Jim
Nets of Wonder
NOTE: This is for anyone, Christian or not, who agrees to argue only from Christian Bibles. Interpretations, and literal or figurative can be argued, but no debates about historicity or authorship.
This is my understanding of God’s laws for marriage and sex, according to His prophets in Christian Bible stories.
According to what God’s prophets say in Christian Bibles, I see Him encouraging people to reproduce, and at the same time assigning lifelong responsibilities to any man and woman, the first time that they join physically in the way that sometimes produces children. Those responsibilities include provisions that leave no doubt about who is the biological father of any child. I also see God prohibiting the practice of substituting men or animals in the place of women, for that kind of joining with a man, and the practice of substituting animals in the place of men, for that kind of joining with a woman.
NOTE: The following has been edited. The original text is below.
That’s all. Apart from those, I don’t see any laws related to sexual stimulation.
I don’t see any prohibition against two men or two women calling their relationship “marriage,” but I don’t see God assigning the same responsibilities to them that he does to a man and woman when they join physically in the way that sometimes produces children.
I would like to know if anyone sees any Old Testament prophets disagreeing with what I’m saying.
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That’s all. Apart from those, I don’t see any laws related to sexual stimulation, or to any kind of relationship between two men or two women, or against calling that “marriage.” It just isn’t the kind of marriage that God is encouraging when He says “Be fruitful and multiply,” and He doesn’t assign the same responsibilities to those couples that he assigns to a man and woman the first time that they join physically in the way that sometimes produces children.
This is my understanding of God’s laws for marriage and sex, according to His prophets in Christian Bible stories.
According to what God’s prophets say in Christian Bibles, I see Him encouraging people to reproduce, and at the same time assigning lifelong responsibilities to any man and woman, the first time that they join physically in the way that sometimes produces children. Those responsibilities include provisions that leave no doubt about who is the biological father of any child. I also see God prohibiting the practice of substituting men or animals in the place of women, for that kind of joining with a man, and the practice of substituting animals in the place of men, for that kind of joining with a woman.
NOTE: The following has been edited. The original text is below.
That’s all. Apart from those, I don’t see any laws related to sexual stimulation.
I don’t see any prohibition against two men or two women calling their relationship “marriage,” but I don’t see God assigning the same responsibilities to them that he does to a man and woman when they join physically in the way that sometimes produces children.
I would like to know if anyone sees any Old Testament prophets disagreeing with what I’m saying.
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Original text:
That’s all. Apart from those, I don’t see any laws related to sexual stimulation, or to any kind of relationship between two men or two women, or against calling that “marriage.” It just isn’t the kind of marriage that God is encouraging when He says “Be fruitful and multiply,” and He doesn’t assign the same responsibilities to those couples that he assigns to a man and woman the first time that they join physically in the way that sometimes produces children.
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Do you see any Old Testament prophets disagreeing with what I’m saying?