By
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD
Director, Public Campus Ministries, Michigan Conference
[Excerpted from Author’s Here We Stand]
Historically, Seventh-day Adventists have believed in the permanence of the marriage institution. Basing their belief on the Genesis model of marriage and other passages of Scripture, Adventists find additional support for their position in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:32) and in His statement that:
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. . . . Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery” (Matthew 19:6, 9; cf. Mark 10:9-12).
The long-standing Adventist position on the permanence of the marital union is confirmed by Ellen G. White who also wrote:
“In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus declared plainly...