Quote of the Day

On Divorce: …Clearly Jesus sees a tension between Deuteronomy 24 and Genesis 1-2.  The but at the beginning of verse 6 ('But from the beginning of Creation…') means: God's will about divorce in Genesis 1-2 is not the same as his will expressed in Deuteronomy 24.  So the question is:  Which way will Jesus go?  Will he say, 'Well, there is still hardness of heart today, even in my disciples, and so Deuteronomy expresses God's will for my followers today'?  Or will he say, "I am the Messiah, the Christ.  The Son of Man has come into the world to gather a people who by faith in him and union with him display the true meaning of marriage in the way they keep their marriage covenant'?  Will the emphasis fall on the fact that in the church there is still hardness of heart, or will the emphasis fall on the fact that the old has passed away and the new has come (2 Cor. 5:17)?

John Piper