This is a loaded question and I do not believe I have the answer to it, but it is a question that many pastors are facing today in helping married couples through these horribly sinful times.

Are divorce and remarriage ever permissible?

This is not the question for this article. If you believe that divorce and remarriage are never permissible, then, the question in the article title is moot. Many good people, knowledgeable people, differ on this point, and it really has nothing to do with being theologically left or right. In a set of articles (1984) in Jerry Falwell’s Fundamentalist Journal, Jay Adams and Charles Ryrie took opposite positions on exactly this question. In a Point/Counter Point series, Ryrie argued that it was never biblically permissible while Adams argued that it was in certain circumstances. In an amazing twist of circumstances three years later, Charles Ryrie’s wife divorced him. Believing that divorce and remarriage were never biblically permissible, Ryrie chose to remain single the rest of his life, even though his wife married another man. …

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