LinkLater wrote: Of course divorce is Biblical. Just as all the other sins recorded in the Scriptures are "Biblical."
After watching my daughter repeatedly battered and beaten by the evil man she calls her husband, there is no doubt in my mind that divorce is NOT sin in some cases. For the sake of her and her children's mental and physical well-being, she cannot remain married to this person.
Somehow I have a hard time imagining the disciples using an armed guard to fend off persecution. Hopefully the church members who died were ready to meet the Lord, but was the gunman?