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@ sandman
maybe interpretation is the wrong word. The quote dileberately took the start of the next parable and sliped it into the other to suggest something that isn't in the text when read in it's proper form.
i was being nice, misleading would have been better word but i can think of others.
Polygamy in the bible:
Abraham, Jacob, Esau, Ajamil.... all had lots of wives
Genesis 16:1-4
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. And Sarai ... gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived.
Genesis 25;6
But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
ect, ect
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I would like to use a word you said.
Misleading.
How nice of you to only look that the old testament.
What im getting at, is you are not portraying the complete picture.
You state examples of Polygamy as 'evidence' which is cleverly portrayed however, it is Misleading. You missed out alot, perhaps all, of the contextualisation, and the meanings behind the verses you just quoted.
I implore you to re-read.
Or would you rather me contextualise and give you the bible study on
Abram and Sarai ?
All mortal sins are clearly outlined within the text.
Sure there are alot of stories which can be interpreted to find their moral. ex.jonah and the wale, Abraham and issaac, jesus and the poor fishermen.
but all sins are made perfectly clear. sex before marriage itsn't one of them. And no text can be brought forward that says otherwise
There is no Hebrew or Greek word used in the Bible that precisely refers to sex before marriage.
However, the Bible undeniably condemns adultery and sexual immorality, but is sex before marriage considered sexually immoral?
I will like to refer to the letters paul wrote to the Corinthians on marriage.
[spoiler=1 Corinthians 7 :1-7]1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
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In this verse, Paul states that marriage is the “cure” for sexual immorality. First Corinthians 7:2 is essentially saying that, because people cannot control themselves and so many are having immoral sex outside of marriage, people should get married. Then they can fulfill their passions in a moral way.
Sex before marriage is included in the biblical definition of sexual immorality. There are numerous Scriptures that declare sex before marriage to be a sin (Acts 15:20; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7).
Hebrews 13:4,
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
i still dont see anything that says no sex before your married?
it just says avoid sexual immorality, which i take to mean no sex with another mans wife no sex with other men and no sex with animals
'Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body" I Corinthians 6:18
Fornication is defined by: sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
Good enough for you?