What Scripture do Protestants cite to support divorce and remarriage?

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I’m just curious what Biblical support they have to support their belief that it’s okay to divorce and then marry someone else. I believe all Protestant faiths believe this so I’m guessing they cite Biblical verses to support their belief. Thanks.
 
donnyblake said:
I’m just curious what Biblical support they have to support their belief that it’s okay to divorce and then marry someone else. I believe all Protestant faiths believe this so I’m guessing they cite Biblical verses to support their belief. Thanks.
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Maybe they look at the verse where Jesus states…‘unless it is unlawful,’ as supporting divorce and remarriage. It’s possibly that they convince themselves that their marriages are unlawful (invalid?) and thereby supports their views.
 
Protestants will often times ask a Catholic " where does it say that in the Bible?" Many don’t even celebrate the Eucharist symbolicly. But Jesus clearly says in the Bible to "eat this bread and drink this blood in memory of me!’.
PS. PLEASE forgive my spelling.
 
I was raised a Protestant, and when I was 5, my dad had an affair with a member of another church…that congregation knew he was married with a little daughter, but didn’t seem to care. They even threw the adulteress a wedding shower while my parents were still legally married! (My parents “divorced” when I was 6.)

When I was about 11, I read the Bible and highlighted every passsage against remarriage/divorce/adultery. I showed all of these passages to an adult in church one Sunday, and pointblank asked her how Christians could condone something that was clearly against the Bible. She hemmed and hawed, and didn’t give me a substantive answer.

However, talking with other Protestants, I have heard some point to a passage saying adultery is grounds for divorce. (Forget passage) However, I do know that that passage was taken out of context.

Most of the time, I hear Protestants support divorce by arguing that even though divorce/remarriage is wrong (some won’t even admit it’s wrong at all, though), it’s only a one-time sin, and not a perpetual state of sin. That’s how my father explains it away too…saying that it was a sin when he divorced my mom, and I guess on the day of his remarriage…but after that point in time, all of a sudden it magically became okay, and God accepted him and his new “wife” after that. I think this ties in to the Protestant theory “once saved, always saved”…it doesn’t matter what one DOES, or whether they obey spiritual rules…do what you want and still go to Heaven! Which of course is ridiculous…and dangerous to souls.
 
coffeelover said:
Most of the time, I hear Protestants support divorce by arguing that even though divorce/remarriage is wrong (some won’t even admit it’s wrong at all, though), it’s only a one-time sin, and not a perpetual state of sin. That’s how my father explains it away too…saying that it was a sin when he divorced my mom, and I guess on the day of his remarriage…but after that point in time, all of a sudden it magically became okay, and God accepted him and his new “wife” after that. I think this ties in to the Protestant theory “once saved, always saved”…it doesn’t matter what one DOES, or whether they obey spiritual rules…do what you want and still go to Heaven! Which of course is ridiculous…and dangerous to souls.
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Coffeelover, I think you have it exactly right. If all your sins are forgiven–past, present and future–it is impossible to live in a state of sin no matter what you are actually doing. This example illustrates like no other the absurdity of OSAS (or “eternal security” as many prefer to call it).
 
If you look at divorce and remarriage from just a natural law perspective, it brings a lot of disorder into the world.

It’s not a matter simply between two spouses or between you and God. It affects children, the nuclear family, extended family, neighbors, and society at large.

Even atheists can recognize this.
 
Great questions for protestants. Not many answers.

Matt. 19 has some of this biblical information regarding diviorce in the words of Christ.

How do they (protestants) justify allowing the state to say that a marriage never occured in the case of divorce when it is God that blesses the marriage? How can the state speak for God?

In protestant marriage services doesn’t the minister say, “what God has joined, let no man put asunder” as part of the exchanging of vows? What do protestants think that means anyway?
 
coffeelover said:
I was raised a Protestant, and when I was 5, my dad had an affair with a member of another church…that congregation knew he was married with a little daughter, but didn’t seem to care. They even threw the adulteress a wedding shower while my parents were still legally married!
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This reminds me of my uncle.

He was a Baptist.

