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Originally Posted by james34
Nice, but you purposely omit that Jesus addressed putting away. He said from the beginning it was not so. So mi guess those were just empty words?
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I'm thinking you did not understand my point.
Prior to Moses, people got married. And people put away their wives. And people got married unlawfully (forbidden unions).
Moses stated that if a man was to put away his wife, he had to give her a writ of divorce, legal paperwork stating she was no longer married. He allowed them to put away their wives because of the hardness of their hearts. But in the beginning it was not "in this manner". In the beginning God intended a man to have his wife and to keep her permanently. But people have hard hearts. So a mechanism was instituted to protect the woman. That mechanism was divorce (not merely putting away, but putting away with a bill of divorce).
The Pharisees asked about a man putting away his wife "for any reason" whatsoever. Which was not what Moses instituted by the way, that was a later rabbinic invention.
It is clear Jesus is stating the original pattern of Adam and Eve is the original intention for marriage. Which tells a man he should NOT put away his wife for just any old reason he can dream up.
It is also clear that Jesus affirmed that putting away IS NOT SUFFICIENT except in the case of fornication. Which was true under Moses' law as well. A man who married a woman that was simply put away was committing adultery with her.
This is what I pointed out way back in the beginning - there is a difference between "put away" and "divorce", and the terms Jesus used were the Greek legal terms that distinguished between the two acts. And going by that it means Jesus affirmed that putting away results in adultery because there is no bill of divorce (except in cases of fornication which are either "prohibited unions" like incest etc OR if fraud is involved and the woman claiming to be a virgin turns out not to be, in which cases putting away DID NOT REQUIRE A BILL OF DIVORCE). I have yet to see anyone on this thread really tackle that part of the subject.