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Stephen E. Jones - Divorce and Remarriage is not Adultery - Stephen Jones article will give you pause for thought. His position is that Christ is criticising the Pharisees for sending away wives without the bill of divorcement that the Law required. He then interprets the exception clause as referring to relationships that did not involve marriage, and therefore did not require divorces. He misses Exodus 21 and other biblical reasons for bringing relationships to an end, and his explanation of the exception clause leaves a lot to be desired. An alternative would be to say that God doesn't allow separation by "putting away", and this includes a general ban on divorce by putting away. The exception is sexual immorality, which can justify separation without a bill of divorcement, and which can justify the bill of divorce itself, if the man thinks it necessary. This focuses on keeping the relationship together, even when sins occur, and reflects God's behaviour towards Israel. The one difficulty with Mr Jones's article is that it builds a basis of historical considerations about Nimrod and the code of Hammurabi that is not in any way necessary to agree with the main point, which is that Jesus viewed adultery as the result of marrying a woman who was merely "put away" from her husband without the bill of divorce required by God's law.

Dr David Instone-Brewer - here comes to many of the same conclusions as christiandivorce.info but gets there by a different route. Dr Instone-Brewer concentrates on historical evidence, particularly that contained in Jewish marriage contracts (ketubahs) and in records of rabbinical debates. Being a Cambridge man his reasoning is not 100% accurate (sorry - a little Oxford-inspired intellectual rivalry crept in there), as he is a little too ready to be negative about polygamy as an issue for our liking, but he does raise a number of important points. The emphasis on historical research begs a question about how much history we need to know to understand the Bible, and christiandivorce.info would argue that many of the same results flow from the text without the need to rely on the shifting sands of historical debate. However, it would be odd if the historical evidence and the history pointed in different directions, and much of this research would show that they do not. Dr Instone-Brewer is one of the few people to notice the implication of the scriptures having more than one way of ending a marriage.

Olan Hicks - here performs a detailed destruction of the Roman Catholic sacremental view of marriage which has come to influence much modern Christian thought. He shows that marriages end on divorce - they do not continue in the eyes of God - and that people really have new marriages, not continuing adultery. He doesn't comprehensively explain the texts others quote to link remarriage with adultery, so you will have to read the rest of christiandivorce.info and/or check Mr Jones's site above in order to do that.

polygamypage.info - for a more in-depth consideration of how the Bible treats plural marriage.

ChurchOfLastResort.com- christiandivorce.info is a ministry of the Church of Last Resort.

DivorceInfo - a comprehensive source of information for the non-religious aspects of divorce, especially in the US.