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In the original creation, God made male and female to be together.
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Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage
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he becomes one flesh with a woman - no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity.
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Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart."
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When they were back home, the disciples brought it up again.
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Jesus gave it to them straight: "A man who divorces his wife so he can marry someone else commits adultery against her.
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And a woman who divorces her husband so she can marry someone else commits adultery."
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The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them.
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The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: "Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom.
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Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in."
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Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them.