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1 | What end results come from Prov. 6:31? | Prov 6:31 | biblenovice | 224339 | ||
Proverbs 6:31 immediately follows Proverbs 6:30. I don't know of any practicing Christians who would demand a sevenfold return from someone who stole food because he (or she) was hungy. That would seem very much out of step with the teachings of Jesus! But what if "the thief" did not steal food, but scammed people out of large amounts of money (such as retirement savings)? What does the KJV Bible mean by "if the thief be found"? Found by whom or by what means? If the thief is not "found" (by humans), does that mean the thieves do not have to repay what they stole, nor the specified multiples thereof? God, being omnicient (sp?) always finds all thieves, rendering the condition "if the thief be found" rather meaningless, wouldn't you agree? Finally, some translations word this Bible verse as "the thief shall restore" (implying it's a done deal, and the thief has no choice in the matter), as opposed to "the thief must restore" (implying the thief has to make his own decision about restoration); "fat chance" if the thief has no remorse about the thefts! Can anyone out there shed some light on this subject, for the benefit of those who were robbed years ago, without any sort of compensation to date? | ||||||
2 | What end results come from Prov. 6:31? | Prov 6:31 | Beja | 224340 | ||
biblenovice, Why are you asking this question again when it has already spent a thread on it? Nevertheless I will answer. You are horribly missreading this passage. This is not a passage that promises that a man who steals will always unfailingly pay back what he owes. For you to interpret it like that is a very huge mistake. Let me help you see what the passage is truely saying. First, verses 20-35 is one complete passage addressing the subject of adultery. Read this as a full complete arguement. Verses 20 through 24 brings up and introduces what is being discussed. Verses 25 and 26 are instructions to avoid an adulteress. Verse 27 through 29 is the writer expressing that one who sleeps with the adultress will not be able to avoid punishment. Now in that context we finally come to verses 30 and 31. Here the writer is trying to make a point. His arguement goes like this: When we look at the law even when we see a poor person who though he has no malice, whom through his poverty he must finally choose to either starve or steal to survive, even such a person as this when he is found out must according to the law restore sevenfold. He is talking about the legal punishment, not a prophetic promise that it will come about! So he goes from this, that even somebody we can so very much sympathize with such as a starving man trying to feed his family must pay the consequences, how much more so will the fool who sleeps with another man's wife? And that is what we see in verses 32-35. It says the husband who was wronged will not stop from having his vengeance. So the point of this passage is NOT to say that you will one day get your money back. The point is that if a theif forced into crime from starvation will be punished, how much more an adulter who wrongs another man by sleeping with his wife! Something that there can never be a sympathetic reason for doing. So in conclusion, you are missreading scripture. Scripture does not promise you that you will be getting your money back. In Christ, Beja |
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