Posted on 05/21/2015 6:18:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.
This revolution consisted of forcing the sexual genie into the marital bottle. It ensured that sex no longer dominated society, heightened male-female love and sexuality (and thereby almost alone created the possibility of love and eroticism within marriage), and began the arduous task of elevating the status of women.
It is probably impossible for us, who live thousands of years after Judaism began this process, to perceive the extent to which undisciplined sex can dominate man's life and the life of society. Throughout the ancient world, and up to the recent past in many parts of the world, sexuality infused virtually all of society.
(Excerpt) Read more at orthodoxytoday.org ...
According to Jesus, marriage was God’s plan from the beginning...
Matthew 19:4-6 “And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Whether Jews believe in Jesus as the Christ or not, I think Jesus’ interpretation of Genesis is right on. Noah received guidance, but the plan was there before Noah.
I notice that this “PIECE” was only reserved for the Christians and the Jews. Let me ask this question: “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A JEW OR A CHRISTIAN KILLED A HOMOSEXUAL”? Meanwhile the Muslim religion has never been asked that question. If you will notice, most of the killings of homosexuals are being done by the MUSLIMS. We see in every day news, how MUSLIMS are killing homosexuals by the hundreds, if not by the thousands. Yet no one in the liberal, socialist or communist group has ever made any accusations to the MUSLIMS
What did he interpret? A specific verse is quoted...
Yes, I do. It is a very well developed argument.
One interesting tangent shooting off from Preager's observation that Jews would not have considered an unmarried Rabbi to have the necessary gravitas to be a leader of a congregation is what to make of Christ.
I can see a number of interpretations:
1. His unmarried status may explain, to some extent, why the religious hierarchy took a dim view of His teachings.
2. Being Devine Himself, He did not require a mate to increase His holiness.
3. Jesus represents an evolutionary step in monotheism that transcends the Old Testament conscriptions.
Nevertheless, I think, this is a very thoughtful essay.
I think Jesus is the exception to the rule because as the Son of God, the Church (the entire body of believers) is to be His bride.
Because God said so?
It could explain why he was so poorly received in the Synagogue.
This article goes right along with an article posted just a short time before on FR about the new “Mad Max” movie. The original article is at http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/emmad_maxem_and_the_dreamwork_of_homosexuality.html
Yes, the wealthy or kings might have harems, but that was true of the old Jewish kings too.
I’ve brought up his points in arguments with feminists.
No society that ever tolerated homosexuality ever treated women as equals.
Ditto polygamy. Women always wind up as slaves. Always.
“Of course, the lib in question didn’t have the biblical knowledge to understand what I was talking about.”
I’ll bet not. Most people wouldn’t. I presume you are referring to Isaiah’s prophesies. He was either a time traveller, or Someone was telling him the future.
From God via the Jewish faith.
Though I'm not quite sure what happens to Polygamy, Biblically. The Patriarchs and Kings were not one-woman men. And this is never explicitly repudiated. It does seem, historically, that polygamy had become rare among the Jews--- if it had not faded out entirely --- by the Christian era.
I read articles on this a while back in the Jewish Encyclopedia online (both on Monogamy and on Polygamy) and --- if I'm remembering correctly -- over the centuries just before and just after the time of Christ (though they didn't describe the timing that way) it gradualy disappeared. There wasn't a General Council of some kind that specifically rejected it. Polygamy simply became, for most of Judaism, a moot point. Anybody have more information on that?
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/558598/jewish/Does-Jewish-Law-Forbid-Polygamy.htm
The Jewish Encyclopedia is not really a Jewish source. A similar source that is Jewish is
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
Thanks for this reference. Polygamy seems to have been mainly a “king” thing.
Thanks for these references. It’s an interesting history.
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