Did you know that God ordained divorce as surely as he ordained marriage in the books of Moses? \u00a0Jesus referenced Moses when he discussed divorce. \u00a0If one spouse fears the other may leave it keeps them in check and requires both spouses to submit to each other to the degree necessary to maintain a healthy relationship but not to submit to the point they are so miserable they would rather leave. \u00a0With a divorce for a valid reason the spouse may find themselves better off than if they stayed married. \u00a0Divorce is an act of unfaithfulness except for numerous valid reasons listed in scripture<\/p>\n
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If your spouse treats you like a jerk and is unfaithful (not sexually unfaithful necessarily there are numerous other kinds of ill conduct to broad to list in full) there is no need to put up with it, but if you divorce your spouse over a trivial act of unfaithfulness like burnt toast due to negligence you may find your next spouse even worse so this brings impetus for mercy in spite of the ability to drop ones spouse at the tip of a hat. \u00a0In spite of the potential for good divorce can sometimes be a sin because if you promised a life commitment unless certain unfortunate disclaimers occur and you divorce for invalid reasons you were unfaithful. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I suggest couples planning on marriage do not take the UBF and Roman Catholic traditional marriage vows nor get a marriage certificate from the “state” (unless under duress from the state such as in Muslim countries where failure to have it may lead to punish for intimacy, etc.) they are contrary to the provisions for divorce in the Bible. \u00a0If you got married and were misled by a third party into taking vows that both you and your spouse regret that maybe valid grounds to redo your agreement in a mutually agreeable way. \u00a0Research what the biblical divorce provisions are from a wide variety of viewpoints b<\/span>efore getting married and make the marriage agreement the way you and your partner want not the way a clergyperson or state bureaucrat or relative or other individual tells you with blind faith. \u00a0These vows have trapped people in abuse, lifelong isolation, \u00a0unquenchably painful burning passions with no remedy and poverty all contrary to the original intent of scripture in my viewpoint. \u00a0I suggest you research it yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n many civil marriage vows are adapted from the traditional vows, taken from the Book of Common Prayer<\/a>, “To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.”[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marriage_vows<\/a><\/p>\n Accessed from this website on 2017 March 25<\/p>\n \u00b6<\/span><\/p>\n 10\u00a0<\/sup>If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her [a<\/a>]<\/sup>food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.<\/span> 11\u00a0<\/sup>If he will not do these three things<\/i> for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of<\/i> money.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Exodus 21:10<\/a>Lit flesh \u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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