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    Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce
    Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce
    Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce
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    Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce

    By Dr. Stanford E. Murrell

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    Dr. Murrell discusses what the Bible has to say about divorce.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 27, 2013
    ISBN9781300979920
    Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce

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      Hope for Broken Hearts - Dr. Stanford E. Murrell

      Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce

      Hope for Broken Hearts: A New Consideration of Divorce

      Dr. Stanford E. Murrell

      …let him write her a bill of divorcement…

      A World without Paradise

      When Adam transgressed the known will of God in the Garden of Eden, (Genesis 3:1-7) he sentenced all of his posterity to a life of pain and suffering. As the Federal Representative of the Human Race, the sin of Adam became the sin of all in principle. Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Romans 5:12). The immediate punishment for Adam and his wife Eve, was an expulsion from the Garden of Eden, with the prohibition not to eat of the Tree of Life. Having rebelled and eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, God realized they would rebel again and eat of the Tree of Life and live forever in a fallen state. Therefore, the Lord placed a cherub with a flaming sword on the road leading into the Garden. Adam and Eve and their descendent would have to live in a world without paradise.

      Part of the experience of living in a world without paradise, as ordained by God, was conflict. In the act of administering divine justice upon all who took part in the great rebellion against the will of God, the Lord made certain there would be hostility between good and evil. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heal (Genesis 3:15). Rather than become partners with Satan in sin, the Sovereign God placed a natural animosity between the devil and fallen men.

      One reason for this line of spiritual division was, the Lord was determined to redeem souls for Himself and be glorified through the manifestation of His infinite grace and mercy. Where sin abounded, grace would much more abound (Romans 5:20). Nevertheless, Satan would have some success in retaining souls for himself, as he ruled the world of darkness with delight (2 Corinthians 4:4). Satan would challenge God for every person that came into the world. He would use every weapon in his spiritual arsenal to win the battle for the heart of humanity including divorce (2 Corinthians 2:11; Ephesians 6:11). Behind every divorce is an expression of satanic hostility against the Lord and against His ideal design, which was that marriage be permanent.

      It was in the Garden of Eden where the first wedding took place. It was a very lovely and tender moment when God presented Eve to Adam, who had just awakened from a deep sleep. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man (Genesis 2:21, 22). When Adam saw Eve, there was love at first sight. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man (Genesis

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