ROFL at PSac!
Men are some funny creatures!
Sylvia
If Jehovah Disapproved Of Polygamy & Concubines Why Did He Bless Those Involved?
by minimus 86 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Dagney
(ok, kind of freaky...just used this argument this morning with a friend before reading this.)
My reasoning even as a very young wit girl, was the Bible, ie. god, created laws against all sorts of sexual "situations", and I'm sure there was plenty of stonings of the disenfranchised for engaging of said "situations." (Take the adulteress Jesus lovingly saved. Where was the "john?" Was he not equally as quilty?)
However, more documented are the accounts of rape, incest, multiple wives, concubines, adultery, fornication, prostitution, temple prostitues etc...with little consequences. How can anyone with a straight face try to enforce a strict type of morality using god as the author of said morality and the eternal punisher of the immorals? IMNSHO, does not compute.
Sorry...didn't mean to hijack...just wierd I was having the same convo.
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minimus
I agree, Dag.
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PSacramento
However, more documented are the accounts of rape, incest, multiple wives, concubines, adultery, fornication, prostitution, temple prostitues etc...with little consequences. How can anyone with a straight face try to enforce a strict type of morality using god as the author of said morality and the eternal punisher of the immorals? IMNSHO, does not compute.
One needs to remember that, what was written in the OT was written by men and while the parts about God and his laws may have SOME truth to them, we must also admit the possibility that, man being man, much was made to maintain a status quo for those in power and the previlages that they had.
Now, even in the NT, Jesus does NOT come out and blatantly condem slavery and opperssion per say, he even goes as ffar as to say to "render to Caesar what is Caesars", almots condoning if you will, slavery and oppression. Paul also mentions fo slaves to NOT rebel and to obey their masters.
Of course Jesus and Paul both mention that there are no masters and that all are equal and all are servants.
In the NT we see a pattern of "free the mind and heart and the body will follow", we also see a pattern of NOT inciting people to violence that would cause their death, a long the lines of the great MLK jr and Ghandi.
Now, this has little to do with the concubine and polygamy issue per say, but it does show that God takes into account the siruation of the people at the time.
I don't think God condoned these things, I just think that God had more important issues and concerns abut what was going on and polygamy and concubines were NOT high on that list.
Perhaps.
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snowbird
In other words, He saw the BIG picture and was not constrained by puny little men and their puny little ... well, you get the picture.
Sylvia
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PSacramento
LOL !
And said with less words too !
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minimus
With over 600 laws covering EVERYTHING from menstruation to taking a crap, you would think having sex with multiple women might be somewhere on the list. But as was mentioned, God was ready to provide more women for David if he wished.
It wasn't because having multiple sex partners wasn't a priority, it's because it was deemed as being good.
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PSacramento
With over 600 laws covering EVERYTHING from menstruation to taking a crap, you would think having sex with multiple women might be somewhere on the list. But as was mentioned, God was ready to provide more women for David if he wished.
It wasn't because having multiple sex partners wasn't a priority, it's because it was deemed as being good.
The VAST MAJORITY of those laws were man made and attributed to God.
Jesus condemended them for this on a few occasions.
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Scully
You'd think that out of 1000 women to bed, Solomon could have found at least one that wasn't PMSing or having her period.
But then again, women who spend all their waking hours together (as in a harem) usually have their cycles synchronize after a while. The poor bastard must have gone on safari every month at the first catty remark....
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minimus
seems fishy