WHO IS ACTUALLY DIVORCED ? Nowhere in the Bible is the non-guilty party of a marriage considered “divorced.” The only party God considered to be divorced is the person to whom the bill of divorcement was given. Under God’s plan, a bill of divorcement could only be given to a party who violated the marriage agreement by committing specific sins, and not for just any reason (as it is with modern “no-fault” divorces). The Bible tells us that God took Israel to be His wife. She committed the sin of spiritual adultery, and in Jeremiah 3:8, God divorced her. Certainly, no one in their right mind would consider God to be divorced. It was Israel who was divorced, not God. (Hosea 2:2 —where God says of Israel, “...she is not My wife…”)