Divorce is rejection of God

[iLOVE]

Yes, I know God loves the unbeliever, but that is not the subject of reply.

You said that if a believer has placed God first, then their marriage is covered by God’s grace, and that it will hit rock bottom if the believer does not have God first.

So if I may ask again; ‘What about the unbelieving spouse, who chooses to leave?’
We need to be very careful about what we say or write on such matters, because there is a danger that our unscriptural fairy stories, may cause a brother or sister to stumble.

Just to say also, that I know very many couples who not only do not put God first, but even totally reject Him, and yet in many cases, I would say that their marriages are truly blessed, or at least nowhere near rock bottom.

Please quote what you have read correctly.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

We have to be reminded so often in the world we live in these days that God says to leave a spouse and marry another is adultery. And the scriptures do say that not controlling your body in regard to sexually sinning against another person that way is rejecting God:


3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit." (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 NIV1984)

The mistake would be to broad stroke all people involved in a divorce as sinning and make them guilty before God without knowing who the guilty party actually is in a divorce.

 

[D2wing]

I stand corrected.