I’ve pretty much finished rewriting the text of this web site. Its<BR> <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/music2/divorce/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.angelfire.com/music2/divorce/</A> <P><BR>I’m in the process of rewriting the Question and Answer section. There are about 40<BR>questions and answers you may find helpful<P> <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/music3/questions/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.angelfire.com/music3/questions/</A> <P>Steve

Most excellent, Steve. You are truly doing His work there, and I respect and admire your thorough, prayerful, and righteous treatment and opinion. My wife divorced me yesterday, and I let her. I still honor my covenant with her and God, and I pray for a restoration some day. Your material is fantastic...I need to get a new ink cartridge, and print it out. Thanks, and God bless.

Nice site and topic. I have some concerns that you rely too much on the old and new covenent theories and use a lot of editorials and not enough scripture.<P>One doesn't need to even read the new testament to have the understanding of this issue. After all Paul and Jesus didn't read it. It'didnt exist.<P>Look at Hosea for the example God wishes one to follow, of if a whole book is too much to take in. Jerremiah 3:1 should sum it up.<P>God himself talks about his own Law and basically says, yeah yeah I said that but, this is what I choose to do in spite of the Law, above and beyond.<P>BTW: Run a spell check on that site, I wish this forum had one. LOL

Yes, what you say is true, but the content and appliction of the Old and New Covenants is what all organized religion is based on. (Man's interpretation, which is fundamentally flawed, however.) My exwife has rewritten the interpretation of a lot of it to suit her needs, and that is what needs to be 'fixed' first.<BR> The use of such attempts to return to a 'bicameral mindset' where you are told what is good, and what is evil doesn't work in the presence of rational, conscious thinking, because we are free to change our values at will, which is pretty much what we all live with here, isn't it? I see it this way:<BR> My wife did not like where/how her life was going.<BR> She tried to change me to make it better. That didn't work.<BR> She tried to blame SAD, PMS, depression, everything else, except her personally.<BR> She was able to come to 'terms' with it being me, 'not meant to be', and a lot of other 'foggy' concepts that most people think about for two seconds, and then say, 'I guess that's the way it is.'<BR> So, she rearranged God's law (we weren't married in the Church), and is okay with taking Prozac, and drinking alot. She smokes again, which is odd, too. She hangs out with, well, a wingnut. Her faith life is suffering, etc. She broke man's law by lying about the separation date (we NEVER were separated), and continues to break the custody agreement without fail every weekend. She has cut me off from my friends (I have complicity in that I will not visit them if she is there.).<BR> My reaction? Well, I love the Book of Hosea. He was the very definition of the good husband. She is not ready to come back yet. Remember that Gomer had to breakdown fairly completely. After all, Hosea had to buy her back, and buy her clothes, and still they lived separately for a while. This was long after the OM in the Bible. The Old Testament is a great collection of early Church Doctrine and history (not so much for Christians, these days, I'm afraid), and the New Testament seems to betray a modification of man's controls over man. Look at all the examples of attempts to return the Jewish to the fold. Jesus always attempts to relate the Old Covenant as a subset of the New that is simply being misinterpreted. The use of parables betrays the fact that this is largely an attempt to 're-engineer' our value system to a more easily followed one. I am not attempting to say that the Word of God is not contained in there; It is, but most of the Bible, particularly the works of Paul, is the Word of God as interpreted by man, and Paul makes no bones about it being 'the way I think you should live.' We have replaced 'Woe be to Israel' with wicked Thessalonians, and the like. That would include Moses' contribution, too. So, we each rewrite the Bible in our own way, in our attempt to rewrite our lives to live up to it. Hmmmmm.<BR>Finally, we wouldn't need a spell checker if the !@#$ keys wouldn't keep moving around! (;-{)>

Very interesting site. One thing though I noticed was that the verses he quotes do not always say what he is saying they do and one instance where the author actually contraticts himself.<P>Just be careful to read for yourselves and make your own judgements, even though this author is definately giving much food for thought, and there is truth in there as well. <P>Juanita<P><p>[This message has been edited by Juanita (edited May 27, 2001).]

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