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Rethinking divorce
June 13, 1998

God heals

The article about the American divorce culture was right on target ("Rethinking divorce," June 13). I agree with the strong position taken on the covenant of marriage, the limitations on divorce, and the church's role in supporting and rebuilding marriages. The article falls short, however, in affirming God's ability to heal, to rebuild the years that the locusts have eaten. Once a marriage has been broken beyond repair for biblical reasons, God does restore the repentant Christian. A new marriage covenant, made before God with the guidance and blessing of the church, is just as valid a covenant as one made between Christians for the first time. We are all scarred sinful people. The sin of divorce is no more black than any other, nor is it beyond God's ability to cleanse and heal. - Elizabeth Stone, Moundsville, W.Va.

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