In our current situation here in America in the year 2017, where Trump has promised to coddle homosexuals in their so-called "same-sex marriages" (recently authorized by the United States Supreme Court during the preceeding Obama Regime) - which are in fact properly termed: same-gender homosodomy unions - it almost goes without saying that heterosexual multiple-wives plurality for individual husbands should certainly be allowed legally, along with the fact that a significant number of young couples throughout America have already engaged in cohabitationally living together in a sexual relationship without declaring themselves married to each other.
And it almost goes without saying that at least common-law informal (or non-State-Certified) concubinal marriages (be they acknowledged publicly or secretly covert - as much as that is possible) are certainly preferable to wasting money on masseuse and escort harlots usually involving not free-of-charge but instead paid prostitution.
Moreover, concubinal non-State-Licensed marriages between consenting-adult couples are also obviously preferable to rape and sexual assault or harassment, and/or getting into porn-modeling production and voyeuristic lusting at such lurid and lewd products by an anonymous horde of different men all erotically gazing at a few of the same women without directly touching them or themselves entering into real romantic connection with them.
Justification for being in a common-law non-State-Registered marriage with a chosen permanent concubine is first to acknowledge that being in such non-Married-Licensed but nevertheless valid MARITAL sexual relationship has historical precedent, in that government marriage licenses did not exist before 1910 or so.
Added to that, there is the historical precedent of Old-Testament patriarchs having more than one wife or concubine at a time, or simultaneously, without the Lord's specific condemnation against such.
As you recall, God never once told Abraham that he had sinned by having intercourse for child production with Hagar in addition to Sarah. Nor did He ever condemn Jacob for having two wives and two concubines. Nor David for having multiple wives by whom he procreated offspring.
Two-spouse polygamy of a man having two wives is built right into the Torah, and such is not necessarily relegated to one being a current spouse and the other one divorced.
The Spirit of the Lord inspired Solomon to state that one of his aims in life was to gather "many concubines, man's delight."
The essential principle of multiple-woman polygamy for a man is already practiced by many (even Christian guys) by searching for, acquiring, and at least momentarily saving or retaining (on flashdrive, or hard-drive, or Android memory) a bevy of completely-naked beautiful young women (the web-based internet source being femjoy.com, wearehairy.com, coedcherry.com or whatever).
Such of course conveniently excludes complications of all types which would otherwise be associated with confronting and publicly-observable association with real women who could cause serious problems spiritually, reputationally, financially, medically, and vocationally.
Only for bishops and deacons (i.e. overseers) is monogamy required, being that such are mandated to not simply be males instead of females, but are to be "the husband of one wife" (which words do not instead read: "married only once") which really has nothing to do with being a widower (re-married or not) or divorced -- meaning: not legally or quasi-legally married to multiple wives or concubines simultaneously.
Sometimes a man who becomes an innocent-enough bishop or deacon or elder is divorced for baseless causes and practically has no say in the matter, being that the disbelieving departing-Demas-reminiscent female partner who initiates the divorce (that is: "draws first blood') desires to separate because of some doctrinal or other apostasy of hers (which is not to say that the then-divorced bishop, deacon, overseer was himself partly to blame for mismating with a disbeliever back in the beginning with her).
Though a married woman whose husband dies can remarry according to both First Corinthians chapter 7 and Romans chapter 7 (as did intially-childless Ruth and Abigail of the Old Testament), it is not younger widows who are commanded to re-marry in First Timothy 5:14 but instead younger women [ Gr. ne(o)teras instead of ch(e)ras ] instructed to get married and bear children instead of sterilizing themselves with so-called "birth" "control" but actually: pregnancy-prevention pills and abortion homicide [NOT "reproductive" "health" or simply: "choice"] -- all of which anti-reproductive human-extinction-headed deviancy they have no "right" to commit instead of "perform".
