The person that wrote the paper you posted has the problem of assumsion.
That is to say he assumes to much.
The argument that he is trying to make has already been disproven
in the 2 papers that I posted.
Look at the first part of his post. He tries to make his argument
that Jesus is allowing for divorce because of adultery as the famous “exception clause”
in Matthew 19:9. Jesus is not making that exception or it would
contradict other scripture. The person that wrote your paper needs to
read the entire context.
This is what I wrote in my paper:
MT 19:8 Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
Historically Moses had to be the Judge over the land long ago, “It was a dirty job sometimes, but someone had to do it”. Along with being the Judge came responsibility and questions of divorce from the people surrounding him. Jesus did not say whether Moses was right or wrong in making the divorce decree, Jesus merely stated the fact that Moses made the divorce decree allowable because the people’s hearts were hard. Jesus then expanded upon that and stated “But it was not this way from the beginning.” In other words, divorce is not in Gods original design for marriage. That reminds me of someone else’s heart who was hard… Exodus 7:13 Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
MT 19:9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."
Jesus is not agreeing with or allowing divorce in this statement, if fact if you were caught in adultery you didn’t divorce your wife… she would have been stoned by the hardhearted people. Jesus is once again stating a fact here that has historical value. A divorce certificate was not made to benefit the man from divorcing his wife, a divorce certificate was given to the wife to prove that she was not guilty of adultery. Once again, she would have been stoned for adultery, that was their way.
John 8:7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
Sarcastically speaking to the pro-choice (pro-divorce) people, why divorce your wife, when you can just stone her, but be sure to harden your heart good and plenty first.
MT 19:10 The disciples said to him, "If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry." MT 19:11 Jesus replied, "Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.
Ah, so true, but the response of so many in the World today is: I can always remarry if this one doesn’t work out.
What would you do with this verse?
Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
