Cemar you didnt specify which religion. Everyone here is asuuming christian. Most every religion and civilization disapproves of divorce. Its pretty easy to google scriptural view of divorce and get a wide range of opinions if you want various christian views. Undoubtedly one will fit with what you want to hear.
I loved her response - she didn't defend it or justify it or attack them over their legalistic righteousness, she would just express hope that God would deal with her with mercy.
live your life with honesty, honor and integrity. Be able to look at yourself in the mirror. do your best. And be grateful that you arent judged by humans, who are much less forgiving, hypocritically superior, and always wanting to cast the first stone.
Quote: physical....emotional abuse...
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Men are not loving their wife as himself if they are emotionally and physically abusing her. They are breaking scriptural mandate, and their marriage vows. Anyone who disapproves of a woman divorcing a man over this,(or vise versa) can argue the semantics of it with their god when it is their turn to be judged.
Its patently absurd IMO to even wonder about this. Even in the New Testament, the bible repeatedly makes allowance for self protection, and self defense. I find this sort of thinking that it is not explicitly laid in in scripture as argumentative and merely designed to cause contention.
Physical abuse is definitely defined differently by culture though.
People who think they are perfect, should try redeeming, instead of judging.
CeMar if muderers and all sorts of other 'evil people' can call upon grace for forgiveness, why would you worry about divorce and abandonment?
I find the devils advocate and looking for validation for certain questionble outcomes and permission seeking, not very decisive or strong minded and slightly victimish.
