And He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;This verse has troubled me for a long time. I've always felt it should be taken literally as it is directly from Jesus. Yet the modern church doesn't seem to give it much weight.
Some say that it's hyperbole on Jesus' part, that He doesn't really mean it. Yet that seems to be a very convenient answer. Particularly, I've latched onto the fact that it doesn't say that divorcing is the sin; it says remarrying is the sin. It's legal under the Law to divorce, per the previous verses, but here the sin seems to be marrying another, and that's one of my major hold-ups.
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