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Divorce is permitted in two cases in scripture.
Now, here is your challenge: find a passage of scripture that straight-up commends re-marriage to another mate.
This is close to what a long time pastor I know called the “loose biblical view.” He’s seen tighter, but he knows of no way to justify anything looser. To be cheated on, or to be abandoned by an unbeliever, opens up the option to permit the dissolution of the union.
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I was born and raised a Catholic. In mid thirties became Protestant, Nazarene Church. My first marriage was not in Catholic church. He WAS a wife beater and also beat our 18month son in his crib one night with a belt because he wouldn’t stop crying. I filed for divorce.
Many women were trapped in abusive marriages, physically and emotionally for hundreds of years. I have to think that my Lord and savior would not send me to hell, doom my soul forever, because I left the marriage for my and my son’s safety.
I’ve heard that in some very conservative Jewish community, divorce is allowed under very specific conditions and that the married couple go through quite the procedure in acquiring it.
The end result is actually that the divorce rate is very low because reconciliation often occurs as the couple is counseled.
As Christians we are told to live in peace. When you are married to an insanely jealous person you cannot do that. When that person interrupts you while you are in deep prayer in church and asks you what you are thinking of, or accuses you at lusting after the pastors daughter, or any of the other woman in the church you can not live in peace.
I spoke to my pastor many times on this and although he didn’t give me a “biblical” out he did understand my situation and agreed that it was not a healthy, peaceful, situation.
The ironic part is she was partly responsible for leading me to the Lord...
I think it is always God’s will that there be reconciliation between married people. Scripture says He “hates divorce” (Malachi 2:16), but, he also knows the hardness of the heart of man and so allows it under strict conditions. It should be the last resort for any Christian and that so many seem to divorce and remarry these days - even pastors - is a scandal for today’s church. There should be a much better example set for the world.