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HeIsRisen2018

HeIsRisen2018

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I'm confused. Doesn't the Bible (or at least what I have been reading about so far in the OT) speak against it? So why then is Ruth talking about marrying her closest relative and in particular her father? Maybe I missed something here because it doesn't all quite add up.
 
HeIsRisen2018 said:
I'm confused. Doesn't the Bible (or at least what I have been reading about so far in the OT) speak against it? So why then is Ruth talking about marrying her closest relative and in particular her father? Maybe I missed something here because it doesn't all quite add up.
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Iḿ not at all sure of what you speak as have never read that, do you have the address for the scriture that has you confused?
 
Ruth, was not speaking about marrying her father, or even a close blood relative of hers. She is talking about marrying a blood relative (cousin) of her mother-in-law. No incest there. And actually Boaz would be fulfilling a family duty by marrying Ruth.
 
Knotical said:
Ruth, was not speaking about marrying her father, or even a close blood relative of hers. She is talking about marrying a blood relative (cousin) of her mother-in-law. No incest there. And actually Boaz would be fulfilling a family duty by marrying Ruth.
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Oh okay, you're right. Sorry, I misread that. However, some cousin marriages are still frowned upon if they're first, but it doesn't sound like that is what it was after all.
 
HeIsRisen2018 said:
Oh okay, you're right. Sorry, I misread that. However, some cousin marriages are still frowned upon if they're first, but it doesn't sound like that is what it was after all.
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Right, and actually Boaz didn't even have right of first refusal. He actually approached his brother who did, and asked if he could take the honor.
 
JohnDB said:
Abraham married his half sister... Sarah.
Kinda weird but then again I didn't live way back when.
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True, I forgot about that. And I still can't figure out where Cain and Able got their wives from. Either God created other people as well as Adam and Eve, or they married their sisters or something. And marrying a half sibling isn't as bad in my book as marrying a full sibling. Would I do it? No, still wrong to me just not as bad.
 
HeIsRisen2018 said:
True, I forgot about that. And I still can't figure out where Cain and Able got their wives from. Either God created other people as well as Adam and Eve, or they married their sisters or something. And marrying a half sibling isn't as bad in my book as marrying a full sibling. Would I do it? No, still wrong to me just not as bad.
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By the time Cain took a wife there was likely around 20,000 people running around. People exponentially multiply.
And the Bible may contain history but it isn't a history book containing everything that happened.
 
Everyone has a different reading skill level. Some have an ability to read some really difficult stuff with obscure fifty cents words and others have a difficult time reading comic books...and of course there are all points in between.

The Message Bible isn't good for in depth word-for-word exegetical study. It's made for those who want to know the basics of what the Bible says. (Which most of us have a difficult time living up to to begin with)
And if it is what she enjoys reading... she is doing better than most people who attend church on a regular basis.
She doesn't want us to spoil the ending of Ruth because she doesn't know it yet. Where most of us groan...to her it's a surprise...and she is delighting in the story.
More power to those who actually want to know. She is doing awesome. She doesn't need to change what she is doing.
She is eagerly doing her study. It's all new to her. She has exactly what she needs at the moment. Somebody loves her and got her that particular Bible because they know her well.
 
JohnDB said:
Everyone has a different reading skill level. Some have an ability to read some really difficult stuff with obscure fifty cents words and others have a difficult time reading comic books...and of course there are all points in between.

The Message Bible isn't good for in depth word-for-word exegetical study. It's made for those who want to know the basics of what the Bible says. (Which most of us have a difficult time living up to to begin with)
And if it is what she enjoys reading... she is doing better than most people who attend church on a regular basis.
She doesn't want us to spoil the ending of Ruth because she doesn't know it yet. Where most of us groan...to her it's a surprise...and she is delighting in the story.
More power to those who actually want to know. She is doing awesome. She doesn't need to change what she is doing.
She is eagerly doing her study. It's all new to her. She has exactly what she needs at the moment. Somebody loves her and got her that particular Bible because they know her well.
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Thanks, my brother got it for me actually. :)
 
By the way, I do attend church on a regular basis, just not every week. Meaning, I go there a lot more often than I used to.
 
HeIsRisen2018 said:
True, I forgot about that. And I still can't figure out where Cain and Able got their wives from. Either God created other people as well as Adam and Eve, or they married their sisters or something. And marrying a half sibling isn't as bad in my book as marrying a full sibling. Would I do it? No, still wrong to me just not as bad.
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No, no, no mam. Depending on the stretch of time Adam and Eve were in the Garden, they married either their sisters or another close relative. In Genesis 1-3 we see that YHWH created one man and one woman and they produced the Human Race, who, by the way is the only Race on this earth. Further more, when YHWH destroyed the Earth with the Noadic Flood, there were only people on the Ark and the three men that brought their wives with them were Noah's and his wife's sons meaning all of us, white, black or speckled purple are related, sister.

It was possible for anybody to marry anyone and this was the case until Yisrael wandered in the Desert for 40 years and Moses received the instructions theInstructions listed in Leviticus, chapter 18 and 20.
 
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