"Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so" (Matthew 19:8). Divorce is the direct result of the hardness of man's heart, but from the beginning, divorce was never part of God's plan.
Jesus’ mission—to the least, the last, and the lost—is built on such reversals. His redemptive work facilitated them, as shown in the fact that...
Genesis 2:24: Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh....
Pastor Stuart McAlpine presents a sermon on Introduction and helps reflect more on the story of creation found in Genesis 1 (ESV)