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What did she do though while exercising her faith? Did she not lie?
That is his point. She lied to keep the spies safe. Is not a lie a lie?
Another good question is, where do you think those who lied during World War II will end who hid the Jewish people? Did they not lie?
What did she do though while exercising her faith? Did she not lie?
doesn't matter. the passage in hebrews isn't commending her for lying or for being a harlot. it's commending her for how she treated the spies joshua sent out.
again, the point is moot.
She may not be commended for it, but it's still there.
it's really sad to witness people desperately searching for a loophole to justify an adulterous relationship.
really sad indeed.
and you're a day late and bible verse short on that claim.It's really sad that other Christians are wanting to hold people in bondage over something that Jesus himself didn't.
you just conceded you point here. she wasn't commended for lying, as the writer of hebrews doesn't mention it, so nowhere in scripture, including this passage is lying promoted.
you'll need to find another loophole to justify adultery.
and you're a day late and bible verse short on that claim.
as i said before, you're an adult and can make your own decisions. sinful or not.
but how she handled the spies when people came looking for them.
uh huh,Yep, and when I am remarried it will not be sinful.
It's really sad that other Christians are wanting to hold people in bondage over something that Jesus himself didn't.
uh huh,
proverbs 14:12
what does providing lodging for spies and believing that these spies that joshua sent out are the people of God that will inherit the land have to do with lying....or being a harlot?
go ahead and explain that please.
Okay, but that obviously means that it isn't prohibited "for any reason." In any case, it is divorce and remarriage that we are talking about here.In this case, an argument can be made that Jesus prohibited divorce for any reason (although Moses explicitly was understood to allow it). Jesus then allows divorce in the case of immorality.
Because she lied when they asked where they were. In order to provide lodging, she lied.
How hard was that?
joshua 2:2-13
2 Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.”
So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.”
3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.”
4 Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. 5 And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.” 6 (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.) 7 Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
8 Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, 9 and said to the men: “I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token, 13 and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”
the bolded is what the writer of hebrews is commending rahab for, which has to do with her faith and did not require her to lie about anything.
this is what "received the spies in peace" is referring to.
so in order to invite them into her house she had to lie?
in order to believe who these guys were and that they would inherit the land she had to lie?
???
i know where your "key part" is, and my point is the writer of hebrews doesn't commend her for it or even mention it.The key part where she lied is in here:
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