What’s the Protestant view on divorce?
Mark 2:10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and lif she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
depends on the denomination my grandmother was of a fundamentalist denomination absolutely against divorce... when she was “save” in the early 1920’s ..she was married to her 2nt husband at the time and had two children by him when she was “saved”..
She decided she was an adultery... left her second husband taking the children from her first and second marriage ..the children from the second she then considered illegitimate and said so
She then living as a single woman with 5 kids during the Depression in profound poverty ...caused a lot of friction in the family about Church in the family for years.
You can click on the footnotes to see the Bible proof texts in the bottom window of the page:
http://www.reformed.org/documents/wcf_with_proofs/ch_XXIV.html
Most Presbyterian denominations, especially the big ones, no longer subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith 1646, but they should.
The solidly Reformed denominations that still hold to the WCF 1646 hold that the Biblical reasons for divorce are the same as the Bible says, adultery, or desertion as can not be remedied by the either the Church or Civil Courts, and that they ARE Biblically just causes for divorce.
The innocent party remains within the Church, the offending party would obviously be subject to Church discipline.
Known adulterers or those who abandon their families are to be cast out from the congration, thus “turning them over to God”, as if they were dead. Thus the innocent party would then normally remarry, the same as if their spouse had physically died, since the normal Biblical pattern for Christians is to marry and raise children. Of course, if an innocent spouse is on the older side and already has children, they frequently may choose to not marry again, which is certainly Biblically acceptable as long as they can refrain from lust and fornication and other related sinful behaviors of the wordly that the Bible tells us to refrain from.
If the guilty party then subsequently REPENTS (which would include turning away from the sin of adultery or abandonment as the case may be), Lord willing they will find a solidly Reformed congregation where they can enter into fellowship.
Any solidly Reformed church they approach will of course use due diligence in determining if the person truly has repented before admitting them as a member; lying, of course, would signify a lack of repentance.
What’s the Catholic view of I Timothy 3:2 and 12?
Put more accurately it should be "What does Jesus Christ say about divorce?"
Matthew 19:
3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. 9 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. (KJV)
Pretty straight forward isn't it? Yet any church will get every scripture wrong if they do not get regeneration correctly. For any interpretation or exegesis with the heart of man will get the words of Christ wrong.