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“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.” (2 Peter 3:18)
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“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.” (2 Peter 3:18)
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DIVORCE “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.” (Jeremiah 3:8) God divorced Israel for spiritual adultery. Although claiming to be the chosen people of God, they were worshipping false gods of fertility such as Baal (Lord) and Ashteroth (Mother Goddess). These pagan gods were worshipped with all forms of illicit sex and violence. Their priests and priestesses were male and female prostitutes. Thus, Israel was committing both spiritual and physical whoredom in their idolatry. Although God hates putting away, divorce is sometimes necessary. He divorced Israel of Jeremiah's time for adultery. Their whoredom was continual. They refused to repent of it. “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.” (Matthew 19:9)
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now quote from Conrad Murrell: The grounds that Jesus gives for divorce, then, are far more than any simple sex act. The Savior, who forgave the adulteress, would never have recommended a man divorce his wife simply because she fell into adultery one time. What Christian man who loved his wife would want to? That would be a tragic error and would violate everything that Christianity stands for. The thing that sets Christianity apart from every other religion is forgiveness . . . mercy and grace to transgressors. No, fornication is much more than a single or even a few isolated sex acts. I have seen multitudes of marriages survive these wounds and, scarred though they may be, yet go on to establish and maintain a solid marriage, home, and Christian testimony. Fornication is outright whoredom. One partner becomes sexually wanton. Casting all restraint aside, he or she sells the body into a life of sexual impurity. When such happens no marriage exists. It is broken, gone. There is no union. Attempts at reconciliation are vain. There is no remorse, no guilt, no intention of repentance. Nothing is left but to sever the legal ties and set the parties free. The only other ground given in the scripture for divorce is desertion (I Corinthians 7:15).Conrad Murrell, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage
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