Jesús enseñó una sola excepción para el divorcio y las segundas nupcias.
Matthew 5:31-32
(31) It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
(32) But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 19:3-9
(3) The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
(4) And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
(5) And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
(6) Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
(7) They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
(8) 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.
(9) 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.
Muchos de los judíos creían que uno podía repudiar a su esposa por cualquier causa y utilizaban el mandamiento de la Ley de Moisés para apoyar su práctica.
Deuteronomy 24:1-2
(1) When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
(2) And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
La inmundicia se define como mancha, falta, vergüenza o deshonra.
Algunos de los judíos se divorciaban de sus esposas si no podían tener hijos, si tenían una disposición cruzada, si ella era una mala ama de casa, y muchas otras razones. Cualquiera que sea la excusa dada para el divorcio por los judíos, esta ley de divorcio fue escrita no por adulterio o infidelidad sexual.
Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Los que cometían adulterio eran condenados a muerte. Los judíos iban a apedrear a las mujeres sorprendidas en el acto de adulterio.
John 8:3-5
(3) And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
(4) They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
(5) Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
En esta dispensación evangélica bajo la Ley de Cristo, ¿podemos separar a nuestras esposas por cualquier causa?
No, sólo hay una razón bíblica.
Matthew 19:9 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.
Fornicación es un término general para "relaciones sexuales ilícitas".
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance: prostitución, incluyendo el adulterio y el incesto.
Vines Expository Dictionary: relaciones sexuales ilícitas, significa e incluye el adulterio.
Ejemplo de fornicación:
1 Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
Un hombre que tiene la mujer de su padre - incesto. También podría llamarse adúltera.
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Término general para todas las relaciones sexuales ilícitas antes y después del matrimonio. La fornicación incluye todas las relaciones sexuales ilícitas con otro: fornicación antes del matrimonio, adulterio después del matrimonio, incesto, relaciones homosexuales, etc.
La excepción de Jesús no es un mandamiento de hacer, sino un permiso si es absolutamente necesario.
El perdón, la reconciliación deberían estar en primer lugar.
La regla es un hombre y una mujer de por vida.
Mark 10:10-12
(10) And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
(11) And he saith unto them, 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.
Si se separa a un esposo o esposa sexualmente inocente y se casa con otro, se comete adulterio. Las enseñanzas de Jesús sobre el divorcio y las segundas nupcias protegen a la parte inocente.
Jesús volvió a hablar a los fariseos (los judíos que creían que podían repudiar a una esposa por cualquier causa) de la regla.
Luke 16:14-18
(14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
(15) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
(16) The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
(17) And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
(18) Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
él ya había hablado la excepción.
Otras escrituras que algunos arrancan para promover la falsa doctrina de la "no excepción".
Romans 7:1-4
(1) Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
(2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
(3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
(4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
La carga de Pablo aquí no es la enseñanza del divorcio y las segundas nupcias, sino la verdad de que ya no estamos sujetos a las ceremonias y ordenanzas de la Ley de Moisés porque ahora estamos casados con Cristo (versículo 4). Pablo utilizó la regla del matrimonio literal que se encuentra en la Ley de Moisés para comparar (versículos 2-3). La Ley Mosaica también proscribía excepciones en Deuteronomio 24:1-2. Pablo no pudo haber usado la excepción sino la regla para obtener la comparación.
De nuevo vemos la regla en 1 Corintios 7:39:
1 Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Sin embargo, puede haber situaciones en las que una esposa debe apartarse de su marido: como en el caso de peligro físico para ella, para sus hijos, etc. (versículo 11). En situaciones similares debe permanecer soltera o reconciliarse con su marido. Sólo hay una excepción y una razón para el divorcio: la fornicación. La mayoría de los hombres o mujeres que dejan a sus cónyuges hoy en día terminan teniendo relaciones sexuales ilícitas con otro. El cónyuge inocente no está bajo esclavitud en tales casos (versículo 15).
1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
La falsa doctrina de "ninguna excepción" es una doctrina de esclavitud.
Pone a la persona inocente bajo tentaciones innecesarias, da lugar a que el diablo trabaje, y trae a la gente bajo esclavitud toda su vida pensando que están haciendo el servicio de Dios.
Muchas personas que sostienen la doctrina fanática de "ninguna excepción" también sostienen otras ideas fanáticas como no tener instrumentos musicales en la iglesia, no tener corbatas, no tomar café, etc. Servir a Dios es un "servicio razonable".
Romans 12:1-2
(1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
(2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
La Palabra de Dios, el evangelio de Jesucristo, enfatiza una y otra vez la regla de un hombre y una mujer para toda la vida. Cristo no dio más que una excepción para el divorcio y las segundas nupcias.