A Christian Can Be Sinning by Refusing to Divorce a Spouse
But this is, of course, entirely false, and there are times when a Christian would be in sin for refusing to divorce a spouse.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 1999, from Fidelity: What It Means to Be a One-Woman Man, cited to the source.
He requires the men to divorce their wives, and everything about the passage indicates that Ezra was in the right to do so. One of the ways we can see that we have taken in the secularist ethic surrounding us is that we think that Ezra overreacted, not realizing that relationships are more important than righteousness. But this is, of course, entirely false, and there are times when a Christian would be in sin for refusing to divorce a spouse.