Divorce
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Also: dissolution.
divorces and other evils in the world occur because of the absence of ideals from the leaders of nations 111:4.10
just so long as society fails to properly educate children and youths, so long as the social order fails to provide adequate premarital training, and so long as unwise and immature youthful idealism is to be the arbiter of the entrance upon marriage, just so long will divorce remain prevalent and will be the safety valve preventing still worse situations 83:7.8
Easy divorce, when the result of lack of self-control or failure of normal personality adjustment, only leads back to crude societal stages 83:7.7
When modern couples marry with the thought of convenient divorce in the background of their minds if they are not wholly pleased with their married life, they are in reality entering upon a form of trial marriage and one that is far beneath the status of the honest adventures of their less civilized ancestors. 82:3.15
woman’s greater personal freedom and increased economic liberty further complicates the current situation with divorce 83:7.7 83:8.9
the very fact of marriage dissolution itself indicates that Deity is not a conjoining party to such unions. 83:8.4
in the most developed continental nation of a neighboring planet, marriage is only legal after the age of 20 and after passing an instruction in parenting schools 72:3.8-9
premarital education would reduce the number of divorce cases 83:7.7-8
In the Urantia Book
Jesus and ancient laws
- The inauguration of wife purchase and wife dowry, by introducing a property penalty for marriage failure, did much to lessen separation. 83:7.3
- pharisaical interpretations of divorce represented a disgraceful laxity with respect to the best marriage laws of the Jewish code 167:5.2-4
- The woman whom they wanted to stone and whom Jesus saved, named Hildana, left her wicked husband and joined the disciples 162:3.5
- while Jesus refused to make pronouncements dealing with marriage and divorce, he did most bitterly denounce these shameful floutings of the marriage relationship and pointed out their injustice to women and children. He never sanctioned any divorce practice which gave man any advantage over woman 167:5.4
- Jesus repeatedly refused to lay down laws regarding marriage and divorce, but many of Jesus’ early followers had strong opinions on divorce and did not hesitate to attribute them to him. 140:8.14
- Jesus taught, concerning the question of divorcement, that, while Moses looked with favor upon it, it was not so in the days of Adam and in the Garden. 140:6.6
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Question about divorce 167:5.2 — Mt 19:3; Mk 10:2.
- Ask and receive 167:5.2 — Mt 21:22; Mk 11:24; Jn 14:13-14; Jn 16:24.
- Ask and receive; seek and find 167:5.2 — Mt 7:7-8; Lk 11:9-10.
- Jesus writes in sand 162:3.5 — Jn 8:8-11.
- Regarding divorce 140:6.6 — Mt 5:31-32; Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:2-12; Lk 16:18.