Gospel Of Mark: Why Doesn't Kim Davis Deny Marriage Licenses To The Previously Divorced?

Kim Davis

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Davis_(county_clerk)

Kim Davis: If Christians Want Gov't Jobs, They Must Discharge The Government's Job Description
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-davis-if-christians-want-govt-jobs.html

Amish Insight Into Kim Davis' Uncivil Disobedience
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/amish-insight-into-kim-davis-uncivil.html

"Kim Davis Needs To Read The Bible Again," The New Yorker
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-davis-needs-to-read-bible-again.html

Kim Davis Keeps $8o K Job As Head Of Office That Issues Same Sex Marriage Licenses

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-davis-keeps-8o-k-job-as-head-of.html

Kim Davis And The Blind Side Of Theocracy
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-blind-side-of-theocracy.html

In Kim Davis Case, Ted Cruz Is Indifferent To The Rule Of Law
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/ted-cruz-indifferent-to-rule-of-law-in.html

Westboro Baptist Church Attacks Kim Davis
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/westboro-baptist-church-comes-out.html

Justice Scalia Explains Why Kim Davis Should Issue Gay Marriage Licenses
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/justice-scalia-explains-why-kim-davis.html

Gay Rights Group Erects Billboard In Kim Davis' Home Town
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/gay-rights-group-erects-billboard-in.html

Quaker Official Refuses To Issue Gun License
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/quaker-official-refuses-to-issue-gun.html


Hey, Kim Davis! This Is What A Courageous Woman Looks Like
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/hey-kim-davis-this-is-what-courageous.html

Kim Davis Jail Cartoon
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-davis-jail-cartoon.html

Kim Davis: Anything Wrong With This Picture?
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-davis-anything-wrong-with-this.html

Mark 10

International Standard Version 

Teaching about Divorce

10 Then Jesus[a] left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side[b] of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom. 2 Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

3 “What did Moses command you?” he responded.

4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.”[c]

5 But Jesus told them, “It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God[d] made them male and female.’[e] 7 That’s why ‘a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[f] So they’re no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.”

10 Back in the house, the disciples asked him about this again. 11 So he told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if a woman[g] divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

Alan: Mark was the earliest of the four canonical evangelists.

He probably wrote between 66 and 70 A.D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark

Twenty years after Mark recorded Jesus' absolute proscription of divorce (above), the evangelist Matthew wrote his account (below) which mirrors Mark EXCEPT for The Exception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew

I doubt any accomplished exegete would argue that Mark did not mean exactly what he said and that Matthew added The Exception because, over time, Mark's moral burden proved impossibly difficult, making it necessary to accommodate Reality no matter what Jesus was recorded to have said in the earliest gospel.

Matthew 19

International Standard Version 

Teaching about Divorce

19 When Jesus had finished saying these things,[a] he left Galilee and went to the territory of Judea on the other side[b] of the Jordan. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man[c] to divorce his wife for any reason?”

4 He answered them, “Haven’t you read that the one who made[d] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female’[e] 5 and said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?[f] 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.”

7 They asked him, “Why, then, did Moses order us ‘to give a certificate of divorce and divorce her’?”[g]

8 He told them, “It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not this way. 9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”[h]

Alan: Any Christian with enough courage to probe the irreconcilable complexities (contradictions?) that abound in sacred scripture may wish to read the following links.

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

"Why The Bible Belt Is Delusional"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-bible-belt-is-delusional.html

"God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/god-enjoys-10-plagues-way-too-much.html

Biblical Literalism: Not Only Impossible But Destructive Of Meaning And Souls

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/biblical-literalism-not-only-impossible.html

UNC-CH Professor Bart D. Ehrman:

Biblical Exegete And Former Christian Evangelical

The Bible and Textual Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

Seldom Sermonized Bible Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/seldom-sermonized-bible-verses.html

Time To Expunge Catholicism Of Traditions & Texts That Represent God As A Terrorist
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/time-to-expunge-catholicism-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/trial-by-ordeal-bloodthirsty-roots-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/trial-by-ordeal-alive-and-well-in-17th.html

ISIS And The Inquisition: The Shadow Side Of Religion. Why Does Belief Do This?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/isis-and-inquisition-shadow-side-of.html

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html