Theology of the Body - Talk 1

Pope John Paul II starts his series of talks by emphasizing that, when asked about marriage, Jesus twice used the phrase 'from the beginning' to bring his listeners back to the early words of Genesis concerning marriage - making it clear that 'what God has joined together, let not man put asunder'. That marriage is not to be dissolved. He said that Moses allowed divorce because of the hardness of the hearts of the Hebrews, but that from the beginning that was not meant to be a suitable ending to marriage.