There is no absolutely indication in Scripture that it was contrary to Roman law to be polygamous, and no record in the New Testament stating that polygamy was not practiced by some in the early church.
It almost goes without saying that any guy now in contemporary America entangled in so-called "legal" "same-sex marriage" has not been and is not being arrested, fined, imprisoned, and shot to death or hung for committing State-defined homosodomy), and numerous young couples "legally" living together without declaring themselves married to each other have not been and are not now being arresting, fined, imprisoned, and shot to death or hung for committing State-defined fornication), so it is not statutorily illegal (even for Mormons and islamic immigrants) to get into a common-law, non-adultery-with-mistress, non-adultery-with-harlot-or-prostitute, non-State-Registered marriage of the concubinal type -- in which the female of necessity should at least consistently wear a silver purity ring on the 4th finger of her left hand (to indicate to other men that she is not available for prospective nor ongoing sexual relationship), plus legally verbally declaring and writing her new last name as a hyphenated two-part last name (with either her maiden name being first or the last name of her common-law husband being first).
Inlaw relatives are, in those cases, designated as they would be if there had been a divorce (e.g. step-father, step-mother-step-son, step-daughter, etc.).
What would Jesus say about polygamy?
What would your and your extra-spouse's inlaws say about it? Your church pastor? Your employer? Your close friends and neighbors? The police and courts?
Go ahead and copy it; it is in the public domain, and not copyrighted:
Jeremiah 23:30 Therefore, hey, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words from one another.
Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2:15 Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.
Could polygamous Lamech, Abram (later: Abraham), Jacob (later: Israel), Gideon:
Judges 8:30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
....Elkanah (husband of Hannah), David (with his main wife Bathsheba, two wives Ahinoam and Abigail, his other wives:
First Chronicles 3:1 These are the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelitess,
2 the third Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith;
3 the fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by his wife Eglah;
4 six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
5 These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bathshua, the daughter of Ammiel;
6 then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,
7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,
8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
9 All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.)
....plus Solomon, with his 600 wives and 400 concubines:
First Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.....
.....be accused of being "faithless to the wife of their youth" and/or guilty of "bigamy" for the harems they had?
WHERE did God (if ever) condemn them for such polygamy? Where???
Were the marital harems of Old-Testament saints and Bible-book authors better than such noble and goldly patriarchs committing fornication and adultery with the equivalent of masseuse-harlot prostitutes or call-girl escort whores? Keep in mind that the females in those harems were NOT sluts, but instead marital concubines and wives....and sexually violating any of such could result in Scripturally-ordered stoning or perhaps even cutting off certain body parts (see Deuteronomy 25:11).
Present governmental civil law allows and results in neither arrest nor conviction nor fines nor jailtime for Christian-Bible-forbidden and disallowed so-called "legal" nude-dance bars, brothel prostitution in Nevada, outcall exchange-massage advertisements in publicly-available city tabloids and newspapers, allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, medically-certified abortion-homicide murder against womb babes, anti-creationist and heretical evolutionary mythology, and internet porn ranging from R-to-XXX-rated.
Rather than that wickedness, why not instead allow Christ-justified Biblically-historical harems for qualified polygamous men...instead of restricting everyone (including foreign-visitor Saudi and African sheiks) to sexist-feminists-promoted/beardless-homosexuals-condoned "traditional" 'one man for one woman' monogamy?
First Timothy 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife [no polygamy for them!], temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher....
1Ti 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife [and no polygamy for them!], and let them manage their children and their households well...
If a pastor of an IRS-affiliated 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation church is allowed to preach from a Judeo-Christian KJV or RSV or NASV Old-and-New-Testament Holy Bible....which Bibles contain doctrinal directives the State many times and cases is against in what is "legally" allowed....why cannot such pastors, with "Church" resources (including and beyond merely those of a physical nature) perform common-law marital ceremonies without financial transactions relating to State tax affiliation for Christian couples who do not want to acquire nor possess State marriage licenses nor State marriage certification?
