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How Baptism and the Eucharist Shaped Early Christian Understandings of Jesus Long before the Gospel writers put pen to papyrus, the earliest Christians participated in the powerful rituals of baptism and the Lord's Supper, which fundamentally shaped their understanding of God, Christ, and the world in which they lived. In this volume, a respected biblical scholar and teacher explores how...

“From the beginning of creation he created them male [arsēn] and female [thēlys].18 On account of this a man leaves his father and mother. And the two become one flesh. So they no longer are two but one flesh. What God therefore has joined together let not humans separate.” And again in the house [oikia] his disciples asked him about this. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his woman and marries another commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her man, she commits another adultery.” (10:1–12)
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