This sentence bothers me, because if one thinks it is sin, but plans and does it anyway, with a plan to ask for forgiveness, isn't that presuming upon G-D's mercy? Not that I know! I am new to an understanding of sin, having not understood it properly until fairly recently!!
Also, is not all sin sin? For example, if I plan and carry out a lie, is that just as serious -- a high hand in the Face of the Almighty? The difference possibly being that divorce puts another in the position of being more likely to sin?
What if you decided to try to save the marriage. What if you reassessed him and life with him and deliberately worked for the marriage. I bring this up, because I did it in my marriage. In this one marriage, I had to do it several times, until he got it right. Seriously. Going from hatred for him to us being happy together for the last @ 10 years. Happy together. I wrote HAPPY together!! He has solidly proven himself over and over, especially through the last three years. Especially through this year! It can be done, if you are determined!
Also, is not all sin sin? For example, if I plan and carry out a lie, is that just as serious -- a high hand in the Face of the Almighty? The difference possibly being that divorce puts another in the position of being more likely to sin?
What if you decided to try to save the marriage. What if you reassessed him and life with him and deliberately worked for the marriage. I bring this up, because I did it in my marriage. In this one marriage, I had to do it several times, until he got it right. Seriously. Going from hatred for him to us being happy together for the last @ 10 years. Happy together. I wrote HAPPY together!! He has solidly proven himself over and over, especially through the last three years. Especially through this year! It can be done, if you are determined!
The OP and your post here bring this Scripture to mind. Hebrews 10:26-27
“For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.”
Knowing that something is sin and doing it is not obeying the Gospel. I looked up the Greek word for "deliberately" and it also carries with it another interpretation that means the same thing, "intentionally". So knowing that divorce is not God's will, by the Scripture above there would be no sacrifice for that sin, when one does it know the truth. Does this mean you are going to hell for it? NO!!!
Here is another portion of Scripture to consider I Corinthians 3:11-15 “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.15 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.”
Also tourist, brought up a very good point, submisson is not slavery. Here's an 11 minute video that will help understand submission.
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/six-things-submission-is-not