2006-09-09 21:19:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hosea. He was told to marry Gomer, who was a prostitute. Gomer symbolized the people of Israel while Hosea symbolized God. The Israelites (and us today) kept prostituting themselves by worshipping other gods, but God loved (and still loves) them (and us) enough to keep taking them back and calling them His own.
2006-09-09 21:21:01 · answer #1 · answered by midlandsharon 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is any significance whatsoever. Unless you are already quite religious and attribute a meaning to it which might not even be justified.
2006-09-10 04:24:50 · answer #2 · answered by midwestbruin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hosea, to show that G-d continues to love israel even when as we abandon him for other gods.
EDIT
there is a significance to every biblical story, midwestbruin, its just hard to find sometimes.
2006-09-10 04:23:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hosea.
2006-09-10 04:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by neshama 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HOSEA WAS MARRIED TO THE PROSTITUTE AS A SYMBOL OF ISRAEL'S LOVE OF IDOLITRY. HOSEA WOULD GO AND TEND TO HIS WIFE AND LOVED HER EVEN THOUGH SHE DID NOT DESERVE THIS AS GOD ALSO LOVED ISRAEL AND WOULD SOOTHE HER WOUNDS FROM SUCH A MISEARABLE LIFE.
2006-09-10 04:22:36 · answer #5 · answered by baptism_by_fire_2000 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus? Wasn't he with that Mary Magdalene chick? That's what the Da Vinci Code said.
2006-09-10 04:22:52 · answer #6 · answered by Redeemer 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