Bible Truth

Divorce Part 3

 

Fornication

The only reason for Christian divorce

This situation is exclusively for when both partners in a marriage are Christians, and is the only situation given where you can get a divorce that God will recognize and not count your new marriage as an adulterous relationship.

Mat 5:31-32 It was also said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. But I say to you that whoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her who is put away commits adultery.

What Marriage Involves & Why it is so important

The institution of biblical marriage is far more than a set of vows and a ceremony followed by a celebration. The whole point of marriage is a joining of the man and woman in a union which began in the Garden of Eden.

Gen 2:23-24 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.

Marriage is a covenant in which a man and a woman become joined mentally and spiritually as well as physically until one of them dies. The one flesh union creates a oneness that is an example of the oneness of God and spiritually, the one flesh union is a greater entity than the sum of the two individuals combined.

Mat 19:6 Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.

The union part is the physical joining of the bodies in sexual activity between the husband and the wife and the oneness that creates is representative of the unity of the body of Christ.

1Co 7:1-5 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfil his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Marriage should be sexually active except for when by mutual agreement you refrain in order to pray, (your fasting can include sex as well as food) but do not leave it too long before you resume relations so you are not open to external temptation.