July 12, 2012 – Catechism 1646 – 1654

I don’t understand how any Christian denomination can accept divorce as something legitimate.  Where is the reasoning.  How do they utterly ignore Christ teaching on this manner.  I guess I worded that wrong.  How can any denomination think remarriage after divorce is legitimate.  That is what Christ explicitly preaches against.  Yet how many brush it off as an natural occurrence.  I wonder how many Bible only believers think divorce and remarriage is ok.  Divorce is such a damaging act and is so vast in our culture that it has become accepted as the norm.  When a husband and wife stay together, it is a great witness to the world of what God means by commitment and love. 

I think I have talked about this before too.  If marriage is the image of God’s love, what do those Christians who believe divorce is ok think about the commitment of God’s love for us.  That is not a meditation to be shrugged off with “God is perfect so it is a different story”.  God meant for the commitment to be permanent because His commitment is permanent.  Belief and acceptance of divorce is saying God’s commitment and love for us is not eternal, easily thrown away, and can be substituted for the next thing we are interested in.  Basically, divorce makes marriage less important.  It makes commitment something optional.  It makes love a focus on feelings.  It makes children objects.  It is awful and evil.  But the Church doesn’t say you have to stay with a person you are married to if the situation is unlivable or dangerous.  You can separate and live alone.  But that marriage is always there.  You are marked with it and stepping into some other relationship is adultery in the eyes of God.  Granted, adultery isn’t seen as “that bad” in the eyes of the world either, but that is another days topic.