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makes known because of being defrauded this is a legal cause for the one defrauded to seek an
annulment or divorce if he or she chooses to do it.
The Sanctity of Marriage between Man and Woman
The Pharisees attempted to entrap Jesus Christ by asking Him about marriage as it had been in
Old Testament times:
Matthew 19:3-6, 9 “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason
(
Deuteronomy 24:1
)?” And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who
made them at the beginning made them male and female,’ “and said, ‘For this reason a
man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become
one flesh’? “So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined
together, let not man separate.” . . . And I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife except
for sexual immorality (
Porneia, translated KVV: Fornication
) and marries another commits
adultery. And whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
God has not entered the marriages of the world. After having driven Adam and Eve out of
the Garden in Eden,
Keeping the Marriage Vows
Jesus Christ led the Apostle
Paul to write further about the bond of marriage between husband
and wife in God’s true Church who find themselves in very difficult problems:
I Corinthians 7:10-11 “Now to the married, I command, and yet not I but the Lord, a wife
is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried
or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.”
This Scripture is speaking of a man and woman whose marriage God has entered into and
blessed.
Matthew 19:6 “. . . Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
This Scripture makes known that God has not entered into nor bound the marriages of this world
– only those who truly belong to Him as members of His true Church. This is made clear by God
having driven Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden due to choosing the tree of good and evil
by which they chose to rule their lives in all areas including marriages by human reason instead
of by the revealed truths of God (
Genesis 3:1-24
).
The results can be seen in the marriages today or the lack of them and all the many problems
stemming from them.
Please review the writing of the 5
th
Commandment to give better understanding of the many
problems facing families and society today because of the violating of both the 5
th
and the 7
th
commandments.
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