1: I concede that you may have a point in respect to civil weddings and the like - but if people make lifelong vows to each other
then the moral expectation is that vows ought to be honoured.
2: 1Corinthians 7 is the chapter on marriage, and it does not state that if an unbelieving spouse leaves a believer then one is
free to remarry.
One would be expected to live as a person separated from their married spouse - the scriptures still command that a
Christian disciple must remain faithful and righteous unto God.
Only if the unbelieving spouse commits adultery and/or remarries is a Christian free to remarry.
15 Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath
called us in peace.
16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt
save thy wife?
1Corinthians 7:
my understanding of these verses is that the remaining faithful disciple is not under the marital bondage and need not leave the
church on account of an unbelieving spouse that wants to depart.
verse 16 I believe upholds the value of remaining as a separated spouse because one's faithfulness (and prayers) may well bring
back the unbelieving spouse to salvation.
This also fits in with what Jesus said about hating your mother and father, etc … for the gospel's sake.
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