Insights and discussions from searching the scriptures while incorporating LDS church history.Read more »
Insights and discussions from searching the scriptures while incorporating LDS church history.Read Less
Casually reading what the scriptures have to say about divorce can be confusing. The Law of Moses spells out the process of divorce and makes it clear that people are allowed to remarry after divorce. Yet in the New Testament Jesus makes comments that appear to condemn divorce and equate remarriage with adultery. In this episode we dig into the Greek and Hebrew, demonstrate the scriptural difference between putting away and divorce, and show how bad translations have significantly changed what Jesus was criticizing, and how the corrected view is consistent with ancient and modern scripture.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Jeremiah 3:1
Deuteronomy 22:13-19, 28-39
Malachi 2:14-16
Matthew 5:31-32
3 Nephi 12:27-32
Matthew 19:3-9
Luke 16:18
Mark 10:11-12
1 Corinthian 7:10-15
D&C 42:22-26, 74-77
D&C 49:15-17
Article on Marriage (1835 D&C 101)
Romans 7:1-3
1 Corinthians 7:8-9
1 Timothy 5:14