That certainly is preferable to Church-avoiding heterosexual couples "living together and shacking up in sin [outside of any kind of non-Governmental consensual marriage declaration] who neither want to register their romantic relationship with the State, nor want to suffer the anti-getting-married "Premarital-Counseling" interrogation of pseudo-pastors who demonically tyrannize as described below:
First Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
2 through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared,
3 who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods (for pseudo-kosher legalism, or on Fridays or during Lent) which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
5 for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
6 If you put these instructions before the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
...and who clearly disobey:
Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be non-defiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
...with their modern quasi-bible mistranslations against First Corinthians 7:1, imposing a:
"It is good for a man to not marry" damnable and diabolical heresy.
Though 501(c)(3) 'churches' escape tax liability (being "non"-profit taking collections in offering plates) and are under some zoning restrictions relating to IRS plus county/city affiliation, church vestry/custodians/elders do establish service contracts with water, sewer, electrical power, garbage collection, and other utility companies. However, there is no law stating that the managers and owners of such utility businesses who contract services with churches must charge those churches for services done.
The prospects for completely keeping sexually pure (24/7), and for not being able to totally sublimate aroused sexual cravings with diversionary workaholicism, are bleak and practically non-realistic for most normal men, without at least voluntary singular or multiple common-law marital relationships:
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:32 But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her [out to be?] an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
First John 1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we "make" Him (does that mean: "actually turns Him into?") a liar, and His word is not in us.
John 5:10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him [out to be] a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to His Son.
Harem acquisition and retention is, of course, only for 'one man with [multiple] women:'
Romans 7:3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man she is not an adulteress.
First Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to belong to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
First Corinthians 7:40 But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I have the Spirit of God.
Mark 12:19 "Master, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, and leaves his wife behind him, and leaves no children, then his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.
Matthew 22:28 In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her."
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Notice that Jesus did NOT say that they are no longer married but only that there will be no weddings (or as He put it: "neither marry nor are given in marriage"), nor is death the cause of automatic divorce, being that:
Matthew 19:6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man pull apart (and "man" not God pulls things apart when "man" (i.e. a human) dies because of murdering (him)self or others murdering him/her, whether quickly or gradually)."
Ruth 1:3 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
Ruth 1:4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years;
Ruth 1:5 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband.
Ruth 4:13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
Ruth 4:17 And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed; he was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
First Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger-women [Gr. ne(o)teras] widows [Gr. ch(e)ras], for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,
First Timothy 5:12 and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first "pledge."
First Timothy 5:11 But the younger-women [Gr. ne(o)teras] widows [Gr. ch(e)ras] refuse, for when they have begun to "wax" wanton against Christ, they "will" marry,
First Timothy 5:12 having "damnation" because they have cast off their first faith.
The Lord through Saint Paul specificied who ONLY must be monogamous and not polygamous (and what their non-female-leadership-over-men non-feminist-sexist-chauvenist gender is in that case):
First Timothy 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,
First Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well;
Deuteronomy 17:14 "When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, 'I will set a king [Solomon?] over me, like all the nations that are round about me';
Deuteronomy 17:15 you may indeed set as king over you him whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not put a foreigner (Obama?) over you, who is not your brother.
Deuteronomy 17:16 Only [Solomon?] must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.'
Deuteronomy 17:17 And he shall not multiply [idol-worshipping?] wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall [Solomon?] greatly multiply for himself silver and gold.
Leviticus 21:5 They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings [nor have tattoos, per Leviticus 19:28?] in their flesh.
Leviticus 21:7 They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
Hosea 1:2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits [not "performs" abortion homicide as some spectacular medical trick or achievement] great harlotry by rejecting the LORD."
Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
Hosea 1:4 And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for....I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea 1:6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
Hosea 1:7 But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them by the LORD their God....."
