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Matthew 5:

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"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
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But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
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that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
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For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?
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And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?
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So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.

I "go there" to show that Jesus is Perfection. If gentiles and Jews are popping out babies left and right, then good for humanity. Why? Because that's what we are suppose to do in obedience to God--populate the planet. Every soul is a cup into which God pours His Grace. The planet is better off with people. Eventual, all will be return to God after all are harvested (both good and bad), and good are kept and the bad are burned away.

Matthew 22: (hypothetical widow marrying 7 brothers)

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Jesus said to them in reply, "You are misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God.
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At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.
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And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,
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'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
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When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

Marriage is no longer a farm-animal like method to mass produce humanity. One man must pour ALL of his love into only one woman. If there's any question as to her needs, she will demand EVERYTHING that can be given from her one and only man. I know this to be true because I know many married men. Their wives demand everything from them (and often demand more...that's why she must look for the rest in the Divinity of God, not man, to find the fulfillment of self in Holy Matrimony). Thus, Marriage always includes the invisible 3rd Party, God.

Marriage seeking more than one human partner (polygamy) is extremely self destructive and takes God to rectify. Look at how disastrous the multiple relationships of Abraham have turned out! Only Jesus can unsettle this mess!