You have heard that it was said to the people in the old days, "You shall not commit adultery”. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman or man lustfully has already committed adultery with them in their heart. Yes indeed, if your own right eye or right hand or foot leads you astray and is a hindrance that spoils your faith, you must pluck it out or cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to go into or through life, the kingdom of God, one-eyed, maimed or crippled and lose one of your members than to keep both eyes, and both hands, and both feet and your whole body be thrown onto the rubbish heap, the everlasting fire, where "their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched”.
It also used to be said that "Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce". It was because you knew so little of the meaning of love that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives! But that was not the original principle. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife on any grounds, except her unfaithfulness, and marries some other woman, makes her an adulteress and commits adultery. And whoever marries the woman who has been divorced also commits adultery. And if she herself divorces her husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.
But from the beginning of the creation, God "made them male and female". "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." So that in body they are no longer two separate people but one. That is why man must never separate what God has joined together.
It is not everybody who can live up to this, only those who have a special gift. For some are incapable of marriage from birth, some are made incapable by the action of others, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come when the dead rise in the resurrection, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. As for this matter that the dead are raised, have you never read in the book of Moses what he showed to be true in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord what was once said to you by God himself: "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”? For God is not God of the dead, but of the living. For all people are alive to him. Let the one who can accept what I have said accept it.
Added paragraph break before final paragraph so no confusion that he’s suggesting anyone stay single (in this age), as Paul suggested (was not a command). Jesus’ point is, “Doing marriage right the first time is not for everyone—it requires a special gift. If you think it’s impossible to do it right the first time, you don’t know the power of God, and besides that, once this age is over, this sort of marriage is going to be a dead issue.”
Pretty ponderous.
If we make the universe, who made us? hm. must’ve had help
“We’re qll artificial, and we co-create with one Engineer.” - Anita, Facebook employee