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R. L. (Bob) Craig A few years back, I wrote an article titled as the above. Since that time, I have written several other articles regarding the marital relationship. Some may get the idea that I have that subject as a hobby that I ride too much. But the fact of the matter is that I am deeply concerned about the condition of marital relationships of our present time. There is about a 50-50 chance that all marriages will end in divorce. In a majority of these cases, the cause was not the one that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 19:9, fornication (sexual immorality). Most are predicated on personal, and many times, trivial, matters. Matters that could be mediated and solved without divorce if the persons involved loved the Lord enough to apply His rules and really wanted to preserve this marriage. Preachers (gospel preachers) are expending a lot of time and energy, seeking for ways and means of severing these relationships, remarry, and still be right in God's sight. Just what their motive is, I am not able to discern. Sometimes they, themselves, are involved in an unscriptural divorce and remarriage and they are seeking for self-justification so they come up with a new Bible (?) theory. Sometimes they are so emotionally involved in the case of a close friend or loved one that they blindly look for justification. And so they come up with a new idea for divorce and remarriage. And sometimes they are so concerned with additions, numbers, they dream up these ideas so one or two more can be added to the fellowship with impunity. This is not the time to "restudy" the issue of marriage, divorce and remarriage; it is time for us to apply the laws that we already have. It is high time for these preachers, who are so concerned with finding an out for people who are involved in unscriptural marriages, to start spending their time in instructing our young people regarding the timelessness, the perpetuity of the marriage relationship. It's time for parents to start showing their children, by the example of their lives, that the marriage relationship can and should be the most satisfying situation that man and woman can experience. Let the marriage relationship show "due benevolence unto the husband and the husband to the wife."
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