Divorce loop hole?

[fastfredy0]

I was watching a COPS-like show and this woman hired a hit man to kill her husband who happened to be a preacher. This poll question came to mind.
Aside: Hit man was an under cover cop.

 

[EarlyActs]

"A marriage can survive adultery, but it cannot survive spite." --Rabbi Prager. This is a practical alternate to the 1.5 reasons given by the apostles (adultery and departure from faith in I Cor 7). Obviously there is spite if there is attempted murder. Every step should be taken to explore and correct that. I would think that beating a woman would also be a ground, unless there is a certain indication of remorse and correction after warning by Christian leaders.

 

[David1701]

"A marriage can survive adultery, but it cannot survive spite." --Rabbi Prager. This is a practical alternate to the 1.5 reasons given by the apostles (adultery and departure from faith in I Cor 7). Obviously there is spite if there is attempted murder. Every step should be taken to explore and correct that. I would think that beating a woman would also be a ground, unless there is a certain indication of remorse and correction after warning by Christian leaders.

There's only one ground given for divorce, in the NT - that is fornication (N. B. the word used is not the one specifically for adultery). This exception would have been during the legally binding betrothal period, not afterwards.

 

[Fred]

Desertion as well (1 Cor. 7:15).

I wonder if this is a form of desertion.

 

[fastfredy0]

LOL at @Carbon for selecting "only if she tries more than once"

 

[fastfredy0]

I wonder if this is a form of desertion.

Definitely desertion if the murder is successful .... but no spouses in heaven.

 

[Carbon]

LOL at @Carbon for selecting "only if she tries more than once"

Well. The first attempt could have been an accident. No?

 

[fastfredy0]

Well. The first attempt could have been an accident. No?

Ah, your gullibility may get you killed.

 

[David1701]

1 Cor. 7:10-16 (WEB)
10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

This is absolutely not an excuse for a Christian to divorce a spouse who leaves! It is simply saying that you don't have to try to keep an unbelieving spouse living with you, who wants to leave, but can let that person leave.

 

[Fred]

15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

This is absolutely not an excuse for a Christian to divorce a spouse who leaves! It is simply saying that you don't have to try to keep an unbelieving spouse living with you, who wants to leave, but can let that person leave.

Thus, the innocent party is in "bondage" because of the actions of the offending party.

 

[David1701]

Thus, the innocent party is in "bondage" because of the actions of the offending party.

The not being under bondage is, in context, in respect to not having to try to keep the unbeliever living with you.

 

[Fred]

The not being under bondage is, in context, in respect to not having to try to keep the unbeliever living with you.

They are in bondage in that they are not allowed to remarry. Thus, they may burn with passion and because of the fault of the offending party the innocent party is being punished.
That is bondage.

 

[David1701]

They are in bondage in that they are not allowed to remarry. Thus, they may burn with passion and because of the fault of the offending party the innocent party is being punished.
That is bondage.

It's a kind of bondage (just as all marriage is a bond between husband and wife) but the not the kind referred to in the passage.

 

[Fred]

It's a kind of bondage (just as all marriage is a bond between husband and wife)

You linked two thoughts that are not similar in that one has purposefully left the bonds of marriage leaving the other in bondage that they can not marry

 

[David1701]

You linked two thoughts that are not similar in that one has purposefully left the bonds of marriage leaving the other in bondage that they can not marry

The marriage bond persists, if the spouse is still alive, whether the person is present or not. This is why separation is different from divorce.

 

[Fred]

The marriage bond persists, if the spouse is still alive, whether the person is present or not. This is why separation is different from divorce.

If the party who left remarries is the innocent party to the first marriage still bound?