Divorce and Adultery

If two people come to be judged by God, with one person having never divorced and the other one having divorced so the strife in the household can be eliminated, and there is only room for one more person in God’s Kingdom, who would God pick based on our understanding, if that really mattered? That is the question…

Reducing such an important topic to an unbiblical what-if situation is ridiculous.

If two people come to be judged by God, with one person having never divorced and the other one having divorced so the strife in the household can be eliminated, and there is only room for one more person in God’s Kingdom, who would God pick based on our understanding, if that really mattered? That is the question…

1. There's never a lack of room in God's kingdom.

2. We aren't "judged" based on our view, or problems, with divorce... but on the blood of christ which justifies us before God.



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Your profile says you were "saved" in 2004.
Is that salvation something you believe you can lose?

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As implied in 2 Peter 2:20-22, we can be prone to return to our own vomit of ignorance through sin, thereby making us worse off than when we ate the fruit of salvation so yeah, it's something we could lose. I guess in that regard, the blood of Jesus would not restore our salvation.

In Genesis 2:24 it is written “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” This is the commandment God gave, around the time he created Adam and Eve, and He intended it to apply to all men and women.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2

Rejecting The Cross

One thing is certain: For all who reject the Cross, even though they are truly saved, there will be no spiritual growth, and failure and defeat in some way will ever be the lot of their spiritual lives. It’s impossible for it to be otherwise. The Holy Spirit through Paul plainly stated, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” (Gal. 2:21).

In other words, if we can walk in righteousness, and I speak of the righteousness that comes exclusively from the Lord, by any method other than trusting in Christ and what He did at the Cross, then Jesus didn’t need to come down here and die on a Cross. So, by the very fact that He had to die on a Cross, it plainly tells us that this is the way, and there is no other. Righteousness cannot come by the law, by our own efforts, our own abilities, or by anything that man may devise. It can only come by and through what Christ did for us at the Cross and our faith in that finished work, which then guarantees the help of the Holy Spirit.

Helpmate

The phrase, “But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him,” was meant to show the first man that the animal kingdom, as beautiful and helpful as some of them were, would be of no help to Adam, at least the help he needed.

To be sure, the Lord already knew all of this, but He wanted Adam to know this as well. Ellicott said, “But while he could tame many, and make them share his dwelling, he found among them (the animals) no counterpart of himself, capable of answering his thoughts and of holding with him rational discourse.”

The Lord knew all the time what He would do, for, in fact, it had been planned from before the foundation of the world (I Pet. 1:18–20).

I think one can say without any fear of contradiction that the Lord always creates a desire in our hearts for something that He proposes to give, although we may understand little about it to begin with.

Adam had no way of knowing what the Lord would do, but he did know that there was a deep longing within his heart for companionship—but yet, a type of companionship that would be completely compatible with himself but would not be exactly the same as himself. That’s the reason he inspected the animal kingdom very closely.

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Extremely Important

A woman has intuition that a man just doesn’t have. She has greater sensitivity to things than the man has and, thereby, is able to discern, I think, to a greater extent.

But Jesus uses Genesis 2:24 as the basis for asserting that God did not intend a man and wife to divorce. The Pharisees came up to Jesus and asked him why then, does Moses, who gave us God’s law, allow for divorce when he says in Deuteronomy 24:1 - “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house?” Jesus responds in Matthew 19:8 that it is because of man’s tendency toward evil, which he might inflict on his wife if he finds no favor in her, that a certain degree of relaxing of the original commandment was needed to prevent strife. God in Genesis tells us to be fruitful and multiply, and strife tends to inhibit such fruitfulness and multiplying, which was more important to God.

Our relationship with God is important in the spiritual realm, and we become one with Him.

And so it is in the physical realm when a man and a woman marry they become one flesh, and an important relationship in the natural realm.

So what it is with God and the saints in the spiritual realm, it is like that between a man and a woman who are married in the natural realm, for there is not a closer relationship between 2 people than those that are married, for you do not have sex with anyone but your spouse, and you care about them totally concerning emotional, financial, physical, spiritual, and mental support, although a lot of the world neglect this, and a lot concerning the spiritual support.

So it is not good to break the covenant of marriage, like it is not good to break the covenant with God, for if you are one flesh than you are connected to that person, and it should not be broken.

But a person can remarry if the their spouse breaks that covenant by cheating on them, or if one of them dies.

Now I know some people may say they cannot get along with their spouse, and think it is alright to divorce, but they cannot legally in the eyes of God, for either they have to work it out, or separate and never get married again, unless one of them cheats, or dies.

To be with God, and then following a false god, an idol, is like a person being married, and then cheats on their spouse.

It would be a good idea for people to not rush in to marriage, and make sure they know the person well before marriage, for the rest of your life is too long to be having trouble in a marriage when you want peace.

Technology brought out the selfishness, and arrogance of people more, by way of money flowing like a raging river, and material things aplenty, worldly entertainment, and worldliness in general, where people are more selfish, and arrogant now, and also causes people to not like each other as much for they say people basically care about themselves with little regard for anybody else as people try to get all they can get in that type of atmosphere.

So people are not on the same level, and trust is low among some people, and they are more self centered.

Before technology people were basically on the same level, and did not have anything to cling unto to exalt themselves, so they looked at people as basically decent, and when you got married you basically knew what kind of spouse you were getting.

But today it is not like that, and many men and women kind of look at each other in a negative light, with men being dogs, and women caring about money, and not as much trust, for people basically care about themselves.

And nobody tells you their faults before they get married, for they are on their best behavior at first, for if they were not nobody would get together, but the faults come out later for they can not hold them back as they burst forth like water through a dam, and then it falls apart, for the attitude of people is different now than it was before technology for the most part.

Like Jesus said since iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold, and that is affecting marriages, so they will not get along as well as years ago.

But still it is no reason to get a divorce, for it is kind of like too bad, so sad, for they wanted to get married so they can deal with it and stay married if it is not a legitimate reason to get a divorce.

But many who claim Christ will not do that, but get a divorce, and many people today get a divorce, for people are more selfish, and arrogant, and thinking about themselves, and do not trust people, and think people only care about themselves, so they do not get along as in time past.

Can a woman also divorce her husband?