According to the Bible God hates divorce, as does anyone. However, there are circumstances not mentioned in the Bible, which cause people to divorce. Lying, cheating, physical and mental abuse, child abuse, drunkenness and the inability to love each other as a loving marital relationship is intended to be. Thank God for the mothers and fathers who remove their children from an abusive household and give them an opportunity to survive. God hates abuse of wives as much as He hates divorce. (Colossians 3:19, 1 Peter 3:7, Ephesians 5:25-33). Surely, though wrong to assume – God meant children here too. The problem is when church leaders intervene by using guilt to stop the break up of such a relationship. Using God and the Bible is sometimes a way of remaining in denial. Loving God means progress toward God and not being stuck in a loveless abusive relationship with anyone. Marital unfaithfulness is usually translated to adultery, which is cause for divorce. Unfaithfulness doesn't necessarily mean sexual unfaithfulness. It can mean unfaithful in the promise to love and care for. It can mean abandonment or unfaithful to the truth within the marriage. It can mean a lot of things and only the couple themselves and God know the reason to make the decision not to stay together. Some understand 1 Corinthians 7:15 as an “exception,” allowing remarriage if an unbelieving spouse divorces a believer. There are exceptions to "every" rule and though the Bible is a good guideline every person must try to understand how God meant it for their own experience and how they can go on to learn from it. Many also look too quickly to remarriage after a divorce when God might desire them to remain single. Remarriage after a divorce may be an option in some circumstances, but that does not mean it is the only option. It would appear wise to remain single for a time after going through the traumatic experience of divorce. God says it’s better to marry than to burn with passion (1 Corinthians 7:9). Perhaps this applies to remarriage after a divorce or perhaps not. When the love in a marriage is gone it does not mean God loves the couple any less than if they were still married. That's the important thing to remember. There is no part in the Bible that states marriage is permanent. Temporal frustrations and disadvantages are much to be preferred over the disobedience of remarriage, and will yield deep and lasting joy both in this life and the life to come (Matthew 5:29-30). This is only possible when a couple loves each other not for a couple who have begun to separate in every imaginable way. In a perfect world all would be perfect. The one constant is the truth of God's love. Unlike human love it is forever. It is both forgiving and kind. It is eternal.

It's best not to because God gave you your husband/wife and it shows ingratitude to Him to do so. As Glen said love can most definately be rekindled if the couple is just willing to get their hearts right, and work on it. It takes two to make a marriage, and two to break one. It is pride 90% of the time when a marriage ends, from one or both persons. "He doesn't listen to me anymore" or in other words how dare he, he owes me. or how about this: " she is a cold fish all of the time, all she does is bi---, and I deserve better than that" or in other words, I want to trade that 40 in for two 20's. I am tired of drivin a Ford, and I want a Ferrari. Both of these examples are manifestations of pride rearing it's ugly head, and I'd submit to you so are most other reasons people want to divorce. Jesus said that the only reason God ever permitted a writ of divorce was the pride of the Jews or their hard hearts. Matthew 19:8-9 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. Note the except in the above verses. For fornication. That is physically cheating on your spouse, and in that instance they have already divorced you. I believe that in God's eyes, the cheater is the one commiting the sin. It is better to work through it, and forgive the cheater, but in God's eyes, you are not the guilty one and it is allowed to divorce them. Abusive relationships are also pride and heart problems. If there is a serious danger to one or the other I think it is best to at least separate, until the one gets anger and pride out of their heart. I don't know of a verse that says beatings are a good reason for divorce. I think that in this case, counseling is the best option, and the marriage can be saved with a lot of work. Forgiveness is always the best option. Mark 11:26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. Matthew 18:21-22 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Here is what God says about the matter: But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Mark 10:6) "Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." (Mark 10:11) You can visit me at http://free4life-truth.blogspot.com

Deuteronomy 24:1-4; Matthew 19:4-9

The Bible, and with respect to all religions, attempt to control human behavior. There is no evidence that points to the existence of a Supreme Being. Not that religions don't sway people to this day, but in the earlier stages of it, it was meant as a way for the subjects to not question their ruler. If they did question him/her than it was cause for punishment. (A bit ironic since most religions have a "hell" type of punishment meant for after you die.) Quite simply, the Bible doesn't want you to divorce because the Bible still thinks people are infallible and they also think that this "God" character is just as infallible. But Hitler has already proven that fascism doesn't work and neither does trying to control peoples desires. Marriage is nothing more than a piece of paper meant to make one or both parties more secure in their relationship, as well as earlier ideals of securing procreation. Divorce went against the church originally since they did not the foresight to realize the problems with a contract impossible to keep, and this is why the stigma of divorce being bad or against the Bible still sticks.

It creates chaos. Divorce was created for hard hearted man. God created marriage for a lifetime and He gives the tools to live that life for Him and in Him. Divorce creates the thoughts that forever things are only temporary, that we don't have to be nice to one another, and that children have no invested feelings in the marriage. It continues the spread of disease and insecurity in society and crumbles the respect for authority.