Hosea 1:8 When she had weaned Not pitied, she conceived and bore a son.
Hosea 1:9 And the LORD said, "Call his name Not my people, for you are not my people and I am not your God."
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Sons of the living God."
Hosea 1:11 And the people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together [beginning in 1948 A.D. when the State of Israel was re-formed?].....
Hosea 3:1 And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the LORD loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."
Hosea 3:2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley [cheaper than $50-$150 for a masseuse escort].
Hosea 3:3 And I said to her, "You must reside as mine for many days [dissimilar to a non-married masseuse escort]; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."
Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall reside many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.
Hosea 3:5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.
Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, people of Israel; for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land;
Hosea 4:2 there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.
Hosea 4:3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who reside in it languish, and also the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air; and even the fish of the sea are taken away [and thus there is environmental pollution?].
So WHO was that extra gal mentioned in Hosea chapter 3, and was she even an extra woman at all or instead merely a reference to Hosea's wife Gomer?
One thing is for sure. Gomer was indeed defiled, in that she was "a wife of harlotry" and also the woman mentioned in chapter 3 of Hosea was also defiled in that she was both "beloved of a paramour" and "an adulteress."
Reference of the phrase: "the people of Israel" in Hosea 3:1 and "the children of Israel" in Hosea 3:4 and 3:5 plus "David their king" does not necessarily mean that the woman mentioned in Hosea chapter 3 is one and the same as Gomer. Remember, that chapter three women is NOT specifically named as Gomer. Who even knows for sure whether or not Gomer was a Hebrew Jew, and who the duce was "Diblaim"?
Being that Biblical history has been replete with the record of Hebrew patriarchs having multiple concubines . . .
Genesis 25:6 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Genesis 30:1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"
2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
3 Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and even I may have children through her."
4 So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.
5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6 Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son"; therefore she called his name Dan.
7 Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8 Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed"; so she called his name Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10 Then Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, "Good fortune!" so she called his name Gad.
12 Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13 And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the women will call me happy"; so she called his name Asher.
14 In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
15 But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
16 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
17 And God responded to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18 Leah said, "God has given me my hire because I gave my maid to my husband"; so she called his name Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.
20 Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she called his name Zebulun.
21 Afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God responded to her and opened her womb.
23 She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach";
24 and she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!"
25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have given you."
27 But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination [ "divination?" ] that the LORD has blessed me because of you;
[ Note that the entire Jacobic/Israeli tribal structure, even yet mentioned by the twelve tribal names in the future-prophecies-book of Revelation (chapter 7), was and is built upon one-man-with-four-woman God-allowed-and-never-rebuked polygamy, which Hebrew-religion marital relationships were all simultaneously ongoing ].
Second Samuel 5:13 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
Second Samuel 15:16 So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
First Kings 11:3 [Solomon] had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
First Chronicles 3:9 All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
Second Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters)
Esther 2:14 In the evening she went, and in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king [Ahasuerus] again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
Ecclesiastes 2:8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.
Song of Solomon 6:8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
Song of Solomon 6:9 My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her that bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
Daniel 5:2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
. . . and the Holy Spirit, through His Scriptural author Saint Paul, forbid only bishops and deacons from being simultaneously in a married state with more than one woman . . .
First Timothy 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,
First Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well.
Titus 1:5 This is why I left you in Crete, that you might amend what was defective, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you,
6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.
7 For a bishop, as God's steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, upright, holy, and self-controlled;
9 he must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it.
. . . ( thus the understanding that for non-clergy non-church-officials lay-person congregants what was (and yet still is!) allowable (though admittedly perhaps rare and maybe inconvenient for sloganizing with not 'One Man, One Woman' but instead: 'One Husband, Multiple Concubines') . . .
. . . and because of the plethora of magazine pics and videos porn and masseuse/escort prostitutes readily available (particularly here across America now in the early 21st century), especially on Backpage and Friendfinder internet and advertised on TV and in phone books and metro tabloids . . .
