Zambales wrote:Adama wrote:Know the law. It's a sin worthy of death. No divorced women. No women who broke up with her boyfriend to be with you.
Marrying divorced women is also adultery. It can also be argued that the act of intercourse itself is marriage (since women were only supposed to have one partner), and because the only difference between wife and concubine (girlfriend) is technicality. This would mean that girlfriends are counted as wives according to the law. So no going with a woman who has a boyfriend either.
Know the law. For men, adultery is going with another man's wife. For women, it is when they cheat on their man.
You're missing a trick there Adama. You can do all that stuff then ask for forgiveness and you're back in the good books. Its a win/win situation because you'll still go to heaven. Everyone else does it. God's cool like that.
Well listen. You can commit adultery and then get saved, yes. But remember, it is a sin worthy of earthy death. It carries the death penalty which means God takes this very seriously. There are a few sins which are worthy of death, just so that you see how serious it is: kidnapping, pre-meditated murder, rape, beastiality, man on man intercourse, and adultery are all sins worthy of the death penalty in God's sight. That's how bad adultery is to be put in the same category with murder, rape and beastiality.
Even if you get saved, you won't escape the earthly chastisement of The Lord. It would be great if He was merciful towards the adulterer, but He is already merciful in that He isn't sending believers to hell for those crimes. So if a believer commits them, that believer will pay for those sins in this life, which such mysterious things as physical illness (if you wonder where that sick, long term disease may come from, it is told in the Bible that the body receives disease as punishment; that might be leprosy, but I don't see any reason why it can't also be Lupus, MS, MD, IBS, psoriasis or any number of diseases).
Not to mention whatever else might get injured in return, such as heartbreak, which is not minor in my opinion.
Then there is financial distress.
And finally, your children may not escape from what you've done, because He may hold them accountable, whether you are a believer or not, adultery destroys families for generations. That's with or without God's chastisement intervention. Meaning adultery often leads to divorce, fatherless children, loss of the honor of raising your own children, poverty, etc. Even King David's family was held accountable for his adultery with Uriah's wife and murder of Uriah for generations.
God says that He punishes the children of those who hate Him for up to four generations. So if you intend to have children, be very careful not to do things which they will have to pay for in their lives. God also says when we sin, it means we hate Him. So sins which are worthy of death mean the person really hates God. (And when we keep His commandments, He says that is the proof that we love Him.)
So yes, you can do all those things and still be granted or possess eternal life, but you are destroying your current earthly life and your children's lives and futures just for a few moments of pleasure.
Also for the unsaved, the deeper they go in committing these disgusting acts, the farther they are going down the road of perdition. These people often love their sin so much that when someone presents the gospel to them, they refuse to believe because their souls know it will mean that eventually God may force them to stop committing adultery or homosexuality. So they refuse to believe. At that point, they have chosen the love of pleasure over the love of God, which may render them reprobate.
God's mercy is not infinite, and you do not have until your dying breath. You have until He is done with you. He may be done with you upon your death, or He may be done with you long before then when you refuse Him. That can happen as early as childhood.
A good man is above pettiness. He is better than that.
