Exactly so.
Not only this, but isn't it interesting that any discussion of abstinence and keeping sex within the confines of marriage (which would eliminate this entire issue wholesale) is considered 'self-righteous' bigotry and off the table for discussion or consideration? Instead we get notions about more effective contraceptives rather than advocate people keep it in their pants if they do not want a kid.
LOL! Exactly so - You'll note my post just after yours... GMTA.
With liberty comes responsibility. As I have oft remarked - 'Liberty has responsibilities, Freedom has consequences'. In shorthand, that is the major context of Torah - 'If you keep my commandments, these blessings will be upon you, but if you forget my commandments, these curses await'... As is proven in our culture and society today.
I would rather have liberty than freedom. Thus I study the Law of Liberty, as defined by it's Author.
The application of biblical morality is eschewed by the Morality-Of-This-World-Crusaders who want to have "freedom" and license to do what feels good, and have sex without consequences while demanding to be free from a seared conscience from anyone whom would consider their behavior to be sinful.
Exactly right - exactly. The reality is that there will never be sex without consequence - It is the nature of the thing. And the only way that consequence is legitimated and becomes a blessing is in accepting the responsibility - And that best found in marriage, just as YHWH has said.
Thus the discussion becomes justification and argumentation of the woman's sacred sacrament and 'moral right' to kill the child that results from sex, sans any involvement or input from the father or the men she copulated with.
In this way - such women are not unlike the woman caught in adultery - who alone was brought before Jesus without the man - contrary to scripture and in violation of the law in order to illustrate Jesus as an evil. Jesus did not say the law was wrong, or do away with it. He simply told those who brought the woman caught in the act without the man, that of those eager to stone her - him without sin cast the first stone while Jesus was writing their sins in the sand with His finger.
LOL! Again, precisely right! So many misinterpret that passage! Since Christians by and large are unaware of the 'Old Testament', and are unconcerned with Torah, They turn that very passage into license.
As an aside, why did they bring her to Yeshua instead of to the gate? Why did they give him authority rather than go to the judges? He must have had the right. How so?
That'll break your head.
Lots of Christians like to quote the fact Jesus did not condemn her as some kind of license to do as they please without condemnation. The command to go and sin no more is ignored - deliberately. Had the woman been caught again in the act - and Jesus was not around - the penalty as prescribed by the law would have been carried out.
That goes without even mentioning the fact that as Christians it is not the act of sin itself that condemns one to death - but the very thought and heart of one transgressing the entire spirit of the law, not even just the physical commitment of the sin - being regarded as the same thing as having done the deed.
But that is a 'heart of stone' to those whom are ignorant of the Jesus they profess to believe in, but do not.
Right again. If anything Yeshua increased the strictures of Torah upon his followers, compared to the common interpretation of Moses.
Instead we get treatises about 'compassion' for those who not only are bearing the consequence of sin, but whom use abortion as a form of birth control, as the industry and her 'choice' being justified and exonerated to commit murder so they can be rid of the consequence of sex.
Evil is good and good is an evil in this age we now live.
Oh but I do have compassion for those who have swallowed the lie whole. And for those that turn from the path to hell - A path I know all too well.
But what else to do but shout rebuke and warning? Often they cannot hear until they have been hit by the train, no matter how much you cry out.
It is so heartbreaking. But that is the nature of the lie.