What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage?

"What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage?"
Dr. Thomas Schreiner answers in Honest Answers | Episode 82

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[Lillian]

It’s very encouraging to see the comments here knowing how many Christians are NOT willing to compromise the truth even when pastors are saying it’s ok.

[marcellacrier]

This topic is so confusing and hurtful in many ways. I’m not going to go into too many details, but I’ve always felt like I was meant to be a wife. I wasn’t near a believer ( meaning lack of knowledge of a relationship with Jesus) when I married terribly young. It ended due to abuse and infidelity. Now that I have a relationship with Jesus, I’ve come to what it means to be married until death parts you. It is a hard pill to swallow especially marrying out of ignorance. I’ve cried so much about this. People say be strong, but most are happily married believers who made it. Many don’t understand being young with no prospects of being able to remarry. Then mixed messages on what’s allowed. It css as n drive you crazy.

[thomaskurek]

I will not say the last words what you say that Jesus said it is okay to get divorce and remarry, those are your words, let's be honest Bible is very clear about widows that can remarry but you will never find verse that is clear that you can remarry after you get divorce. I stick to the second opinion the divorced person must stay alone or reconcile to the spouse.

[danieldefonce]

A wife must not leave her husband. But if she does leave him, let her remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his wife.
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭7:10-11‬ ‭NLT

[Maeroa]

"Till Death Do Us Part" is a vow before God not only to your wife or husband

[renatodemorais]

Romans 7 seems pretty clear and to the point, and the funny thing is that he didn't "forget" to mention it.
The big problem for these seminarians today is trying to understand God through the lens of modern culture.

[JavierViramontesR]

Literally Jesus, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. I say to you, whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery.”

[David]

Bible clearly says divorcing a wife/husband and marrying another woman/man whilst their partners are alive is a sin

[samgourzis]

Divorce is acceptable for unrepented adultery. Every time remarriage is mentioned the word Adultery is right next to it.
Remarriage is Adultery. I've been divorced by my wife for 12yrs now.
I've remained single ever since.
Glory be to God.

[Razaiel]

"And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:9

[Mike-ffib]

I left my wife because she was disrespectful, degrading, non loving, and I belive involved with another woman. During divorce I discovered in addition to those things, she used my identity and sold 100% my fathers inheritance that he gave to me. That was his last dying will that she took from me. She also turned my kids against me. I asked the lord to fix my marriage or find me a loving submissive wife that respectsme as the husband. It turns out that her hidden secrets were revealed, and I completed the divorce process. I'm now remarried to a wonderful woman. I feared I did the wrong thing not knowing the word of God and I hope he will not reject me. I will never reject Jesus as my savior but I hope that I can be forgiven.

[gracel]

I'm a children's teacher at my church, let me tell you, people really underestimate what divorce and remarriage do to children, especially when they are condoned by the church. I've seen children become unbelievers because some other church accepted their father's or mother's remarriage. The thing is that you have a full time responsibility to your child, which you cannot possibly fulfill if you remarry and have a second family.

[michellebell]

Don't Stay in an abusive relationship. If you or your children are abused. Out you most Go.

[munoken]

When some dude says I think about something the Bible says, stop listening. The Bible is clear and if you ask a Jewish person about the betrothal period they will tell you as Jesus said in Matthew. Marriage is for life, nothing can break the covenant and only death of one of the spouses ends it. Do not be deceived.

[lowelldk]

You use a lot of “I think” in your explanations. What counts is what the word of God says, not someone’s opinion.

[garydunn]

At Mark 10 v 9 it tells us "What God has yolked together, let no man put apart" Many people
in this world today have a casual attitude towards marriage. When their relationship becomes
strained, most just give up and walk out on their marriage mate. That, however is not the
Christian way. (1 Corinthians 7 v 27) Breaking one's marriage vow is equivalent to to lying to
God, and God hates liars! (Leviticus 19 v 12, Proverbs 6 v 16--19) God also hates a treacherous
divorce. (Malachai 2 v 13--16) Jesus taught that the only scriptural ground for dissolving a
marriage vow, is when an innocent mate chooses not to forgive an adulterous partner. (Matthew
19 v 9, Hebrews 13 v 4) What, then, about separation? The bible is clear on this too. (1 Corinthians
7 v 10 and 11) Although the bible does not set out grounds for marital separation, some married
Christians however, have viewed certain situations as a reason for separation, such as the extreme
endangerment to one's life or spirituality by an abusive spouse.

[davidbenner]

What God puts together let no man take apart. We disagree here.

[JJ-cwnf]

People don't follow the bible meaning of marriage because it involves feelings. People don't want anyone telling them rules when love is involved. They put their relationship first. And then put the bible second, in an interpretation that fits their love life

[steenad]

We need to stop adding our own thoughts, there are reasons to seperate, but never to remarry, period. It makes you an adulterer and adultress.

[BrunoFernandesPinto]

If you can help me by answering the questions below, I would appreciate it.

1) I have not found a text that says that a MAN abandoned (passive) by his wife commits adultery if he marries another woman or that he should remain alone;

2) a woman abandoned, even for an unjust cause (Deut. 24), could remarry (she was not to be stoned as an adulteress, Deut. 22), except to priests (Lev. 21). After the coming of the Lord, the woman unjustly abandoned can no longer marry? Was there more freedom for the abandoned woman before? Jesus said that he would not repeal the Law given by His Father.

3) Why does the text about "divorce" (or separation) appear in Luke in the middle of texts about money?

4) Why is it believed that the union of one flesh is something ontological, and there are several passages in which it is demonstrated that this does not occur (Abraham and Hagar, marriage with foreigners, relations between relatives, Ex. 22, 17, I Cor. 5, I Cor .6, Deut. 24...)

5) The verbs allow and command are interchanged in Matthew 19 and Mark 10. Why does almost everyone who preaches Matthew 19 ignore this interchange in Mark 10?

6) Why do people ignore that the procedural question of the divorce certificate has value? Think with me: what was the penalty for adultery? Stoning? Not always. If there were no witnesses and she was guilty, the penalty for the same offense would be different, according to Num. 5. Why is it not noticed that God made this point in Isaiah 50 when asking where the divorce certificate would be?

7) if an unbeliever leaves his believing spouse and disappears in the world. In a short time, no one knows the whereabouts of the person, and not even if he is alive (the Brazilian Civil Code even regulates absence, by the way), the believing spouse would be prohibited from getting married permanently, because how would he know if the other died?

8) do you think that in Corinth there were no divorced people? If in Israel the concept of marriage was no longer there, in the Greek environment there was no divorce? Paul did not give the Corinthians any divorce decrees.

9) Paul told Timothy that doctrines of demons would arise: prohibition of marriages and food. Do you know anywhere banning food only to leaders? I am not. So why interpret that the ban on marriages that would arise would only be for leaders (as we usually interpret it, understanding Catholics in that position)?

10) Paul said in Romans 7 that the wife was bound to her husband unto death by the LAW, not by an indissoluble Neoplatonic ontological bond. The woman could be required by the man if he did not give her a certificate of divorce. But if he gave it, even if unjustly and because of the hardness of heart, she was not bound to him by the LAW. Paul used the rule to use a metaphor.

God bless you!