text: Part 3
  Second, I would refer them to pray over those passages where Jesus grants full authority to his Church, suggesting that therefore, we the Church today have the same authority that Paul exercised in his day.
  
  Third, I would invite them to pray over the two passages in the Gospels where Jesus takes a stance against divorce. I would refer them to commentaries that point out that in one of these passages, Jesus allowed an exception in the case of adultery, whereas in the other there is no such exception in the text read literally. 
  
  I would then invite them to note that on the basis of these two passages as different strands of the Christian Tradition have developed different canonical positions. Protestants in general accept divorce, building on the adultery exception in one Gospel and Paul's override of Jesus dictate. Orthodoxy completely rejects divorce, but when it happens, when marriages irretrievably break down, out of God's mercy it allow a second and even a third marriage.