When I read the "Lake of Fire" series....I felt that I had finally found what I had been looking for....someone skilled in handling the truth of God's Word....it was life changing and very refreshing....many of you may have also experienced the same....well....on the divorce issue....if you are ready to stand on your own two feet and answer what the "church" and the "world" says about divorce....I might offer this source to you for a start...
"Divorce..God's Will?" by Stephen Gola ....his email is info@divorcehope.com I'll let you take it from there, I'm not here to promote his book, but it makes radical sense! Remember: God cares more for the people in an institution than the institution itself....He not only gave the wives of his people to other men (I'll quote it below) but He divorced Israel himself! (see also below):
"Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them:..." Jeremiah 8:10 KJV
"And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also." Jeremiah 3:8 KJV
When God joins two sepparate people in marriage... they become one...sometimes, I think that we forget that God still has the right and ability to take the Sword and divide them again; sometimes to save the children (not hurt them) sometimes to save one or both of the individuals....and sometimes to heal them to the point sepperately that they can come together again, as one. Are we not, indeed, being taken out of "the harlot" ourselves right now? And for what purpose? So that we can be joined in marriage to Christ? Like all the other "evil" and "hard" things that God uses to chasten us and purify us...sometimes divorce is necessary!
One last point....it was the bill of divorcement that posed the problem in the New Testament....not the actual divorce itself. Let me know what you think. joyful1[/i]