"No-Fault Divorce" from Bible Contexts

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Jesus was asked about divorce for “any cause” – a type of no-fault divorce that was new and popular at the time. Jesus rejected it, but he didn’t reject the Old Testament grounds for divorce: adultery, abuse, and abandonment. 

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[Isaac Koch]

I respectfully disagree. Here's an attachment - call it the tip of the iceberg, if you will. Thanks for opening up the topic!

https://www.scribd.com/document/583820200/Hello-Defendant-Dad

[David Instone-Brewer]

Could you summarise the issue you are highlighting please? 

David

On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, 7:21 pm Isaac Koch, <mrkoch...@gmail.com> wrote:

I respectfully disagree. Here's an attachment - call it the tip of the iceberg, if you will. Thanks for opening up the topic!

https://www.scribd.com/document/583820200/Hello-Defendant-Dad

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[Isaac Koch]

Yes. There are three reasons the Lord is displeased with divorce for any reason except adultery:

1. It mixes the children. The children are properly attached to their fathers. Their hearts pull mother’s heart in several directions. The result is an undermining of discipline. Is. 57:4, Mal. 2:15.

2. Never before in history, that I am aware, has a nation destroyed marriage and survived. We think of marriage as a contract to be physically exclusive until death. Our unique government by contract (constitution) depends on the government recognizing the citizen’s preeminent power to contract. A little-recognized case, Ogden v. Saunders (1827), perverted the government’s understanding of this. The justices, I believe, confused the power to contract with the power to pass bankruptcy law. Since the states delegated, but did not surrender, the power to pass bankruptcy law, they reasoned, the states retained the power to change contracts (unconstitutional). Another case, Maynard v. Hill (1888), decided the legislature is THE sovereign, perhaps importing an English mistake, and forgot that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land: the expression of the sovereign People. 

Bottom line: divorce, unless the contract is already broken by infidelity, is an obvious lie. You can’t love someone for life when the love’s promised to someone else living. It’s false.

3. Whoever will teach men falsely will be least in the kingdom. Mt. 5:29. Whoever causes a little one who believes in Jesus to sin, he’s better off drowned instead. Mk. 9:42. Actually marrying a person with a spouse living (even when your friends condone it) is terrifying.

[Isaac Koch]

Edit: Drowned, I believe, in the deepest ocean.

[This edit was posted earlier to an incorrect address.]