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Debate:Why do Moses, Ezra, Jesus, and Paul all disagree on divorce? (view source)
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==Interesting title, terrible first comments!==
Well, firstly, each of these four people don't disagree on the divorce. Firstly, Moses was given by God an allowance of a certificate of divorce, yet Jesus clarified that later that it was due to their hard heartedness, and then he reiterated the statement "that is why a man will leave his mother and father and stick to his wife and become ONE (not ONE OR MORE) flesh.
Ezra also showed that the marriages to the nations were against the laws of Moses, in that they had unlawfully married. Therefore, to equate it to today's terms, the marriages were annulled, and worse than that, illegal. If a person did this today in most countries, they would be imprisoned.
Then we come to Jesus, who stated what was written above. He also stated though that divorce was ONLY permitted on the grounds of fornication (sexual immorality on the part of the other party), and didn't state they HAD to divorce, but that it was permitted. As for Paul, he also shows that divorcing is wrong. The problem with the understanding here is that the difference between a separation and a divorce are two different things. Paul's information about the unbelieving husband/wife leaving never mentioned that they could remarry, did it. It only showed that if the party wanted to leave, they were free to let them leave. Still, for them to marry without any grounds of fornication would in ITSELF be an act of fornication.
So hopefully this clears up a little bit of stuff. It isn't disagreement, as ultimately, it isn't Moses, Ezra, Jesus or even Paul who have the saying that JEHOVAH, or God has hated a divorcing...yet he's permitted it due to mankind's sinfulness. It isn't right, but it happens. Also, any legal divorce not based on a scriptural reason is technically not a divorce at all unless for fornication. If mankind was faithful, then there would never have been a divorce.