Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
📍 Malachi was written about 500 years before the time of Jesus, and for the first 2000 years of Bible translation, Malachi 2:15-16 was not interpreted as "God hates divorce." It was understood as an anti-treachery verse about a man who hates and mistreats his wife.
That's how Jerome, John Wycliffe and reformers, Martin Luther and John Calvin, read it.
To learn more about how Luther and Calvin viewed Mal. 2:16, go to: lifesavingdivorce.com/malachi
To understand the verse in the context of the Book of Malachi, go here: lifesavingdivorce.com/malachiabusivehusbands
#lifesavingdivorce #biblicaldivorce
ABOUT
Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader and author. She began leading support groups for single mothers in conservative churches in the Los Angeles area in 1998 and now focuses primarily on reaching people online.
For more than 25 years, Gretchen has helped women and men of faith find strength, courage, and healing through the challenges of life-saving divorce. She listens with empathy to those recovering from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addiction, and emotional abuse.
A survivor of a toxic marriage herself, Gretchen understands the journey of rebuilding after loss. Following her own life-saving divorce and years as a single mother, she is now happily remarried.
She is a graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Bible and Christian Education.
For more information:
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lifesavingdivorce.bsky.social
Facebook facebook.com/lifesavingdivorce
Instagram instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
You Tube youtube.com/@lifesavingdivorce
Twitter twitter.com/GGBaskerville
What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for serious reasons: a pattern of sexual immorality, physical violence, chronic emotional abuse, felony behavior, family-crushing addictions, or abandonment/neglect.
My Book: "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
Paperback or eBook: amzn.to/3J3vXa7
or AUDIOBOOK: amzn.to/4f52Mh4
Or get it from Gumroad (for those who share an Amazon account with their abuser): Download the EPUB and PDF at gumroad.com/lsp
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
📍 Malachi was written about 500 years before the time of Jesus, and for the first 2000 years of Bible translation, Malachi 2:15-16 was not interpreted as "God hates divorce." It was understood as an anti-treachery verse about a man who hates and mistreats his wife.
That's how Jerome, John Wycliffe and reformers, Martin Luther and John Calvin, read it.
To learn more about how Luther and Calvin viewed Mal. 2:16, go to: lifesavingdivorce.com/malachi
To understand the verse in the context of the Book of Malachi, go here: lifesavingdivorce.com/malachiabusivehusbands
#lifesavingdivorce #biblicaldivorce
ABOUT
Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader and author. She began leading support groups for single mothers in conservative churches in the Los Angeles area in 1998 and now focuses primarily on reaching people online.
For more than 25 years, Gretchen has helped women and men of faith find strength, courage, and healing through the challenges of life-saving divorce. She listens with empathy to those recovering from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addiction, and emotional abuse.
A survivor of a toxic marriage herself, Gretchen understands the journey of rebuilding after loss. Following her own life-saving divorce and years as a single mother, she is now happily remarried.
She is a graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Bible and Christian Education.
For more information:
Website and Blog: LifeSavingDivorce.com
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lifesavingdivorce.bsky.social
Facebook facebook.com/lifesavingdivorce
Instagram instagram.com/gretchenbaskerville
You Tube youtube.com/@lifesavingdivorce
Twitter twitter.com/GGBaskerville
What's a Life-Saving Divorce? A Life-Saving Divorce is a divorce for serious reasons: a pattern of sexual immorality, physical violence, chronic emotional abuse, felony behavior, family-crushing addictions, or abandonment/neglect.
My Book: "The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships"
Paperback or eBook: amzn.to/3J3vXa7
or AUDIOBOOK: amzn.to/4f52Mh4
Or get it from Gumroad (for those who share an Amazon account with their abuser): Download the EPUB and PDF at gumroad.com/lsp
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
