Matthew 19: 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?
Indeed, many marriages in our day have ended up on the rocks as a direct result of either one or both spouses bowing to the prevailing philosophical idols which do take the sacred institution of marriage in a completely opposite direction to God’s original ideal on the matter. But the word is explicitly clear on this matter, so that no one be deceived.
In our day, philosophical idols have come up with concepts such as prenuptial agreements, as if to say that divorce is to be anticipated. And the bowing to idols continues. If one is catering for the dissolution of a marriage up front, why then get married in the first place?
Thus, our first passage explicitly states “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.” It does not depend on rational or benefit; persons are not to bow, period, for doing so sets up a precedent for future bowing in other matters of conscience. It was God who came to Abraham, after the act with Hagar had been done, and God corrected him, and ourselves on the issue.
Matthew 19:5 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh. 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!