Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinChief
um, nope.
The commandment as WRITTEN is very very clear. ADULTERY is sex with a MARRIED WOMAN. End of story. In the Judaic tradition it was quite specific.
Now, if you want to talk about the MODERN Church...
If some made up church believes otherwise, then fair enough... but when it comes to defining the Commandments.. I tend to defer to what they were MEANT to be understood to say AT THE TIME THEY WERE WRITTEN and by the people that they were written for.
If I write a law that forbids quaqlagog and I define quaglagog to be the drinking of beer through a straw. Then somewhere down the line people start to think of quaglagog as the drinking of ANY fermented beverage through a straw... Does that mean I am breaking the law if I drink wine through a straw? See the problem with reintepretation?
Sorry for the hijacking... misinterpretation of the bible is a pet peeve....
|
It all boils down to what you think the 10 commandments are. If you think they are a tradition created by humans to govern their own situation in a particular time and place. then, you could make an arguement for a very narrow "constructionist" interpretation. However, in that case, they would have zero relevance for today since that society and culture is long dead. Even modern day religious Jews do not live in the culture of circa 1500 BC, hence the laws written by humans in that time and place have no bearing on today.
If on the other hand you think the 10 commandments are written by God then you would need to consider what the giver of the 10 commandments say about them. I fall into this camp. Specifically, I believe they were written by the Triune God as revealed in the Old and New Testament in order to show all people their sins. Therefore, what the second person of the Trinity (Jesus Christ) has to say about them is very relevant, since Jesus is the author.
I think we probably disagree on who is the author and what was/is their purpose. Without agreement on that point, it is rather difficult to have a meaningful discussion.