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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.

the law as enunciated by Jesus does not in any way suggest any alteration in the nature and effect of divorce. The change initiated by Jesus was rather the abolition of every other reason permitted in the Mosaic provisions and the distinct specification that adultery was now the only ground upon which a man could legitimately put away his wife. What is abrogated, then, is not divorce with its attendant dissolution of the marriage bond but rather all ground for divorce except adultery. “If divorce
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