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What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage? How should the church respond to broken marriages? In this concise volume, Boettner investigates the teaching of Scripture and the vision of God set forth in Reformed theology to outline a set of clear guidelines which Christians can use to begin thinking about divorce and remarriage.

And while man cannot legitimately break the marriage bond, it is nevertheless possible for him to break it, by the act of adultery. In that case God acknowledges that the bond has been broken (Matt. 19:9). Adultery is an act which by its very nature is so heinous, so abnormal and extreme, so contrary to the basic concept of marriage as originally instituted, that the innocent husband or wife is no longer under obligation to the guilty partner. It is a wanton violation of marital sanctity. By that
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