"I hate divorce," says the Lord, the God of Israel,There's no clarity lacking in that short statement is there? There's nothing to be found about the pain of divorce here either, nor anywhere else in scripture. But that's how Satan works. He twists what God says. It is a familiar tactic, indeed the one he used to bring down the human race:
(Mal 2:16)
"Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?" (Gen 3:1)Notice Satan isn't sinister sounding here, or apparently not even repulsive. He just twists God's words ever so slightly so that they say something God never said. That's what this meme does too. It is based on feelings and man-centered theology. At the heart of it is the insinuation that man is basically good and his not being distraught (experience pain) is the goal of God's love. This view is eternally disastrous and dangerous. If man actually is deserving of God's love, then how do we reconcile that with what the Bible says is the eternal destiny of those who reject his Son? Such a view does not grasp the reality of man's position as a sinner before a holy and righteous God.
The Bible says that all men stand condemned before God and are objects of His wrath, divorced or not. But the Bible also presents us with Good News. It says that we may hide in the righteousness of God's one and only Son and thereby escape His wrath. The real question is not, does God love me in spite of my sin, but rather, have my sins been washed from God's sight by the blood of the Lamb? As the old Hymn, written in a time before man-centered theology had become predominate, says:
"Just as I am without one plea,
but that thy blood was shed for me".
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There you go appealing to Scripture again. What are we going to do with you!?!?
I know. As the whirlwinds intensify, my clinging to the steadfast scriptures become increasingly desperate.
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