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1 | Adultery always involves married woman? | Bible general Archive 4 | Beja | 233633 | ||
Emethalethia, I disagree finally on the way to answer this question but I recognize that you are sincerely trying to make sense of scripture and I respect that. However, let me caution you not to fall into one particular mistake. Just because others face less hostility for holding to the more normal view on this, do not think that others are coming to a different interpretation of scriptural evidence on this issue that they are doing so out of an urge to avoid negative social consequences. As long as another's actions allow us to believe the best of them, we are bound in christian charity to do so. Therefore we ought to assume that they would be willing to follow their beliefs into persecution, only sincere opinion has happen to place them with the majority. As you have given me no reason to assume you do anything but give the benefit of the doubt, I assume you agree with the sentiment. Now with regard to considering your view, what do you make of 1 Timothy chapter three requiring elders to be a "one woman man"? What does it mean, and why is this obligation placed upon them? In Christ, Beja |
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2 | Adultery always involves married woman? | Bible general Archive 4 | EmethAlethia | 233635 | ||
Prove that what I see is not the clearly given meaning, and what was clearly done by God's people, and God, and I will believe as you do. The question is, if the evidence is clearly lining up on the opposite side of the issue, would you be willing to alter your beliefs? What is sacred to you? Your beliefs “about” what God holds sacred, or what “God holds sacred”, i.e. the truth about what He has said and done. Jesus dealt with this a lot. There were religious leaders in his day that would rather die than believe that working on the Sabbath, i.e. healing someone on the Sabbath was indeed violating all that God held dear. Having beliefs that do not line up with the word of God is not a sin. Having beliefs that we refuse to subject to the fullness of the word of God, rightly divided, closing our eyes and ears to the truth, is sin. Do not think that I consider myself above this problem. I have often fought against what is clear from scriptures for months, and sometimes years. I understand internal battles, as well as the costs of altering my beliefs. I eagerly await the additional scriptural support that you have to present, and your reasons for why things are different than they seem. |
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