QUESTION: My mom became a Christian a while back and my dad doesn't like it. He's always giving her a hard time about her new faith. Somebody told her to go ahead and divorce him. Does the Bible say anything about this?

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ANSWER: The Bible deals with this exact situation. Let me allow the Bible to speak for itself. Check this out.

1 Corinthians 7:12-15 -- Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a Christian man has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. And if a Christian woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him. For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not have a godly influence, but now they are set apart for him. (But if the husband or wife who isn't a Christian insists on leaving, let them go. In such cases the Christian husband or wife is not required to stay with them, for God wants his children to live in peace.)