Is it lawful to put away a mate for every cause?

Ancient people of lascivious lifestyles answered with adamant affirmatives. Thirty-

five centuries ago Moses wrote out divorce edicts for Physical Israel (Deuteronomy

24:1ff). Jesus looked back on such legislation as linked with hardness of human

hearts (Matthew 19:7,8). Men in Malachi’s era favored the divorce system. They

were dealing treacherously against the wives of their youth. Jehovah thundered

against such husbands of hardness. He thundered His hatred toward such devilish

dissolutions of unions He had bound together (Malachi 2:14-16). Preceding Christ

by only a few years Hillel and other liberal Jewish rabbis taught marriage could be

dissolved on the most flimsy of grounds such as burning the bread, seeing and want-

ing a more desirable mate, etc. Maritally misguided Pharisees with loose links to-

ward matrimonial loyalty and longevity asked the Lord this very question in Mat-

thew 19:3.

Jesus said ONE cause (fornication – Matthew 19:9) and one cause only would permit

the innocent one to put away the guilty party and to enter marriage with another who

is eligible. Men and women who ignore such Divine directives as these are flirting

with eternal damnation in a devil’s hell.

Jesus forever settled the above question. No, it is not lawful to put away a mate for

every cause. Listen to Jesus, “And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his

wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and

whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery” (Matthew 19:9).

Ken Tyler