The Divorce Dilemma: God’s Last Word on Lasting Commitment
Overview
Do you find yourself at one of life’s most important crossroads with an extremely difficult decision to make? Whether you’re married and considering divorce, single and considering marriage, or divorced and considering remarriage, you’re battling tough questions: Am I doing what’s best? Am I doing what’s right? Maybe you think no one knows exactly how you feel—no one understands the pressures shaping your decision. If that’s the case, you’ll be relieved to know someone does understand. God’s Word offers the most comprehensive guide to answering those questions. In The Divorce Dilemma, John MacArthur looks directly to the Bible to dig out the solutions and advice you need. This book can help strengthen good marriages and heal troubled ones, and offer wisdom for singles and divorced people considering marriage.
Top Highlights
“Notice that Jesus assumed that a divorced woman would normally remarry. That was the whole idea behind divorce. It dissolved the marriage union in order to allow another marriage to take place. Jesus didn’t envision divorce as a permanent legal separation, but as a provision in the civil law that makes way for a remarriage. So when He indicated that divorce is permissible in certain instances, He was also authorizing remarriage in those cases. Conversely, if a divorce takes place that is not permissible, remarriage in that case is tantamount to adultery.” (Page 21)
“Second, some would insist that, biblically, there is to be no divorce at all for anybody, not for any reason, or under any circumstances. Third, others teach that divorce under certain circumstances is permissible but no remarriage is allowed—ever—at any time, for anybody, for any reason. And fourth, others say that, biblically, both divorce and remarriage are possible, but only under certain circumstances.” (Page 7)
“Without exception, divorce is a product of sin, and God hates it. He never commands it, endorses it, or blesses it. Far from encouraging divorce, nearly all the references to divorce in the Old Testament put restrictions on it.” (Pages 15–16)
“reason. Jesus’ response in verse 32 is that God does not permit divorce, except for one very specific reason” (Page 8)
“By God’s own example, divorce is approved in a prolonged, unrepentant, irreconcilable case of adultery.” (Page 45)
- Title: The Divorce Dilemma: God’s Last Word on Lasting Commitment
- Author: John F. MacArthur
- Edition: First Edition
- Series: Family Focal Point
- Publisher: Day One
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Divorce › Biblical teaching; Remarriage › Biblical teaching; Marriage › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781846251078, 1846251079
- Resource ID: LLS:DIVORCEDILEMMA
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:19:25Z
John MacArthur (b. 1939) is a Calvinist theologian, author, editor, and teacher. He is a popular conference speaker and the president of both The Master's College and The Master's Seminary. He has also served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969. Best known for his expository exegesis of the Bible, Logos has collected more than 3,000 of his sermons in the John MacArthur Sermon Archive and offers the complete MacArthur New Testament Commentary.
MacArthur’s pulpit ministry extends around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, and CDs by John MacArthur. He has written hundreds of books and study guides, including the bestselling John MacArthur Essential Bible Study Library and the MacArthur Study Bible. He is also the author of notable titles like Different by Design and Twelve Ordinary Men.