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29 kwi 2024 · While his teaching seems to clearly prohibit almost all divorce and cast post-divorce remarriage as an act of adultery, there is good reason to look deeper into the larger biblical narrative. When we hear Jesus' words on this issue within the biblical narrative, two key points will emerge.
What Jesus Taught about Marriage and Divorce - When Jesus had finished talking, He went from the country of Galilee. He came to the part of the country of Judea which is on the other side of the Jordan ...
Jesus’s statement restricts the husband in two ways: it eliminates “any cause” divorce, and it teaches that men can be guilty of adultery against their wives. Before this, adultery was considered a crime against another man.
Jesus’ teaching on divorce and remarriage. The American edition of Jesus and Divorce appeared in 1985 with the subtitle The Problem with the Evangelical Consensus.1 What is that consensus? The majority of evangelicals believe that Jesus permits remarriage after divorce for marital unfaithfulness (Matt 5:32; 19:9) and that
Jesus teaches that marriage is foundational to a healthy society and emphasizes the civil, not sacramental, nature of marriage. He supports equitable divorce to avoid worse outcomes and highlights the significant spiritual and developmental roles of parenting.
How does Jesus’ view on divorce differ from the Mosaic Law? While Mosaic Law permits divorce under certain conditions, Jesus highlights that this was a concession due to human failings. Jesus redirects the focus to God’s original intention for marriage to be a lifelong, unbreakable union.
15 mar 2020 · Some argue that the disciples’ response proves that Jesus’s standard must have been even stricter than Shammai’s “divorce on the grounds of adultery” view; the disciples’ reaction proves that Jesus advocated a “no divorce once the marriage has been consummated” position. 1
