Thanks. But it's sort of odd to read the teachings of Jesus as a commandment to get married. First of all, Jesus isn't married. Second, it would be a religion unavailable to slaves, and many slaves were Christians. Third, the apostles and disciples seem not to be married. Paul seems to actively speak against marriage. Not a very promising sign that it was a religion about being married, perhaps.

So what is Jesus speaking of in Mark 10?

Perhaps it's a messianic prophesy. He assigns these words to God back in Eden: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

This speaks of a future event. Perhaps the "man" here is a spiritual figure, as deities are often called 'men'.

Jesus is the man who leaves "father and mother". As I've often noted, God is presented in the Bible as dual-gendered and with female appearances. So then the messiah leaves Heaven and goes to the earth. The humans are the 'wife', the Bride of Christ.