Covenant Reformed News – February 2006, Volume X, Issue 22
This article from Covenant Reformed News examines Paul's teachings on divorce in 1 Corinthians 7, arguing against unbiblical divorce and exposing false justifications for marital dissolution. The author emphasizes that Christians must be firmly convinced of the sinfulness of divorce outside biblical grounds (porneia), grounding this conviction in both New Testament exegesis and the moral law of God.
Let Them Not Divorce (2) From our consideration of I Corinthians 7:10-11 last time, it is evident, first, that even Christians may be tempted to divorce. Perhaps this was one of the things that the Corinthians wrote to Paul to ask about (1). Certainly Paul himself spoke to this issue: “Let not the wife depart from her husband … and let not the husband put away his wife” (10-11). There are two main false principles which militate for divorce. Asceticism holds that singleness and sexual...