Christian churches give different answers. The Catholic Church teaches that a new marriage after divorce is adultery while the first spouse lives, unless a church court finds that the first marriage was never valid. The Orthodox Church permits a second marriage with a penitential rite, and many Protestant churches allow remarriage, at least after adultery or desertion. Every answer starts where Jesus started, with marriage as it was “from the beginning” (Matthew 19:8): male and female made one flesh, joined…

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