Why did Soloman have 300 concubines? I guess God thought it was allright because since the Bible is inspired from God and God says nothing against the 300 concubines, it is just fine.
Where is my logic flawed? Show me. So God is againest sex without marriage, but here God has no opinion? Everytime I read this, it bothered me. I came to the conclusion that the Bible is written from the male prosective, that is why God seems fine with this, and says nothing againtst sex without marriage, because that is the way the male Israelites wanted it.
Or are you telling me that the Bible is not inspired by God, but inspired by man to get sex. Or God inspired man, man wroted the Bible, but man wanted sex so God had no choice but inclued that He is against?
History reveals that Solomon was very aggressive in his foreign policy. In sealing treaties in ancient days, it was customary for a lesser king to give his daughter in marriage to the greater king (in this case, Solomon). Every time a new treaty was sealed, Solomon ended up with yet another wife. These wives were considered tokens of friendship and "sealed" the relationship between the two kings.
In the process of doing all this, Solomon was utterly disobedient to the Lord. He was apparently so obsessed with power and wealth that it overshadowed his spiritual life. He worshipped some of the false gods of the women who became married to him.
Moreover, in marrying more than one woman Solomon was going against God's revealed will regarding monogamy. From the very beginning God created one woman for one man (see Genesis 1:27; 2:21-25). Deuteronomy 17:17 explicitly instructed the king not to "multiply wives." Moses' law said, the king "shall not multiply horses to himself... Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold" (Deuteronomy 17:16-17).
So Solomon sinned in various ways -- (1) he engaged in polygamy, (2) he violated God's commandment against marrying pagans, (3) he collected huge numbers of horses (a large chariot army), and (4) he gathered vast amounts of gold and silver.
Solomon's tolerance of his wives pagan religions led to terrible sins against God. 1 Kings 11:4-9 states, For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. And the LORD was angry with Solomon...
God allowed Solomon to do what he did and Solomon paid for it (- can you imagine all his mother-in-laws!!) Solomon's free choice and wrong decisions has nothing to do with the inspiration of the Bible.
Yes the Bible is inspired - and yes the Bible does speak of fornication and no God is not fine with it - an author in the NT wrote about it - his name was Paul
I think that you(inca) have had a situation or two, where you have let your children find thing out on there own or have you told them and taught every thing they know!!? Do you think that you would have liked a chance to have more than 1 wife,to sit down a listen to all there feeling,and try to understand all of them,and heard all of ther 10,000 th words they just have to say.
Auto Tuner I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm goofy? Ok, whatever. The movie is "The Wrath of Khan." I understand the universe through math, math is exact, if the universe reflects God's nature(exact), then I do not see the same exactness in the Bible, there are holes.
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Your logic is like swiss cheese - all full of holes. Just because the Bible is inspired doesn't mean everything meets God's approval.
Where is my logic flawed? Show me. So God is againest sex without marriage, but here God has no opinion? Everytime I read this, it bothered me. I came to the conclusion that the Bible is written from the male prosective, that is why God seems fine with this, and says nothing againtst sex without marriage, because that is the way the male Israelites wanted it.
Or are you telling me that the Bible is not inspired by God, but inspired by man to get sex. Or God inspired man, man wroted the Bible, but man wanted sex so God had no choice but inclued that He is against?
History reveals that Solomon was very aggressive in his foreign policy. In sealing treaties in ancient days, it was customary for a lesser king to give his daughter in marriage to the greater king (in this case, Solomon). Every time a new treaty was sealed, Solomon ended up with yet another wife. These wives were considered tokens of friendship and "sealed" the relationship between the two kings.
In the process of doing all this, Solomon was utterly disobedient to the Lord. He was apparently so obsessed with power and wealth that it overshadowed his spiritual life. He worshipped some of the false gods of the women who became married to him.
Moreover, in marrying more than one woman Solomon was going against God's revealed will regarding monogamy. From the very beginning God created one woman for one man (see Genesis 1:27; 2:21-25). Deuteronomy 17:17 explicitly instructed the king not to "multiply wives."
Moses' law said, the king "shall not multiply horses to himself... Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold" (Deuteronomy 17:16-17).
So Solomon sinned in various ways -- (1) he engaged in polygamy, (2) he violated God's commandment against marrying pagans, (3) he collected huge numbers of horses (a large chariot army), and (4) he gathered vast amounts of gold and silver.
Solomon's tolerance of his wives pagan religions led to terrible sins against God. 1 Kings 11:4-9 states, For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. And the LORD was angry with Solomon...
God allowed Solomon to do what he did and Solomon paid for it (- can you imagine all his mother-in-laws!!) Solomon's free choice and wrong decisions has nothing to do with the inspiration of the Bible.
Yes the Bible is inspired - and yes the Bible does speak of fornication and no God is not fine with it - an author in the NT wrote about it - his name was Paul
I think that you(inca) have had a situation or two, where you have let your children find thing out on there own or have you told them and taught every thing they know!!?
Do you think that you would have liked a chance to have more than 1 wife,to sit down a listen to all there feeling,and try to understand all of them,and heard all of ther 10,000 th words they just have to say.
i think that you are goofy some times and you had one of those brain worm put in you head by Kaan(i dont remember what what star trek show it was)
Auto Tuner I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm goofy? Ok, whatever. The movie is "The Wrath of Khan." I understand the universe through math, math is exact, if the universe reflects God's nature(exact), then I do not see the same exactness in the Bible, there are holes.
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