless she be unfaithful"?

Adultery or fornication is also used. No difference both are sexual intercourse outside the marriage.

 

[Ashley Amos]

If a man or woman is being abused physically, sexually or emotionally within their marriage, I'd be very leery of anyone who insisted they stay. And to further punish said person (and anyone else they meet) for leaving by insisting on a life of loneliness? It takes two people to maintain a marriage, even if at times it takes one to end it.

Please provide chapter and verse of where This is said in the bible.

 

[JohnDB]

Adultery or fornication is also used. No difference both are sexual intercourse outside the marriage.

And exactly why would an adulterous person get a divorce when they are dead by stoning?

 

[Ashley Amos]

What is being presented is one rather legalistic interpretation of these scriptures...

If anyone wants to seriously understand this issue I can post a careful study from a Prof. of NT studies who has devoted a chunk of his life to the study of this matter...

If your professor sees these scriptures another way then he has manipulated and compromised them since no matter how much you study them they will not change to say the opposite.

 

[Ashley Amos]

And exactly why would an adulterous person get a divorce when they are dead by stoning?

Are you saying Jesus allows stoning?

 

[JohnDB]

If your professor sees these scriptures another way then he has manipulated and compromised them since no matter how much you study them they will not change to say the opposite.

How about the original languages used... like the Hebrew and aramaic?

How about the history of the English translation of scriptures was made under which famous English King?
Why did that King commission an English translation?

 

[JohnDB]

Are you saying Jesus allows stoning?

I'm only asking because Stephan was stoned...
Then the passage you are referring to in John 8 is highly contested scripture.

And the stoning of an adulterous person is mandated by Moses.

 

[Ashley Amos]

How about the original languages used... like the Hebrew and aramaic?

How about the history of the English translation of scriptures was made under which famous English King?
Why did that King commission an English translation?

Matthew 11:25

New International Version
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

 

[Ashley Amos]

I'm only asking because Stephan was stoned...
Then the passage you are referring to in John 8 is highly contested scripture.

And the stoning of an adulterous person is mandated by Moses.

Stephen was not stoned by followers of Christ was he?

Can you show me any scripture where Jesus does condone stoning?

And lastly Moses mandates divorce for any reason at all but Jesus reformed divorce to how it originally was intended to be which is no divorce unless a wife commits adultery.

 

[JohnDB]

Matthew 11:25

New International Version
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Well you haven't explained yet why or how God, who doesn't change, has completely reversed Himself on this subject.

In the Torah, adulterous people were stoned. Even Tamara was fixing to get stoned in Genesis when she became pregnant until she proved that Judah was indeed the biological father of her baby.

Men who were adulterous also were routinely stoned.

 

[JohnDB]

And what exactly does it mean to be a "put away" wife?

Joseph was going to do that to Mary before the Angel got a hold of him.

 

[Ashley Amos]

Well you haven't explained yet why or how God, who doesn't change, has completely reversed Himself on this subject.

In the Torah, adulterous people were stoned. Even Tamara was fixing to get stoned in Genesis when she became pregnant until she proved that Judah was indeed the biological father of her baby.

Men who were adulterous also were routinely stoned.

John 8

 

[Ashley Amos]

And what exactly does it mean to be a "put away" wife?

Joseph was going to do that to Mary before the Angel got a hold of him.

Divorce

 

[JohnDB]

Divorce

John 8 is highly contested scripture. Most Bibles have footnotes explaining this. Why would you use the most contested scripture to form a very condemning theology? And condemnation is ALWAYS risky in a NT era.

And your creating a whole new meaning out of "Put Away" for a wife is in direct conflict with scriptures AND every anthropologist that has studied the Ancient Near East.

So...
Considering the King of England who commissioned the English translation of the scriptures
And
Considering that God is Immutable
And
Stoning of adulterers
And
You don't have any real knowledge of what "Put Away" means
And
You are using highly contested scriptures as proofs of a highly doubtful theology

I'm doubting your answers for divorce and remarriage.