The problem of BUT

Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”4 “Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female, 5 and He also said: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,and the two will become one flesh? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.” 7 “Why then,” they asked Him, “did Moses command [us] to give divorce papers and to send her away?”8 He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts.

Matt 19:3-8 (HCSB)

Jesus was questioned about marriage and His response was to make clear God's intentions for marriage. God's plan simply put is one man and one woman in a life time commitment to one another. Seems so simple but then why the question. And really why do we continue to question?

This answer is also simple. It's the BUT! Whenever God says something and we say but . . . we have complicated things. God was clear, concise and simple what marriage is all about and how it is to work.

Isn't that true in a lot of areas of our life. God says it and we say BUT. If I could paraphrase Jesus answer it would be stop adding but and just obey. Now that really is simple isn't it?