This is a reply to Jon's last post that I read... So then I can assume, you are a nudist, garder, married to woman made from your side. Where does the archetype stop Jon? Is your real name adam, is your wife's eve? Are you a vegetarian? Jon: None of this is nessisary. Which is precisely my point Jon. Adam and Eve are never declared to be a universal archetype. Jesus doesn’t make references to these issues when he discusses Adam and Eve; he merely uses them to answer a question about divorce. To make such an assumption would take you outside the scope of the text. Jesus did not address the issue of monogamy, and you cannot arbitrarily make it about that.
Jesus did address divorce and the permanence of marriage. Certainly that is the original intent, that carries on through all Biblical marriages. I am certain that you do not mean to indicate that David’s marriage to Michal had permanence, and his marriage to Abigail was somehow less permanent.
God does not distinguish between marriages in any Biblical text. When it is even approached it is merely to say that other wives and children must be treated the same as the first. This is indicative of how God sees them, all the same.
Jon: You know the main verse! Matt 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so. ASV This verse is not about monogamy Jon, it is not even about non-monogamy. It’s about marriage and divorce. The verses apply equally to both David’s marriage to Michal and his marriage to Abigail. Don’t they? from the start it was one on one, later on the word says some started to take more than more, God allowed this, but he did not start it himself. Your adding content that just is not there Jon. That’s the same logic that makes you a nudist gardener. God does not say this is the only way it will or should ever be. There is nothing said here that doesn’t apply to all marriages.
We do not have the right to generate meaning where none is specified.
God Bless,
Robert |