Kindly, you are very wrong biblically if you think that there are valid reasons to divorce. Divorce is NEVER biblically permitted. Yet, many wicked people feel the urge to express their carnal disagreement with the inspired Holy Bible. In short, God does NOT allow divorce for any reason. It ceases to annoy me that people cherry-pick the Word of God, only taking what they need to create a narrative to fit their own selfish agenda. Doing that, anything can be justified!
The Old Testament prophet Hosea remained faithful to Gomer, even when she was abusive toward him, committing adultery with her numerous heathen lovers, abandoning Hosea and their children for many years. Hosea didn't divorce her, he loved her and stayed faithful. One day as he went to town, he saw his beloved Gomer for sale at a slave auction and he ran to purchase her back for his own. He redeemed his wife. This is a beautiful picture of God's great love for humanity, that sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on Calvary's cross for our manifold sins (John 3:14-18).
Jesus plainly meant in Matthew 19:9, when he seemingly gave permission to divorce, that it was only during the courtship process that someone could break off the engagement. This is what Moses meant in Deuteronomy 24:1-4. We see this scenario illustrated in real life with the dire circumstances between Joseph and his wife Mary, when he found out that she was pregnant before they consummated their marriage. Joseph naturally thought she had been unfaithful and commit fornication. But the angel of the LORD came to Joseph and calmed his worries. Once two people have been married, it is for life. Matthew 19:6, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” God's original intent is clearly: Once Married, Always Married (OMAM).
In the beginning God created one man, Adam. Then from that one man He made the woman, Eve, and then there were two. But God wanted to unite them back into one, in marriage unity, as a beautiful picture of the believer's union with God in salvation. That is beautiful how that God made one individual, and then He made two, and the two became one again.
In Matthew 18:22, Jesus told the Apostle Peter that we should forgive each other 70 times 7 times, yet in filing for divorce a wicked spouse is sinfully refusing to forgive their spouse, esteeming them a "greater sinner" than them self. There is nothing as wicked as filing for divorce! Matthew 18:21-22, “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.”
The lame excuse of an abusive husband doesn't fly with God. If that be so with an abused wife, then leave until the husband gets help. That means the wife may need to get a job and take care of herself until their marriage can be restored. If not, then neither spouse is permitted to remarry, ever, as long as they are still alive. But quitting to move on to greener pastures is of the Devil, selfish and brings the judgment of God. The Lord doesn't reward quitter saints! Divorce, remarriage and adultery are plaguing America today.
Kindly said, I will go to seed in this important matter as a fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher of being faithful to one's marriage commitment, whether there were vows exchanged or not. I have heard every imaginable scenario over the years from desperate people seeking to divorce their spouse. One man said he married his wife in a foreign country and no vows were exchanged, so he thinks that somehow makes it okay for him to divorce his wife. What a wicked form of thinking! Get thee behind me Satan.
Jesus plainly taught that only a proud heart causes the sin of divorce. Proverbs 13:10, “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.”
For those who are guilty of filing for divorce, all you can do is repent of your wrong sinful attitude and seek reconciliation with your former spouse (if possible), to renew one's sweet fellowship with God. NO ONE who is saved and divorces their spouse and maintains a flippant defiant attitude, that they did nothing wrong, will ever be at peace with God as His child. This is why we are exhorted in 1st John 1:9-10, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”
Divorce is always sinful and wrong. It is tomfoolery and poppycock nonsense for anyone to use "adultery" as an excuse to divorce, when there are no such Scriptural exclusions for murder, bank robbery, assault, kidnapping, child endangerment, embezzlement, blackmail and other serious crimes. It is ridiculous to think that Jesus would allow divorce for adultery, but not for murder, bank robbery or stealing. Clearly, the Lord did not intend for anyone to ever get a divorce, and if they do it will only be because of the hardness of the spouse who filed for divorce, because they refused to forgive their spouse and divorced them instead.
