With a Valid Divorce, Remarriage is Not Adultery

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In Mark 10:2-12, Jesus is attributed with decreeing that remarriage by divorced people is adultery unless the reason for the divorce was adultery.

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Just a minor correction, the exception for adultery is not in Mark 10 - it is in Matthew 5:31-2. This makes the Mark passage even less reasonable.I would add that the fact that Protestant denominations typically allow divorce and remarriage indicates that a good many Christians feel that it is unreasonable.

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Wasn't Jesus asserting a high standard, one that people could not live up to, as a rhetorical device?

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Mark 10 doesn't suggest any such thing. The Pharisees ask Jesus on the question of divorce, Jesus answers and that's it.