“From the Beginning”

Matthew 19: 8: “Jesus said to them, ‘Because of the hardness of your heart, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.” Things have a tendency to get corrupted over time. This is true of physical bodies, governmental bodies—even religious bodies. When Jesus wanted to get back to the pure unadulterated truth, He went back not just to Moses, but all the way to Genesis; and from there showed basis for His belief in Creationism (v. 4), two genders (v. 4, 5), and monogamy (v. 6). He even goes as far as to acknowledge and validate asexuality (v. 12). As the musical prophet Maria von Trapp sang, “Let’s start at the beginning.”