{"id":3211,"date":"2025-07-31T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:42:58","slug":"the-clearest-biblical-reasons-to-hold-the-no-divorce-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"The Clearest Biblical Reasons to Hold the \u201cNo Divorce\u201d Position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Paul illustrates the exclusivity of salvation in Christ alone by the \u201cno divorce\u201d position (Romans 7:1-4). Any other position on divorce contradicts Paul\u2019s theology here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christ\u2019s marriage to the church is a picture of the permanence of the earthly marriage bond (Ephesians 5:32).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesus explicitly forbids divorce (Luke 16:18 and Mark 10:2-12).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul prohibits divorce 4 times explicitly without any mention of Jesus\u2019 \u201cexception\u201d (1 Corinthians 7:10-13).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hosea did not divorce Gomer though she left him for other men. Should there be less fidelity in the New Covenant? (Hosea 1:2-3; 2:1-5; and 3:1-3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jehovah pleads with His wife to return, still maintains His covenant with her, and still says He is married to her even after giving her a certificate of divorce (Jeremiah 3:8, 12, 14, 22).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jehovah hates divorce (Malachi 2:16).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The two possible \u201cexceptions\u201d (Matt. 19:9 and 1 Cor. 7:15) both include explicit prohibitions against divorce in their immediate contexts (Matt. 19:6 and 1 Cor. 7:10-13).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[535],"tags":[259,575],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","tag-divorce","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QrZa-PN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}