I am going to deal with one of the most delicate, difficult, and debated topics in all the Bible divorce.

There was a time in America when divorce was "safe, legal, and rare." Today, it's anything but rare. The exception has become the rule. It was recently said: "Couples are married today for better or for worse, but not for long."

Almost three decades ago in 1970, Alvin Toffler, in his best-selling, Future Shock, made this prediction:

Instead of wedding "until death do us part," couples will enter matrimony knowing from the start that the relationship is short-lived. And when the opportunity presents itself, they will marry again...and again...and again.1

Toffler evidently realized that over the last one hundred years there has been a seismic shift in the cultural acceptance of, and …