Remarriage is wicked, even more so when someone's abandoned spouse is alone and suffering (which s the sad case of the betrayed husband in Rockford, Illinois, who drove to Ohio last week to murder his x-wife and new husband). You don't divorce, EVER! The only reason why wicked Americans get so many divorces is simply because they can, because we have a wicked government, and because the Satanic media promotes divorce as a fix-all solution to everyone's marital problems. I can hear some idiot now saying: “Honey, you need to lose that zero and go get you a hero!” We've all heard ungodly feminist fools make ungodly statement like that. Be very careful whom you take advice from (Psalms 1:1-3).
There's a very wicked pastor's daughter who abandoned her husband when he went to prison many years ago. He committed the sin of adultery and was fired as the church's pastor. That wicked wife had no biblical right to abandon her husband and go marry another man. Instead of being there as a godly wife to greet her broken and disgraced husband (the father of her children) after over a decade in prison, she chose to divorce him and move on to greener pastures. Instead of comforting her husband in prison, she wickedly abandoned him to go marry another man.
I wanted to vomit when I saw that she foolishly brags on social media that her and her "new" husband feel like they've "always known each other," and were "made for each other." That is as wicked as the Devil. Woe unto that ungodly spoiled brat wife when she answers to God someday. She is JUST AS MUCH a guilty rotten sinner as her husband is, and so are you, and so am I. There but for the grace of God go we. Psalms 106:6, “We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.” The only thing that makes you or me any more righteous in God's sight than Jeffrey Dahmer or Adolf Hitler is the precious blood of Jesus Christ that washed away our sins the moment we trusted Him (1st Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 1:5).
Al Capone's Wife Stayed Faithful To Him In Prison
And let me say, the notorious Chicago gangster criminal Al Capone (1899-1947) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for tax evasion. He entered into federal prison in 1931 with the horrible brain-eating disease syphilis from all his philandering in sin with prostitutes. Capone was released in 1939 due to his deteriorating health (Penicillin wasn't discovered until 1939).
Al Capone's faithful Catholic wife, Mary Josephine "Mae" Coughlin (1897-1986), married him in 1918. She managed his financial affairs and supported him during his imprisonment, remaining a devoted partner despite the challenges posed by his criminal lifestyle and dire health.
Al Capone's faithful Catholic wife, Mary Josephine "Mae" Coughlin (1897-1986), married him in 1918. She managed his financial affairs and supported him during his imprisonment, remaining a devoted partner despite the challenges posed by his criminal lifestyle and dire health.
Mae was not involved in Al's racketeering business, although she was affected by the actions Al took in dating other women while they were married. She once told her son "not to do what your father did. He broke my heart." Her hair also started to gray when she was 28, presumably due to stress regarding her husband's situation. Al was ultimately sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment on October 24, 1931, and Mae was one of three people allowed to visit him in prison. The other two were Al's mother and son. Mae remained a devoted wife, frequently sending letters to her husband, referring to him as "honey", and expressing her longing for him to return home. She visited him in person as well, traveling up to 3,000 miles from the Capones' Florida home to Alcatraz, usually going to lengths to obscure her face in order to avoid the paparazzi.
I contend that if that dear woman (one of my heroes) could stay faithful to a mobster like Al Capone (two unsaved Roman Catholics to wit), then no born again Christian woman can honestly use lesser lame excuses to divorce and abandon her husband. And that goes for all the husbands as well. You married her, you stay with her until the end of life. A marriage is two people making a life for each other.
Wife Of John Lennon's Murderer Still Faithful To Husband
Another one of my heroes is Gloria Chapman, the wife of John Lennon's murderer Mark Chapman (who is still rotting behind bars in a New York prison cell). Mark and Gloria had only been married for one year when he chose to murder The Beatles' member John Lennon in December of 1980.
There are records in Hawaiian on file of physical abuse where Mark beat her in the face. Yet, still 46 years later, Gloria admirably is still faithfully married to Mark. She writes him in prison and visits him a couple times each year for congenial visits, and they eat order-out pizza together in his cell.
Now compare that to the spoiled brat pastor's daughter who divorced and abandoned her unfaithful husband when he commit adultery with a young girl. The heathen world behaves more righteous than God's children do. God pity this wicked nation!
No, divorce is NEVER permissible biblically.
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