He lived with his girlfriend. Said that it was adultery to re-marry. (Apparently, co-habitating avoided this ‘sin’)

When he was ‘ready’ to be ordained a minister, he was told he had to marry before that could happen.

He died a Reverend.
 
Try explaining divorce to a 5-year old kid whose parents about to break and call it quits.
 
nilofc said:
Try explaining divorce to a 5-year old kid whose parents about to break and call it quits.
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Actually,

Having been in the position of explaining adult relationships to small children with huge minds,

I would rather explain divorce to a child than try to explain marriage to a child whose parents never married.
 
Apryl said:
Actually,

Having been in the position of explaining adult relationships to small children with huge minds,

I would rather explain divorce to a child than try to explain marriage to a child whose parents never married.
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Fornication and Divorce are grave sins. All sins are despicable.

Trying to explain marriage to a child is your duty or have you forgotten about evangelization?

God Bless you my brother.
 
Apryl said:
I never said I wouldn’t do it, only that I would rather explain one situation over the other.

Thank you.

But that’s ‘sister’ in this case
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Well I prefer to explain marriage to the child. maybe, just maybe, he’d influence his parents to obtain the sacrament.

Planting seeds.

I prefer to bring the good news rather than to explain how a wrong is suppose to be the best for them.

But I do respect your opinion and I know that yours is right.

God Bless you my sister.
 
nilofc said:
I prefer to bring the good news rather than to explain how a wrong is suppose to be the best for them.
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I also prefer to point out the good, the right, to point in the direction I would rather one to go, than to point out the wrongs that should be avoided.

I believe that there are such things as Right and Wrong, and they should be shared with others.

We live in a society that has many challenges. This is just one of the smaller ones.
 
Protestant marriage is not sacramental as is Catholic marriage; that has a lot to do with it.
 
Why don’t Protestants accept marriage as a sacrament, anyway?

Marriage has been devalued so much in modern times. And as the saying goes, “you give them an inch, they take a mile.” It seems to only get worse. 😦

I see Protestantism as a way to spiritually get away with anything you want to. Just invoke the “personal interpretation clause”…wreck your marriage, or defy whatever rules you don’t personally like.

People seem to want to present Christian airs, saying they’re Christian but not having to act like Christians have been expected to act since Christianity began…claiming the name of “Christian” without the daily effort. (Of course, we are all guilty of this at times, myself included.)
 
coffeelover said:
Why don’t Protestants accept marriage as a sacrament, anyway?

Marriage has been devalued so much in modern times. And as the saying goes, “you give them an inch, they take a mile.” It seems to only get worse. 😦

I see Protestantism as a way to spiritually get away with anything you want to. Just invoke the “personal interpretation clause”…wreck your marriage, or defy whatever rules you don’t personally like.
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Well, yes and no. I’ve heard/read statistics that Catholics are not any more or less likely to get a divorce based on the sacramentality or not of marriage. I’m sure there are other surveys that would support the opposite.

But, that does not negate the sacramental value of marriage to dedicated participants, nor does non-sacramentality diminish the seriousness of the commitment for committed Protestants.

Agreed, though, that (too) many use the “it’s not in the Bible” and the “personal interpretation of scripture” loophole to justify their actions.

That’s what’s so cool about having Tradition. 👍

-N2
 
donnyblake said:
I’m just curious what Biblical support they have to support their belief that it’s okay to divorce and then marry someone else. I believe all Protestant faiths believe this so I’m guessing they cite Biblical verses to support their belief. Thanks.
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It is called Protestant Sacred Tradition:cool:

The rosary rules:thumbsup:
 
The funny thing that rarely gets mentioned here is that the Catholic Church’s teachings on divorce and remarriage are what cause a TON of people to leave the Church in the first place.

They leave the Church not because they come to disbelieve in Mary or the sacraments, apostolic succession, etc, but simply because they want what they want more than God wants. The Catholic Church won’t let me remarry, but the Presbyterian Church on the other side of town will let me remarry, so I’ll choose subjective truth and leave the one true Church.

The views of man become more important than the authoritative teachings of God. And therefore, they reject God Himself.

It’s sad, really.😦
 
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