Defense of marriage

Da Blonde Bombshell · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: Defense of marriage

Defense of Marriage

By Norman Shoaf

Concerned folks all the way from the President’s Prayer Team right on down to the ordinary man about town about a Constitutional Amendment that would legally clarify and codify the definition of marriage.

In support of that goal, and in consideration of the Judeo-Christian principles we all prize, here are some injunctions from the Bible that those who create any such Amendment will want to be sure to include:

Marriage should be defined as the union of one man and one or more women (Genesis 29:16-30; 2 Samuel 3:2-5).

Marriage should not impede a man’s right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives (2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Kings 11:3; 2 Chronicles 11:21).

A marriage should be only considered valid if the wife is proved a virgin. If the wife is found out to not be a virgin, she must be killed (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

Marriage between believers and nonbelievers shall be illegal (Genesis 24:3; Numbers 25:6-9; Ezra 9:12; Nehemiah 10:30).

No matter how unsatisfying a marriage may be, divorce shall never be allowed (Deuteronomy 22:19; Mark 10:9).

If a married man dies without children, his brother shall marry his widow. If his brother refuse to marry his widow or refuses to impregnate her, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and otherwise be punished in a manner to be determined by law (Genesis 38:6-10; dueteronomy 25:5-10).

If a man rapes a virgin, he must pay her father a cash settlement and then marry the girl (Deuteronomy 22:28-29).

Since the end of the world is near, it is better to remain unmarried and devote oneself to God. Those who are married face many troubles, while the unmarried are rightly concerned not with how to please a husband or wife but how to please the Lord (1 Corinthians 7:26-28, 32-35).
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Zathrus · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

I don't think I see a problem with the first and second items.

As for the third, we can't expect the impossible, can we?

And as for the very last item, we've been waiting a long time for the end of the world. I believe we'll wait a long time yet. If we all stop marrying and stop reproducing, our race will become extinct. Of course, that may not be a bad thing for all the other species we're pushing toward extinction.
Wouldn't it be fun to watch palientologists of some alien race who land on earth millions of years from now trying to figure out why we became extinct?
Wink

Van · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject:

The post concerning what the Bible says concerning marriage is a fiction. The real agenda here is to undermine the Bible's guidance concerning sexual behavior. The temple laws and the civil laws no longer apply, and there is division on this board concerning the moral laws. I say they still apply to the lost, but only the ones restated by Jesus and his disciples in the New Testament apply to the saved. And the application for the saved is guidance only as the saved face no penality for breaking the Law of Liberty. The purpose is to bring on an awareness of guilt which leads to repentance.

Da Blonde Bombshell · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

Van · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:40 am Post subject: