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Is that a yes or no you believe in the miracle of Christ risen from the dead Bodily?My stake in the ground is about the paradigm - not the literal word.
The notion of a God and what that means to me as a human being is the big picture issue. Getting wrapped up in the meaning of a single verse isnt helpful to me. In fact my observation is that an approach such as that, leads to conflict inside and outside of the Christianity. It leaves no room for discussion and cohesion between religions. Its more focused on what an apostle may or may not have said, instead of spirituality.
It was a culture which even in NT times refused to live by God's design. Jesus rebuked their traditions.Yes of course its modern - its meant to be. My whole point was that verses were written within a culture that does not prevail now.
I think you are confusing Mosaic law with what was taught in the NT.We don't stone. We don't offer our daughter up to her rapist.
Men and women are to be complimentary and rely on each other. As the Apostle Paul points out here:And women lead in all walks of life and are not dependent on men. They were at the time those verses were written.
1 Corinthians 7: NASB
1Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
It's unfortunate you don't believe in the texts from the beginning. Jesus quoted from Genesis 2:As for the Adam and Eve story - I do not take that as a literal story. If you want to use any lesson from the story.... Well my pastor describes it as a story that Eve was deceived, but Adam wasn't. Adam's act was a wilful crime contradicting Gods law, and compounded his ineptitude by attempting to blame Eve. Eve was tricked, but took the rap for it....I'm guessing that's what we need to understand from the tale.... I see it as a 'Be wary of men and liars' story.
Genesis 2: NASB
24For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Matthew 19: NASB
4And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, 5and said, ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’? 6“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” 7They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SENDher AWAY?” 8He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. 9“And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
If you don't accept Genesis then at least trust the words of Jesus.
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