Hosea 1 says, "When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, 'Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution.'"
According to literal translation, the woman God told Hosea to marry was a prostitute BEFORE he married her. If sex automatically constitutes a marriage in God's eyes, then God just commanded one of his own people to marry someone else's wife. That is adultery.
2007-09-03 09:28:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The question is this.. Do you still think sex equals marriage? Or does God break his own rules?
2007-09-03 09:29:33 · update #1
Never imagined sex was marriage. If sex was marriage what is fornication and adultery? Wouldn't that simply be polygamy?
2007-09-03 10:35:31 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't say sex equals marriage. The idea is that you have sex within marriage. Big difference. So no, God wasn't telling Hosea to commit adultery.
You need to find a better outlet for that anger.
Rizz, Hosea IS a book in the Christian bible. I'm looking at it right here.
2007-09-03 09:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by babbie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First off, she wasn't someone elses wife.
Secondly God did this to have Hosea be an example to His people of how they (being the Israelites) acted like a prostitute towards God. They worshipped idols, commited acts against God, etc.
It's one of those verses that you can't just look at out of context.
And sex doesn't automatically mean marriage. I don't know where you heard that. In the Bible it says that if you slept with a girl without being married, then you SHOULD take her as your wife. It never said you ARE married.
2007-09-03 09:35:57 · answer #3 · answered by Megan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think you will find a passage in Scripture where sex equals marriage, if you do, I would be willing to look at it and comment appropriately. Sex unites people physically and emotionally, hence the hurt feelings and sense of betrayal when someone cheats on their spouses. it is more than just a physical act. The larger lesson behind this story is God's relationship with the nation of Israel. He was ever faithful to them, but they were not faithful to Him. Yet, even after the nation of Israel prostituted itself with other gods, He still lovingly took them back and forgave them. It was an object lesson to His people, Israel.
2007-09-03 09:39:38 · answer #4 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sex does not equal marriage. it does not automatically marry the two. All the Bible states is "You shall not commit adultery". It's one of the 10 Commandments. i got no idea where u got the = part from.
2007-09-03 09:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have never personally hear ed that sex equals marriage before, I do believe that you should wait until you are married to have sex, but that is a moral choice that we all must make.
2007-09-03 09:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoever said that sex equals marriage? Sex before marriage is called fornication in the Bible.
2007-09-03 09:35:28 · answer #7 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I have heard any Christian make the argument you are attacking (and, assuming it was an argument posed, it was probably made by a teenager). But, seeing as how marriage doesn't mean a whole anymore either (see:divorce rates), I don't think it matters what you believe on the matter.
2007-09-03 09:37:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who ever said Sex=Marriage??? I believe that if you have sex with someone, you should be married first. And if you do before marriage (not a good thind, and I don't support it) you sould get married. No sex doesn't equal marriage. It equals a bond with your spouse.
2007-09-03 09:37:33 · answer #9 · answered by Ashla 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The idea is clear that sex is intended for marriage. Sex and all that it entails is an intimate act. But, there are those who trash the idea of intimacy and take commitment out of it. It is not God's design for sex, at all.
2007-09-03 09:38:25 · answer #10 · answered by TroothBTold 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