Yeah well, God hates divorce but doesn’t forbid it; and the adultery thing was so fathers could know with certainty who their kids are, after menopause, it doesn’t matter, now does it?
Am I not a different person than I was at age 25? If I now understand that people can relate in a fun supportive way and I don’t have to be a doormat in a relationship, do I have to stay stuck with my torturer?
>>>Am I not a different person than I was at age 25? If I now understand that people can relate in a fun supportive way and I don’t have to be a doormat in a relationship, do I have to stay stuck with my torturer?<<<
Why can’t you be just be you, changes and all, with your spouse? How are you being tortured inside your marriage?
>>Yeah well, God hates divorce but doesn’t forbid it; and the adultery thing was so fathers could know with certainty who their kids are, after menopause, it doesn’t matter, now does it?
>>Am I not a different person than I was at age 25? If I now understand that people can relate in a fun supportive way and I don’t have to be a doormat in a relationship, do I have to stay stuck with my torturer?
God knows that humans are all sinners. That is fully unacceptable to him, so and I are totally screwed.
But through the work of Jesus on the cross and through his perfectly sinless life, we can be made righteous despite ourselves.
So, it’s not ok that you divorce unless your spouse is unfaithful. But that’s just one sin among thousands that condemn you. Jesus washes them all away. That’s the scriptural answer. If you think it’s ok because cultures change and times change, so God must change, then you have a problem. The mainline denominations and liberal non-denoms make the mistake of demanding that God’s standards are outdated and must change.