The divorce and remarriage question

[deut31:12]

I would hope everyone is sympathetic concerning what your husband has put you through. Simply having to deal with infidelity is bad enough, but having your spouse become a homosexual would have to be worse. You are the victim in your marriage, and I can't understand why anyone, from a personal standpoint or Biblical standpoint would think you should have to remain in that kind of a marriage? This has nothing to do with Paul's teachings verses Jesus' teachings. The Bible states that fornication, which includes adultery, are grounds for divorce.

One thing, too, nobody expects anybody to stay in a bad marriage, but what this discussion is on is if people can remarry. The only two things that the bible allows people to remarry for is if our spouse is dead or if we put them away for infidelity. If they were abusive or were doing things that we can't live with and choose to leave them then the only choices given to us is to either reconcile ourselves with them or stay unmarried. I think this is why so many people are having a hard time with this is because they do not want to stay unmarried.

Malachi indicates that God hates "putting away." I don't think he wants couples to divorce. His ideal is for them to work things out. With regard to everything else you said, I completely agree.

You have to remember what people were doing when Malachi wrote that. Men could put away their wives for any reason and Jesus said they did it out of the lusts of their hearts.

When Jesus was here he put divorce back the way it was intended for it to be. The only way you can put away your spouse and remarry is if they cheated on you. You can put away your spouse for abuse, porn, witchcraft, etc., Yes, God hates the fact that marriages are breaking up, but does not expect people to live in a bad marriage, and, also, you can't remarry unless the reason was for adultery. Paul said that we are to reconcile ourselves back together with our spouse or remain unmarried.

Another thing that frees us up to remarry is if our spouse is dead.