Practically every Christian who takes the word of God even half-seriously would agree that divorce is a bad thing. Most Christians would even say it is evil. In the book of Malachi God says “I hate divorce.” But something overlooked in most discussions about it in Scripture is not just that God intended marriage to be until death… that’s too neutral a conclusion when it comes to what the Bible says. No, divorce is against the created order, therefore, it is against God.
When the Pharisees asked Jesus about divorce He told them to go back to what was written, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, and said, ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’?” When we read the account of creation we find that God saw all He had made and declared it “very good” (Gen 1:31). So from the very beginning, all the way to creation, man and woman have been decreed by God to be together (one flesh). And lest there be any confusion about whether or not that one flesh can ever legitimately separate, Jesus adds in this discourse, “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
That last statement is in the form of a command. The so-called exception clause in the following verses is not an exception in the least, but an indictment against the sins of the Israelites. (Note: I’m working on a post, perhaps a series, on marriage, divorce, and permanence.)
All in all, we as Christians are always eager to preach against homosexuality, pedophilia, beastiality, transgender/transsexuals, and many other forms of sexual immorality, but divorce is just as much against the created order as those things, and thus, divorce is just as much against God.



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