by BU2B 51 Replies latest jw friends
The xian concept of Adultery is another lie which they have made up and claim is founded on the Bible. The truth is theres not a single example of a man being condemned or punished with plenty of opportunities but the author fails to do so.
Most of Christianity is based on lies about its Bible claims. This is yet another.
Has anyone else noticed this double standard?
Yes, I have. Another BIG reason I can't take the Bible seriously.
Flyinghighnow a women can not speak in the church of jwn she must sit in silence. Why does Simon let women post here? 1cor 14:34
Tru, last time I checked, JWN wasn't a church. Besides that, intelligent, secure men aren't intimidated by women and feel no need to subjugate them.
You know i am being sarcastic. I hope you get my sence of humor.
Misogyny is rampant throughout the Bible. It's not surprising knowing that the authors of the Bible are Bronze Aged Middle Eastern men.
You know i am being sarcastic. I hope you get my sence of humor.
My answer had a tone of sarcasm, too. Nut. Are you intimidated by us women? Do you want to subjugate us?
The fact is: prior to the Christian New Covenant, God did allow concubines and it was not adultery! Adultery was taking another man's wife (or another woman's husband),
Did Jesus see a difference in a legal marriage and a 'live-in "
"16 He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." 17 "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." (John 4 NIV)
Further evidence that marriage is a legal matter is seen in the Bible's very extensive use of mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law and son-in-law.
The practise of a man having more than one wife or concubines continued into the Roman society of Jesus' day but although no single statement of Jesus or Paul completely barred this approach for Christians it starts to become clear that the practise is hardly consistent with the Christian life. A consideration of Jesus' comments in Matthew 5-7, Matthew 19:1-9 and perhaps especially Paul's comments on marital love in 1 Corinthians 7 tell us much more. Paul assumes either no marriage or monogamous marriage within the Christian life
So why did God ever allow such things?
I think that here we have to remind ourselves that we cannot question the choices or decisions of God!! In the very early years after Creation, for instance, men would necessarily have had to marry their close female relations, but later on this became barred with strict laws against incest. Are we going to question God over this? What right would we have to question the wisdom of our Creator? Then, for a long period of time, plural marriages, concubinage and very large families were allowed (and the latter certainly encouraged), and there is ample reason to think that the need to re-build the world's population, post-flood, may well have been a reason for this. But where these things were taken to excess, the Lord issued warnings. See Genesis 6:1-2 for instance.
"6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Which case greed & lust were present with no thought of comitment or upright purpose.
I think that here we have to remind ourselves that we cannot question the choices or decisions of God!!
I think we most certainly can question whether your examples really had anything to do with the real God, or whether some guys made it all up and credited God with the misogynistic oppression of women and girls. A lot of us do not believe that a loving God would have authored some of the evil things credited to him in the Bible.
When it comes to adultery, we hear a lot of complaining coming from the so called innocent party, but we often never hear the so called guilty's side of the story. Sometimes the "innocent" party has broken other vows like paying the marital due or been impossible to communicate with or taken the "guilty" party severely for granted and been unwilling to communicate about trying to make the marriage more happy. Sometimes there is pressure for both parties to stay in an unhappy or lopsided situation. The communication is so poor that one or both step outside the marriage for love and communication, laughter, etc.
Jesus attitude towards the woman who committed adultery that they wanted to stone, says it all to me. He came to show us who God really was.
He said 'let he who is without sin cast the first stone'. When they had all gone, he asked where her accusers were. On seeing none he said to her 'neither do I accuse you'.
