Since creation humankind has been tempted by Satan, the great deceiver, to sin. The presence of evil separates us from experiencing the peace and joy found in the eternal love of our Creator. In Matthew 19: 3-12 and again in Mark 10: 2-12 Jesus was tempted by the Pharisees. Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?” Jesus answered them with a question: “What did Moses say in the law about divorce?” “Well, he permitted it,” they replied. “He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away.” But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts. But “God made them male and female” from the beginning of creation. …show more content…
A certificate of divorce gave her at least the right to remarry. In Jesus time, the debate was not about whether women should have the same rights. The debate was about the meaning of the words ‘displease’ and ‘indecent’. There were two schools of thought. The school of Shammai was very strict, and held that ‘something indecent’ meant adultery and nothing less. The school of Hillel emphasized the clause ‘becomes displeasing to him, and said that a man could divorce his wife if there were anything he disliked about her anything at all. In Jesus’ time, divorce had become common, and women had no rights in divorce. It wasn’t no fault; it was ‘women’s fault’. The only grounds upon which a woman was permitted to divorce her husband were if he were a leper, a tanner, or a …show more content…
God’s mercy has made provision for our hard hearts and sinful nature. Provision for marriages which may not only fall short of the ideal but miss it entirely. Jesus points out one specific example: adultery, marital unfaithfulness so clearly destroys the fabric of a marriage. The same can be said for other situations in marriages where there is constant fighting and anger, where the pain of being together causes nothing but bitterness in a person’s heart, divorce may indeed be the lesser of two evils – better than daily committing murder in one’s heart. Certainly God does not will you 4. to stay in an abusive marriage, for that is no marriage. If you are in a marriage where you are being abused. IT IS NOT GOD’s WILL for you to stay and suffer degradation or physical battering. That is a violation of the very essence of what God created marriage to be. If you are divorced, hear this loud and clear: God loves you desires to heal