Matthew 19:7
They
say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and
to put her away?
Typical of mankind, the
Pharisees over-stressed the Word of God while under-stressing the practice of
it. They insisted that Moses had commanded divorce in certain situations. Fact
was Moses allowed for it but did not command it.[1]
These sorts of
misrepresentations of the Word of God are common among men. We tend to press a
teaching of the Bible to an extreme not so we might better obey it but so we
might have justification for disobeying it. There is a letter of the law that
kills. There is a spirit associated with that same law that gives life.
We should take the Word of God
honestly and literally, which means we revere it enough to neither add to nor
take away from what it literally says.
When a man
hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour
in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write
her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his
house.
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