IMHO-—I think the Jesuits have lost their way.
I think the Hollywood idea of divorce has become almost mainstream today. They just jump from one marriage to another when the slightest differences begin to set in. You’re supposed to work around the differences, not use them as an excuse to jump ship. Like all traditional institutions, liberals have trivialized it. Still, God allowed for divorce in the Bible, even though He said “I hate divorce”. He was referring to husbands “putting away” their wives when they got tired of them, and getting a new one. Most divorces today are by mutual agreement.
About 8 years ago, reacting to a leftist interim minister, I wrote a song “Jesus Thinks a Lot Like Me.”
One of the simplest statements Jesus ever said is:
Matthew 5:31-32 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
31 “It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’; 32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Nonsense!
Stick to the Bible and the doctrine, as they are consistent and clear.
Just because someone decides to alter what the Bible teaches doesn’t mean they know what they are talking about.
The arrogance of these people is incredible.
I do not guess what Jesus would say. I live following His actual words and what Jesus did say! It is not for me to decide what He would say now. It is not for anyone else living today to decide for themselves either and tell other people what Jesus would have said. Jesus warns that any who add or take away from His words risk losing their salvation. Jesus did not discuss such things as interplanetary space flight, smart phones, nuclear weapons, abortion, plastic and cosmetic surgery. Jesus gave us a moral compass. Jesus fulfilled the laws already on the books as under the ten commandments which can be applied to all sins in one form or another. Adultery did not go away and God further doubled down by saying you should not even covet your neighbors wife let alone sleep with her. It is as simple as that and all that ignore His word and encourage sinful behavior even if clergy are equally guilty of that sin.
Sure, and Jesus would say that God is often wrong.
Jesus quite rightly condemned it since practically all divorces were done by powerful men to powerless women.”
The statistics also show that it is the woman that is most dissatisfied in marriage which would explain why the powerful men divorced their complaining wives, a poor man could not afford to.
I believe Jesus meant that marriage was a life long Commentment if possible, people use any excuse to divorce when the main purpose is to jump into bed with some one else or that sick disease called pride.