Answer is No:
( caution: The Bible should be interpreted on the whole context and not
by excerpt)
Jesus said “Moses permitted you to divorce your
wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the
beginning. It can be understood impeccably if we would have read the bible on
the whole context. when they ask Jesus: Teacher, which is the great commandment
in the law? And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and
first commandment. And a second is like
it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”
So paraphrasing the above passage, one cannot serve
Christ or love if he divorces his wife/husband for the sake of adultery, whilst
it has been said in Matthew 5:32 because of immorality/sexual impurity. Yet one
has to understood the above said passage and we also read in Hosea, where the
lord ask Hosea to marry a prostitute and he questioned back the lord about
marrying a prostitute and the society impending questions, the lord’s response
was - didn’t I forgive your sins and accepted you back. Even Jeremiah goes on
saying the same in 3rd chapter. Though you’ve lived as a prostitute would you
now return to me?
But if you are divorcing him/her then you cause them
to be the victim of prostitution when they get married to another, furthermore
it can be said that there is no genuine love in the person who divorces.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you
get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what
are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that. Bless those who
curse you and love your enemies. Think of then, how much more you should love
your spouse when we are to love our enemies too.
Having said the above if you are really living a
Christ centered life you will start loving even the prostitutes, in old
testament one would fall under the transgression of law only when he commits
adultery physically but in new testament the bar/standard is raised as he would
be the victim of sin when he/she lust after it, so no human knows what is
loitering in human hearts, however the lord knew it. Yet his hand is stretched
and asking us to repent and come for reconciliation and never sin any more. So
we come to his throne by grace and not by our works.
Furthermore it is also said that we need to give
account of each and every single word spoken against men, so remember your
wedding vows that you committed to love your spouse under all circumstances (
does not exclude anything and it is unconditional though)
So, even if you find your spouse defiled, do not
divorce him/her or forsake, but love them with all of your heart, so that the
lord would help to bring the soul back to reconciliation.
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man
separate.
I believe that I have the spirit of God - Amen.
Ref Chapters:
Matthew 5 & 19
Hosea 1.
Jeremiah 3.
I Corinth 7
Matthew 5 & 19
Hosea 1.
Jeremiah 3.
I Corinth 7
