an ordering of creation. Jesus’s ruling on divorce confirms God’s judgment against adultery, ensconced in the Decalogue, which upholds God’s ordination of marriage, established in creation. Indeed, Jesus cited the creation story as preface to and premise of his ruling on divorce and adultery: God created “male and female” and said that “the two shall become one flesh” (Matt. 19:4–6). Adulterous remarriage, no less than same-sex union, deviates from God’s design: whereas same-sex union deviates from