I have said this to Canada's past PM Jean Chretien, Paul Martin too and their respective useless Justice Ministers.. One of the biggest undeniable evidence of the Evangelical's hypocrisy in Canada ... practicing divorce, pastors counseling divorce.. and not just their allowing gambling, drunkenness too, tax evasions. In my many years of experiences the professing evangelicals have personally admitted to me doing tax evasions just as much as the secular persons now have in Canada(Luke 20:25 KJV) And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.(Rom 2:6 KJV) Who will render to every man according to his deeds:(Rom 13:7 KJV) Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.About 25 years ago or more I had definitely noticed that pornography was one of the hardest sins to counsel, and that many of the Christian and secular people involved in pornography ended in divorce, and I then did not understand fully next why as well.. that was at the time divorce was beginning it's rampage Canada wide even in Christian circles. And men and women are equal sinners here too. And Romance too often is still just porno.. Porno is still the false worship of an imaginary, unreal sex image.. and does leads to marital breakups often cause the viewers are out of touch with reality.. but are seeking an unattainable next, false unbalanced supposedly perfection of sex, life.. dream on... and they eventually will never be happy with it as a result too. I too did not understand many wives need to read romantic books until years later I looked into them and they were sex pornos.. I was shocked when God then himself told me that a lot of the women's home magazines given out door to door freely were pornographic too. I next also had clearly noticed that too many Canadian pastors also had adulterous affairs, they had and wrongfully counseled often divorce too cause they were sex maniacs who wanted to leave their own wrongful divorce options open still too, unacceptably. If too many of the pastors I met are wrongfully sex maniacs than what about the rest? Kinda of explains why the politicians and the lawyers, judges too failed to deal adequately with these unacceptable issues too.(Mal 2:16 KJV) For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
God’s initial pronouncements on marriage itself:Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:24, KJV Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 1:28a God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”
The law of first mention also clearly defines perpetually next what a marriage is.. a union of a man and a women.
Mark 10:6-9 But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate. (See also Matthew 19:4-6)
Jesus (and also the inspired apostle Paul) taught that marriage was intended to be permanent.
Mark 10:11-12 [Jesus] answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
Romans 7:2-3 The apostle Paul taught that “...by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.”
1 Corinthians 7:10-13, 27, 39 The apostle Paul’s teaching continues: “To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him ... [27] Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife ... [39] A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.”
Does the Bible does give scriptural grounds for certain cases of divorce and remarriage. The Bible itself requires also that two or three witnesses be provided in order to establish certain things as truth.
1. If a Christian husband or wife discovers that his/her un christian mate has been sexually unfaithful, the spouse who is innocent of the marital infidelity is permitted to divorce the offending spouse and to remarry. Permidtted does not mean mandatory still. Thereis still no provision ofr the divorce of Christias.
2. If a Christian’s unbelieving spouse leaves the Christian (not vice versa!), then the Christian who has been divorced in this way is free to remarry. The former marriage has been dissolved.
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.... [13] After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
Malachi 2:16 declares: “ ‘I hate divorce,’ says the LORD God of Israel.”
Deuteronomy 24:1-4, KJV When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Matthew 5:31-32 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:3-9 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?” Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
And as for any other reasaons a man to marry a women so divorced commits adultery with her. Jesus did not recognize the validity of divorce and remarriage “for every cause” (KJV). He canceled the fairly broad permission to divorce that was given to Israel by Moses “because [their] hearts were hard” (vs. 8).
There also really is no provion at all any where in the Bible for a women to divorce her husband, only a man could do so too.
There is a prevailing biblical exhortation to “forgive one another,” as in Ephesians 4:32 and Colossians 3:13. It is entirely biblical for the offended party to seek God diligently for the grace to forgive the adulterous spouse.
Ideally, the optimum solution is reconciliation and restoration of the marriage. In a remarkable passage in Jeremiah 3:8-20, God said that “Israel [had] committed adultery [and God] had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce.” Yet God cried out to Israel to repent and turn back to Him, and declared that He would receive her back. Through prayer and competent counsel, it is possible for at least some marriages shattered by adultery to be brought to a place of repentance, forgiveness, and restoration.
1 Corinthians 7:10-14 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
A Christian should not depart from and divorce his or her Christian mate. God does not allow a Christian to depart from another christian spouse for any reason
A wife still needs to be subservient and respectable towards her own husband.. and not slander, abuse him before any of the others..
(Prov 31:12 KJV) She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.I have noticed in particularly in North America, and in American, Asian Movies, Radio and TV advertisements the theme they do have too often is that all of us personally having more wealth, such as a job, car, house, clothes, food, money etc., or having a soul mate, a good marriage partner, more sex is what we all really need to be happy here on earth.. but neither is the truth in reality.. Jesus alone is all that what we need to be happy personally and rich or poor, married or single..It is also always inappropriate to gossp, even for pastors, to discuss behind their back as well publicly the shortcomings of a spouse.. doing so reveals that the tale bearer themselves is in the wrong, guilty of slander and of rebellion now as well.. rebellion even to God, (James 3:8 KJV) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.