Covenant

[OBW]

Originally Posted by Terry

From Matthew 19 regarding marriage:

Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” They *said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. Matthew 19:3-8

Most Christians take seriously the covenant of marriage. Based on LC attitudes and behavior, there is another pseudo-covenant superseding the marriage covenant, that is the practice, behavior, and attitude toward quarantines is much more a covenant in and among the local churches than marriage is.

Further to this, it is apparent that they often encourage an LCM-participant spouse to divorce a non-participant spouse, especially if the split in allegiance is causing any friction. In this way, there is now effectively a covenant to follow the LCM way that trumps the marriage covenant.