>>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 The mainline denominations and liberal non-denoms make the mistake of demanding that God’s standards are outdated and must change.
Yeah well he was unfaithful, and despite the fact that I kept the house spotless, was thin and not fat, was not an alcoholic, a gambler, a drug user, gave him sex whenever he wanted it, stay at home mom, devoted to my family, and the worst name I ever called him was “jerk”, made holidays for his family for 23 years, had dinner every night on table at 6, and we had no debt, it wasn’t good enough, he took up with his college girlfriend, who was also a Democrat and a millionaire, whose husband was in prison and I got left in the cold. Now annulled by Catholic church, waiting for God to bring love and not horror into my life, apparently hopelessly, as God hasn’t done diddly for me.