Post by CoolJGS☺ on Aug 23, 2017 14:26:49 GMT
I had no idea the current model for divorcing a woman followed the same lines as summoning Beetlejuice.
Biblical facts regarding divorce:
Divorce was allowed in the Mosaic Law for some now unknowable but pretty specific indecency by the wife.
Deuteronomy 24:1
24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,
Eventually the nation allowed divorce for more reasons possibly even including adultery against the wife, against God's direction.
Malachi 1:10
13 Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. 14 You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
15 Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[d] So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
16 “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[e] says the Lord Almighty.
The marriage arrangement in the Bible did not really apply to marriages between Israelites & pagans, so pagan wives could be dismissed at any time once the men came to their sense and realized they were only marrying for booty.
In general, divorces were based on the notion that the man does the divorcing, but the Gospels allude to women being able to divorce their husbands.
Many times, people are under the mistaken impression that just because Christianity is easier, it's more lax.
In actuality, it is far stricter in regards to marriage and divorce. There is really only one option: You have to cheat on your spouse and that spouse has to not forgive you for it.