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Celestial Law of divorce?
There is and always only has been, only one law of Christ on divorce, he taught there is no such thing as divorce, for anyone, no matter if they are righteous or wicked. Christ taught that all remarriage is adultery, just as most major christian religions understand and acknowledge (including the LDS) but do not follow because they don't want to stand for Christ and thus lose all their members, for most everyone believes in divorce and remarriage, for Christ's law is too hard.
Even Joseph Smith understood that divorce was impossible and wouldn't allow it, it was Brigham Young who led the Saints astray and the Church into apostasy and started allowing divorce and remarriage along with his whoredoms of polygamy and other abominations. Thus why the LDS Church today still allows divorce and remarriage despite what Christ and Joseph Smith taught, for it really doesn't follow Christ's laws and never did since Brigham took over.
When Christ gave the 'fornication clause' on divorce it mean't for those who were engaged who had a fiancee who was unfaithful, for back then if such happened then they had to give a bill of divorcement to their unfaithful fiancee (like Joseph was going to give Mary). Fornication is about unmarried people, not involving married persons. Christ understood the difference between the words 'fornication' and 'adultery' and used both, and would have used adultery if he had been talking about unfaithful married people. Clearly, he was referring to those who had unfaithful fiancees, for they hadn't yet consummated the marriage so they could still divorce/separate. After a couple consummates the marriage it is unbreakable, unless one was forced into the marriage and didn't really give their consent, which happens alot in some countries or religions. But God is a respecter of common consent and equality in all things and doesn't recognize forced marriages against a person's will or desire.
But if a couple both mutually agree to marry there is no such thing as divorce. It was Satan and man who came up with divorce and remarriage, as if it's legitimate. God never allows divorce ever in the history of the world. Moses led a very wicked people, it was not God's law to allow them to divorce, they just refused to follow God's/Christ's law on divorce and so Moses had no choice and couldn't make laws against divorce for the people wouldn't have followed him or them. If Moses wanted to remain their leader he had to allow them to commit adultery in divorce and remarriage, as most all countries and churches do today, even the LDS Church, for that's what the people want. No one seems to want to follow Christ.
And if a person really saw and spoke with the true Christ and not a false one, they would know and preach and practice this. This is one way to know who has really spoke with the true Christ and who has been deceived by a false Christ and false angels.
Also, if one believes Christ taught that divorce and remarriage is ok if their spouse committed adultery, as most people believe today, then that doesn't make sense, for there are a lot worse things a spouse could do to their spouse then just commit adultery. And if any wicked act by a spouse were to constitute justification for divorce and remarriage then divorce would be common place and most all couples would divorce (as they soon will with our now free divorce laws), for where are you going to find a marriage with 2 righteous people? And who will stay married for long to their hurtful, wicked, weak, boring, old, unattractive, poor or sick spouse when society and their church will allow them to dump their spouse and seek a new fresh fun easier romance and partner?
As we will soon see in society and the Church, as divorce eventually happens to most all couples, once you allow divorce for 'any' reason, it soon becomes very clear that there is 'no' reason to marry, for the marriage doesn't really mean anything and is no promise at all, or a useless promise of conditional love, one that gets broken over and over. Young people are watching and learning that marriage does not hold the protection from abandonment that it once did. And church and civil leaders instead of protecting spouses from the abuse and adultery of the other spouse, they support them in doing more of it.
If Christ had thought it was ok for couples to divorce for wickedness and remarry, then he wouldn't have even brought it up or taught what he taught, for the current laws of the Jews would have been about the same as his laws, for there was probably no marriage in his or our day that didn't deal with some degree of abuse, adultery or unrighteousness.
But Christ didn't allow divorce, for any reason once fully married, thus he really was serious about people having his Christ-like love 1st and foremost for their spouse, even and especially if their spouse is their enemy. For only then can people prove they are truly his disciples.
For as Christ taught, anyone can love those who love them, that's no test, anyone can divorce and go on to find a nice new spouse who will love them and treat them right, that's the natural man inclination, but only those who are truly Christlike can love and stay completely faithful to their 1st and only spouse, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, even spiritual sickness and wickedness.
The light/love of Christ we posses is proven in the darkness, the bad times, not in the light or the good times or with a good spouse.
No one seems to believe in Christ's law of divorce today, for it is too hard and requires too much sacrifice and unselfish unconditional love. But only those who do preach and practice this law can be considered true disciples of Christ.
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