I am more than happy to accept that different people can interpret passages in different ways, and that context plays a big role. Indeed, I wish more people around here accepted that.
That is most magnanimous of you. Please tell us how many "different ways" that this can be LEGITIMATELY and LOGICALLY be interpreted?
The word translated "adultery" is used 34 times in the KJV Its meanings are below.
adulteresses (1), adultery (1), all adulterers (2), also of the adulterer (1), and against the adulterers (1), and commit adultery (1), and committed adultery (1), and committing adultery (1), and the adulteress (1), because they (1), committed adultery (1), from them! for they (1), have they committed adultery (1), Neither shalt thou commit adultery (1), of adulterers (1), of adulteresses (1), of an adulterous (1), of the adulterer (1), shall commit adultery (1), that committeth adultery (3), That they have committed adultery (1), the adulterer (1), thee, as women that break wedlock (1), They (1), they commit adultery (1), they then committed adultery (1), Thou shalt not commit adultery (1), when they commit adultery (1), whoso committeth adultery (1), with adulterers (1), yet an adulteress (1)
Exod 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery .
Lev 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another mans wife, even he that
committeth adultery with another mans wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbours wife, the adulterer and
he that committeth adultery with his neighbours wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put
committeth adultery with his neighbours wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Deut 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery .
Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye
Ps 50:18
thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers .
Prov 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he
Prov 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
Isa 57:3
hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jer 3:8
when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given
Jer 3:9
of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Jer 5:7
when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the
Jer 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto
Jer 9:2
that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous
people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jer 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land
Jer 23:14
in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also
Jer 29:23
have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours wives, and have spoken
Ezek 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Ezek 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I
Ezek 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and
is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom
Ezek 23:45
men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that
after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their
of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Hos 3:1
yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD
Hos 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth
Hos 4:13
your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery .
Hos 4:14
daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with harlots, and
Hos 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,
Mal 3:5
will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those
Now please tell me and others how these passages can have
different people can interpret passages in different ways as you preposterously allege. Saying that aloud would make someone's face break, it is so contradictory.
To bolster my point, here it is defined from first a secular, contemporary source Merriam Webster's 11th collegiate
adultery \ə-ˈdəl-t(ə-)rē\ n
pl -teries [ME, alter. of avoutrie, fr. AF avulterie, fr. L adulterium, fr. adulter adulterer, back-formation fr. adulterare] 15c : voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband also : an act of adultery
Here it is in a world-recognized source of Biblical data:
Adulterer (ess), Adulterous, Adultery
ADULTERER (ESS), ADULTEROUS,ADULTERY
A. Nouns.
1. MOICHOS (
μοιχός , (3432)) denotes one who has unlawful intercourse with the spouse of another, Luke 18:11; 1 Cor. 6:9; Heb. 13:4. As to Jas. 4:4, see below.
¶
2. MOICHALIS (
μοιχαλίς , (3428)), an adulteress, is used (
a) in the natural sense, 2 Pet. 2:14; Rom. 7:3; (
b) in the spiritual sense, Jas. 4:4; here the
R.V. rightly omits the word adulterers. It was added by a copyist. As in Israel the breach of their relationship with God through their idolatry, was described as adultery or harlotry (
e.g., Ezek. 16:15,
etc.; 23:43), so believers who cultivate friendship with the world, thus breaking their spiritual union with Christ, are spiritual adulteresses, having been spiritually united to Him as wife to husband, Rom. 7:4. It is used adjectivally to describe the Jewish people in transferring their affections from God, Matt. 12:39; 16:4; Mark 8:38. In 2 Pet. 2:14, the
lit. translation is full of an adulteress (R.V.
marg.).¶
3. MOICHEIA (
μοιχεία , (3430)), adultery, is found in Matt. 15:19; Mark 7:21; John 8:3 (
A.V. only).¶
B. Verbs.
1. MOICHAŌ (
μοιχάω , (3429)), used in the Middle Voice in the
N.T, is said of men in Matt. 5:32; 19:9; Mark 10:11; of women in Mark 10:12.¶
2. MOICHEUŌ (
μοιχεύω , (3431)) is used in
Matt. 5:27, 28, 32 (in
ver. 32 some texts have
No. 1); 19:18; Mark 10:19; Luke 16:18; 18:20; John 8:4; Rom. 2:22; 13:9; Jas. 2:11; in Rev. 2:22, metaphorically, of those who are by a Jezebels solicitations drawn away to idolatry.¶
¶ ¶ indicates that all the N.T. occurrences of the Greek work under consideration are mentioned under the heading or subheading.
Vine, W., & Bruce, F. (1981; Published in electronic form by Logos Research Systems, 1996).
Vine's Expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words (33). Old Tappan NJ: Revell.
Now, I RESPECTFULLY submit to you that in the light of all above, that I have submitted, for ANYONE to attest to the position that
different people can interpret passages in different ways as you state is either delusional or worshiping a god of her/his own making, and is not the same God as that of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
If you or anyone else is able able to LEGITIMATELY and LOGICALLY say differently what I wrote above is incorrect, and not some politically correct new age mumbo jumbo, etc, I want to see that.
Meanwhile, I prefer to believe that God did not stutter; He says what He means, means what he says, and those who try to distort what he clearly stated needs to read his promise to you in the last chapter of Revelation. It is devastating.