The New Testament is more complicated. It speaks against divorce, primarily in the context of postdivorce sex, but in the same context speaks against marriage altogether. A strict reading of the text would prohibit marriage along with divorce. A slightly more lenient reading would allow marriage (in accord with the proviso in Matthew 19:11 that “not everyone can accept” the teaching of never marrying). More lenient yet is a condemnation of remarriage but an acceptance of divorce. And more lenient than that is a recognition that divorce is like other common sexual sins that are part of the
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