about God’s creational intent. The question, for Jesus, is not what the Torah allows, but what God intended. Jesus argued that before the fall there was no divorce and therefore we were not made for divorce. Instead man and woman were made to enjoy each other forever. This seems to leave his opponents stunned. Why have these passages at all? Jesus replies that Moses instituted these laws because of their hardness of heart. He wanted them to remember that “it was not this way from the beginning.”