. . . and because many women have recurrent and sometimes extended diverse handicaps, maladies, sickness, disabilities, monthly menstrual prohibitions, increasing disinterest in doing sex and/or certain types of sexual behavior such as performing fellatio, frustrated with the previous-masturbation-exacerbated erectile-dysfunction limpid-and-flaccid impotence of particularly older men . . .
. . . and because laws against fornication have been overturned and purged so that many young people freely cohabitate together in sexual immorality with completely immunity . . .
. . . and because of adversarial and malicious chauvinism and the non-cooperative spirit of rebellious and defiant feminist sexism of capriciously-frigid sadistic girls and women tyrannizing with rampant imposition of out-of-place, non-restricted, and sexually-harassing non-solicited female-human mopheadedness and naked-armed sleeveslessness and nude-legged slackslessness and exposing parts of bare female feet with soxless flipflops and sandals (especially during warmer weather) in practically every place males go to . . .
. . . and because the national situation has become so degraded that homosexual sodomy unions in certain states of the Union are accepted by all levels of government . . .
. . . what is desperately needed is an efficient and discreet catalyst offering the opportunity for decently-attired younger Christian women past puberty (aged 15 to 35 years old) to become available for acquisition and deployment as permanent-marital-relationship concubines to already-married Christian men (past puberty, age 16 to 76+) seeking an additional, non-State-registered, common-law-concubine spouse for permanent marital relationship with such.
Such, under present American law, is not to be considered "polygamy," because any such concubine here in America now in 2014 and beyond would legally still be regarded as a 'Single' in terms of government identification and registration pertaining to such financially-related phenomena as Social Security, the IRS, and so forth.
That does not mean that a non-government-sponsored Christian marriage ceremony with choice Christian witnesses cannot take place between a genuinely-Christian older man and his young-adult authentically-Christian concubine. It does require, however, that no State Marriage License be involved nor signed, as was the case during the 18th, 19th, and early part of the 20th century in the United States.
Currently, of course, an Arab or African sheik or chief bringing his harem of wives into this country is not required by American law to desert, disown, nor divorce any of those women in his privately-owned marital flock.
Perhaps one of the best ways for an older already-happily-married man to somewhat-secretly solicit a targeted personal-vehicle-owning, specific-local church-attending, and perhaps yet-available young Christian woman who has been under his casual surveillance is . . .well . . . .
First Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
6 I say this by way of concession, not of command.
7 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
8 To non-married and widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.
9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband
11 but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband -- and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
Purchase of, then consistently wearing (when in public), a "friendship" or "purity" ring on the 4th finger of the left hand of the concubine-to-be is optional and perhaps recommended so she is not solicited by any other man.
What is alluded to in . . .
Genesis 26:6 So Isaac lived in Gerar.
7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister"; for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah"; because she was beautiful to look upon.
8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.
9 So Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Hey, she is your wife; how then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death."
. . . and:
Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
. . . and:
Judges 21:19 So they said, "Hey, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."
20 And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
21 and watch; if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22 And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'"
23 And the Benjaminites did so, and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off; then they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the towns, and dwelt in them.
. . . and:
Song of Solomon 1:2 Oh that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,
4:16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
7:7 You are stately [ have good posture? ] as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
7:8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
8:1 Oh that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.
. . . and:
Ezekiel 16:36 Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the [abortion-homicide? ] blood of your children that you gave to them,
16:37 therefore, hey, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
23:3 they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin nipples squeezed.
23:20 and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
. . . and more after the couple has mutually signed both copies of a concubinal mate certificate can discreetly (and inexpensively!) occur within some remote-enough latchable outdoor biffy or even a lockable unisex family restroom within a church or shopping center, inside a windowless van, secluded storage unit, etc.
