He possesses authority over all the people on earth, the Creator of all things and Ruler of all. Men will be judged according to His teachings, even those who reject Him. The Law of God is the Law of Jesus, who teaches it as revealed to Him by the Father. His specific teaching on divorce and remarriage is addressed to all the people of this world, not only His disciples. He spoke to the great multitudes about it in Matthew 19:3-9. When the Pharisees tested Him on the issue of divorce, Jesus' answer was and is addressed to them and to all, not just a few followers. Jesus emphasized to them and still emphasizes now that a man should leave father and mother and cleave to his wife and the emphasis is universal. He stressed and still stresses that anyone, not only a Christian, who puts away his wife and marries another, commits adultery. It is not limited to covenant people but covers every human being. Jesus explicitly says that God is opposed to divorce by Christians and non-Christians alike. It also shows in Matthew 19:4-8 that this is God's original law on marriage, which applies to all human beings, by saying that, "in the beginning, God made a man and a woman. It must furthermore not be mistaken as a mere Church law or ordinance but the original law handed down 4000 years before the Church was founded. It was the law given to the first man and woman from whom all the peoples of the world descended. It thus applies to all men who descended from Adam and Eve, not just to Christians who are covenanted with God in Jesus. The strictness of the teaching of the Bible on remarriage is founded on the broad application of human reproduction, which is the focus of the marriage law. It intends to limit...

It thus forbids sex outside marriage, according to 1:Cor. 6:16. God commanded all men to reproduce in Genesis 5:1-4 and 9:6 and this became the basis of Jesus' law about divorce and remarriage.
But God values love, mercy, repentance and forgiveness in men more than the dissolution of relationships, legalisms and punishments. Hence, the encouragement is that the offending spouse should repent and re-accepted by the offended spouse as the Bible emphasizes the highest value of love or charity and thus the needlessness of remarriage to other spouses.

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Gospel Way. Divorce and Remarriage. Bible Study Lessons, 2006. http://www.biblestudylessons.com/cgi-bin/gospel_way/divorce_remarriage.php (accessed 19 July 2006)

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John J. Hughes, 2006