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People who think that Jesus said "hardness of heart is a legitimate ground for divorce" aren't reading Matthew 19 carefully enough. People who say "Moses allowed divorce for hardness of heart, but Jesus tightened the rules" aren't reading Matthew 19 and Mark 10 carefully enough. In Deuteronomy 24 Moses didn't say that hardness of heart… Continue reading Jesus did NOT say “hardness of heart is grounds for divorce”. Deuteronomy 24 has been greatly misunderstood.
The tangled mess of mistaken notions about the doctrine of divorce is truly a gigantic knot. It takes a lot of untying to get it correct. And most professing Christians, in my observation, are still carrying around at least one but probably several false notions about divorce doctrine. The false notions prop each other up… Continue reading The tangled mess of mistaken notions about what the Bible teaches on divorce