There are many factors involved in making onesself available as a concubine candidate, actually becoming a concubine, searching for a suitable concubine to acquire and possess, and actually soliciting and accepting a teen-or-older eligible as one's privately-owned, chaste-and-faithful, personal concubine.
One of those things to take into consideration is parental reaction, or that of brothers and sisters and other kinfolk who might initially misunderstand and somewhat persecute the concubine and her marital male partner they have no ownership of and no legal right to stalk, harass, detain, nor report to law-enforcement officers. There is also the possibility of experiencing disdain of accusatory employers and friends concocting questionable-reputation gossip and prejudicially initiating disassociative segregation, and so on. Another thing is potential production and management of birthed children relating to identification, schooling, and relation of those children to the State and its social-worker agencies.
However, it is not unheard of nowadays for children to reside in one-parent homes, such as those wherein a widow or widower resides, or a non-remarried divorced parent. Frequently, even welfare benefits for housing and food are given to such people.
It is also not unusual for particularly a cohabitational woman not legally married to some man to continue to identify herself with her maiden name, and even for a divorced woman to resort back to her maiden name, or have a legally-registered hyphenated last name or non-registered nickname or alias. Thus, a concubine can identify herself with her original first name, her not-legally-married husband's name as her middle name, and her original maiden last name . . . and tell the State to regard her as a 'single' person "in a complicated permanent relationship."
A concubine is not an adulterizing nor fornicating "mistress," nor a prostitute nor whore nor slut nor harlot. She is not "having an affair" but is instead is respectably forever cemented into in a lower-status-than-legal-wife permanent marital relationship with an honorable already-happily-married-with-someone-else man, who might or might not convey or disclose (as much as possible) to his primary wife the existence of his possibly-covert concubine.
Such certainly is preferable to secretly adulterizing or fornicating or sodomizing or funding masseuse/escort prostitutes, or lusting at covertly-obtained-and-retained pornography of all types. And I won't even further consider same-gender pseudo-"marriage" lust-not-love homosodomizing of homoqueers.
One wonders why it was necessary for our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ to have been born of a genuine virgin woman rather than through the typical man-with-woman sexual-connection process. Along those lines, one would wonder why is was necessary for an angel to relay that predicted info of a virgin birth to Mary, why Mary apparently did not relay that info to Joseph, and why it was necessary for an angel to relay the info directly to Joseph.
The proof text of a virgin young woman giving birth to Jesus is found in Matthew 1:23 in practically every major Bible translation:
Matthew 1:23 Hey, a virgin [Gr. parthenos] shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel" (which means, God with us).
Should concubines (secondary-status wife-equivalents not considered "mistresses" nor prostitutes nor harlots, but nevertheless are common-law married without being registered as married to State officials) have weddings? Should they wear gold marriage rings on the 4th fingers of their left hands? Should they privately admit informally to friends and neighbors (though not government bureaucrats) that they are married without having nor having acquired nor applied for State marriage licenses or similar government registration nor declaring such on IRS Form 1040? What should the inlaws and employers of both common-law-married husbands and concubines think, and what should they and should they not inform and respond to government officials? Are children of such bound by police and social-worker child protection? What about offspring inheritances possibly contested in government courts? What should be the last names of offspring produced by common-law couples? Will family albums show multiple partners? How did polygamous Old-Testament patriarchs and their harems work that all out? How do polygamous islamic Saudi sheiks with harems and muslim African tribal leaders legally work that all out presently?
WILL 'Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell'-repealed homoperverts succeed in global redefinition of marriage?
Genesis 12:11 When [Abram] was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful to view and consider;
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."
14 When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels.
17 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."
Genesis 20:1 From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he traveled in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Hey, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife."
4 Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said, "Lord, will You slay an innocent people?
5 Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."
6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
7 Now then restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours."
8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?"
11 Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
12 Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
13 And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
15 And Abimelech said, "Hey, my land is before you; reside where it pleases you."
16 To Sarah he said, "Hey, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your vindication in the eyes of all who are with you; and before every one you are righted."
