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Originally Posted by MathGeek
I firmly believe in equal justice under law. The language in my posts has been male in character because of a predominantly male readership. My view remains the same if you replace all the male language with the corresponding female language. Some Scriptures that speak on adultery are gender neutral like the ten commandments (Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5), and Jesus firm requirement that divorce only be justified by adultery (Matthew 19). Other verses have male specific language such as Leviticus 18 and Proverbs. Please read what Proverbs 6-7 has to say:
Warnings Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
none who touches her will go unpunished.
30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
35 He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
Warning Against the Adulteress
7 My son, keep my words
and treasure up my commandments with you;
2 keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6 For at the window of my house
I have looked out through my lattice,
7 and I have seen among the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man lacking sense,
8 passing along the street near her corner,
taking the road to her house
9 in the twilight, in the evening,
at the time of night and darkness.
10 And behold, the woman meets him,
dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
11 She is loud and wayward;
her feet do not stay at home;
12 now in the street, now in the market,
and at every corner she lies in wait.
13 She seizes him and kisses him,
and with bold face she says to him,
14 “I had to offer sacrifices,
and today I have paid my vows;
15 so now I have come out to meet you,
to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
16 I have spread my couch with coverings,
colored linens from Egyptian linen;
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;
let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For my husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey;
20 he took a bag of money with him;
at full moon he will come home.”
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast
23 till an arrow pierces its liver;
as a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
24 And now, O sons, listen to me,
and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
26 for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are a mighty throng.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.
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I knew we would get here sooner or later.........
Choke on the Bible lately?
Understand I am a God Fearing man.
But your case of cut and paste or pain staking typing, would lead us to gouging eyes out, sacraficing a lamb or two, maybe even a child......and men would be building their man caves on top of thier houses.
Do we work for churches and religion that will not accept the man with tattoos everywhere? Maybe the single mom with two children out of wedlock?
The murderer? The rapist? The liar? The cheat? The greedy?
We work for a God that forgives, heals, accepts and loves regardless of the circumstances.
Did He not heal the leper? Did He not show mercy to the adultress? Did He not make a desciple of a man who killed christians?
God himself said David was a man after His own heart? Was David not as well an adulterer and murderer?
The bible is the word. I truly believe that...........yet it is not our law.
It is not the judgement, only God is. It is man that uses the Bible preversly to perpetuate his judgement.
My sins and that of everyman, was known before we were born.......God has mercy on us.......
Have you known someone that has lost a child?
Do you know that 70% of those couples will fall into adultery and divorce?
Is that not a circumstance we, as a people can forgive and understand?
There are many that believe my Grandmothers are not in Heaven because they where Catholic.......really? If that is the case, then I do not want to go there.
Are those the same that will not allow a human an indiscrestion?
Jesus did.........why can't we?
Do many not wear the cheesy *** bracelts WWJD?
This thread has taken a turn that was oh so predictable..........
I will stand before any man for what I believe.......and I will stand FOR any man that wants to be in his childs life.
Sin is sin..........hide any money away from your spouse for that new reel?
Tell a tale about the size of a fish? (liars will not inherit the kingdom)
Keep two seperate accounts so you have yours and she has hers?
Take and extra 15 minutes on your lunch?
The law and equal justice have VERY little in common.
What is equal to you is not equal to me.
Laws are meant to change.
What is so much a misunderstanding, is marraige is a choice of FREE will.
Just because you and another choose to get married does not mean in any way God has joined the two of you.
God could very really be thinking "What the heck are they doing"
Adultery is A reason to get divorced.........not THE reason.
It is only a tool in our civil system to beat men down.
You are believing in some very narrow hash marks.
I know this is a group of good men, there are just too many cases to prove that.........
Good men make bad choices