One issue that is debated in Christian circles is the grounds for which a person can get divorced. Here is a passage on the words of Jesus from Matthew 19:
And some Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all?”
And He answered and said , “Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, And said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
They say unto him, “Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate and divorce her?”
He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. And I say to you, Whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”
I want to focus on this last phrase which gets a lot of attention: “Whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”
If a person gets a divorce for a reason other than adultery, is it sin?
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