What if this common interpretation of the divorce passages in the Bible is not accurate? What if pastors, fueled by a mistaken interpretation of the Bible, have been unnecessarily forcing predominantly women to silently suffer without any recourse besides continuing to live with the men who are destroying their souls? As divorce and abuse become more and more common in culture, and in the church, is it finally time for those of us who hold to the inerrancy of the Bible to rethink our traditional understanding of the well-known divorce exception passage?