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For years my group and I have always played that when you cast spells like Raise Dead or True Resurrection the Divine Focus, usually a diamond of some kind, is destroyed in the process. But I've been reading over the spells recently and I'm struggling actually finding that in the rules. Is the Divine Focus destroyed in these instance or have we been doing it wrong all this time?
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The diamond is the material component, not the divine focus. Some spells have both a focus and a material component - you can tell by the presence of both "M"+"F" (or "M"+"DF" in this case) in the "Components" line.
For a cleric/paladin/inquisitor, their divine focus is their holy symbol. For druids and rangers it's a sprig of holly. Neither of these are consumed by the spell.
The diamond however is consumed.
For years my group and I have always played that when you cast spells like Raise Dead or True Resurrection the Divine Focus, usually a diamond of some kind, is destroyed in the process. But I've been reading over the spells recently and I'm struggling actually finding that in the rules. Is the Divine Focus destroyed in these instance or have we been doing it wrong all this time?
A couple of things have been mixed up here.
The material component is the diamond (or whatever specified after the M, in the component line).
The material component is used up when you cast the spell.
The divine focus is your holy symbol, and can be used as many times as you want.
So you were right all along, but for the wrong reason ;-)