Divorce
Audra writes:
I reserve the right the recant this one...but am just seeing a verse in a new way. Is it possible that in Matthew 5:32 when Jesus is discussing HIS views on divorce, he is not listing "unchastity" as an appropriate reason to get a divorce (as I've always been taught), but rather gives the exception of unchastity because in that case the husband did not make his wife an adulterer...she had done that for herself? So there is no reason that is ok for divorce in that verse, but rather clarification that whoever chooses to be leave the relationship is the one responsible for their own unchastity?
Something for Monday morning...
3 Comments:
Ok, I need to chew on that for a day or so. It is an interesting insight. Let's talk about it on Monday.
10:22 AM
Is it possible that the reason Jesus speaks so restrictively on divorce is that the issue isn't divorce anyway? Matt. 19 has the disciples asking, "Why would anyone ever want to marry!?! Perhaps it's one of those, "You've heard it said divorce is okay when ________, but I tell you divorce isn't even the issue! It's adultery! And there is NOT certificate of Adultery - just death."
Hah, certificate of adultery! That's like a business license for prostitution. Funny, Jesus introduced the world to business licenses :-)
7:04 AM
um. yea.. once again i find that just because i've been taught that something in the Bible means ___, it may not mean that at all. we may have been missing the point all this time - and beCUZ of the teaching we have received. i have read your post over a few times, and read the scripture also. it is churning inside. i do think that people want to find the loopholes, and have used that verse in that way. (i think we, as humans, do want to find loopholes and justifications for the way we behave sometimes... often really). hmmm. a certificate of adultery. very interesting. i really dont have anything to add, i'm discovering.. but just wanted to let you know your post provoked thought. :o) thanks
10:26 PM
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