God Designed Marriage To Be Permanent

God designed marriage to be permanent. He did not change His own law and allow for divorce! That is absolutely ridiculous. Moses changed the law because of people’s hardened hearts! Back in Moses days, husbands were throwing their wives out into the streets where they were being raped, brutally beaten and sometimes killed.

To help women not be thrown out in the street like animals, Moses felt compelled to enact a new law. The new law was that a man had to write a formal letter of dismissal and go to court to be able to divorce his wife—they could no longer throw their wives out in the street where they were often taken advantage of. (Deuteronomy 24: 1-4) This new law deterred husbands from divorcing their wives.

Now, let’s go back to the beginning for a moment. God joined two people (male and female) together sexually into one flesh, which creates the union of marriage between a man and a wife. No one and nothing is able to separate what God joined together. God states, “let man not separate”.

“…So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man NOT separate.” (NIV Matthew 19:6)

But the Pharisees were trying to trick Jesus. The Pharisees were always trying to trick Jesus throughout the scriptures (New Testament). They were puzzled because God said that a man could not separate what He joined together, and yet here was a man called Moses permitting men to divorce their wives. He was separating them.

“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away? (NIV Matthew 19:7)

He saith unto them, “Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery, and whoso marrieth her, which is put away doth commit adultery. (KJV Matthew 19:8-9)

The exception clause is not talking about two married people but two betrothed people. Jesus was talking to the Jews who believed in being betrothed before getting married, which was done for various reasons but usually so the "soon to be husband" could provide for his wife and family. The above scripture is referring to unmarried people that were only betrothed and not actually married. "Fornication" is having sex between two unmarried people. If they were really married rather than betrothed, it would read, "except it be for adultery".

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or sister in not under bondage in such cases: But God hath called us to peace. (1 Corinthians 7:15)

Do not misread the above scripture. It does not say you can remarry. It only says, “not under bondage”. What can you do if the unbeliever wants to leave the marriage? All you can do is let them leave to "keep the peace" as scripture says. It merely says it is ok to let the unbeliever leave the marriage if that is what they want to do.. It does not say to get a divorce or to remarry anyone else ever! There is no remarriage in scripture.

To the married I give this command (not I but the Lord): A wife must NOT separate from her husband. But if she does she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must NOT divorce his wife. (1 Corinthians 7:10-11)

Marriage Is Permanent!

God wants married couples to stop looking for reasons to leave marriage. He wants us to concentrate on how to stay together. Marriage is until death parts you from one another. But if your spouse is so spiritually sick with a hardened heart, you certainly can’t stop them from divorcing you.

Although divorce seems legal in the eyes of man, because Moses permitted it, in God’s eyes couples are still married until death of either spouse. This is why God says remarriage, if one spouse is still alive, is committing adultery.

For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she married another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she married another man. (Romans 7:2-3)

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