17 Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
18 For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 26:6 So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister"; for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah"; because she was fair to look upon.
8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.
9 So Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, she is your wife; how then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death."
The Old Testament is full of references of patriarchs engaging in non-God-condemned legitimate polygamy (not considered "bigamy" either then nor now):
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 32:22 The same night [Jacob] arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,
16 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,
17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
First Samuel 1:2 He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
First Samuel 30:5 David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
First Samuel 30:18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
First Chronicles 4:5 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah;
Second Chronicales 24:3 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
They, with their harems of wives and concubines, were compliant with:
Malachi 2:14 You ask, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness to the covenant between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Malachi 2:14 Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.
First Timothy 5:8 If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than a disbeliever.
But, one wonders...when Sarai gave her maid Hagar to her husband Abram (Genesis chapter 16)...if Abram really desired Hagar or erotically wanted to have sex with her.
One wonders if Jacob actually wanted his additional wife Leah (who bore Christ's ancestral parents Levi and Judah according to Genesis 29:31-35) when he had instead desire Rachel but was tricked by father-in-law Laban. One continues to wonder if Jacob even erotically desired to have sex with the two maids of Rachel and Leah.
The sexual skeleton in the Christ-ancestral closet concerning Tamar having illegitimate sex with her father-in-law Judah was recorded in Genesis 38:1-30.
somewhat contrary to:
Leviticus 18:15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Samson consorted with a harlot in Gaza and with Philistine masseuses:
Judges 16:1 Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went in to her.
2 The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."
3 But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.
4 After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Christ-ancester Ruth the Moabitess was previously married before she married Boaz:
Ruth 1:1 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
2 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
3 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.
4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years;
5 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband.
Then, there was David who had adulterous sex with the adulterous wife of Uriah the Hittite (Bathsheba) and thereafter set up Uriah for murder.
Solomon's many wives and concubines turned his heart to compromising with foreign idols
First Kings 11:4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Hosea married a prostitute, then it seems had another live-in woman besides (see Hosea chapters 1 through 3):
Hosea 3:1 And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the LORD loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."
2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
3 And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."
Is it any wonder, with all this male-human sex drive, that -- duressed besieged with hypocritical religious heretics (with the anti-marriage pseudo-bible mistranslations) and prudes and insubordinately non-submissive sexist-feminists girlfriends and wives and exhibitionists -- red-blooded men crave copious all-the-way erotica but lamentably, impatiently, and faithlessly resort to exchange-massage masseuses, escorts, girlie magazines and movies, plus internet porn pix and vids?
Or, if we meet former masseuses or escorts with whom we have had "one-night-stand" sex-oriented exchange-massage episodes of momentarily complete or partial fornication in the near or distant past, would we be tempted at the behest of either them or ourselves to "slip in one more for old time's sake" regardless of our present and probably-different marital status compared to the state we were formerly in?
Jeremiah 3:1 If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the LORD.
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named [suggested] among you, as is fitting among saints.
I wonder if all what all those wives and concubines thought about each other, how they communicated with or avoided, shared or did not share amongst themselves, if they went shopping together, were jealous for the affections of their shared husbands. Were they on a variable-rate schedule having to set appointments for sex with their shared husbands? Were there any cancellations due to menstual periods, illness, headache, vacation with inlaw relatives?
How did the patriarchs select which wives and concubines to acquire? We're there preliminary Doctrine-Qualification forms to fill out, Mate-Selection Forms, and Concubine-Registration Forms?
Consider the recent case of the Judge, Nathan, Vicki, and Christine:
JUDGE: Nathan, Vicki, and Christine, you all realize that we would be setting a controversial precedent rendering the current anti-bigamy law of Montana unconstitutional in its present feminist-oriented non-multiple-female-spouses-for-men miswording, which might be challenged with appeal by the State of Montana in a higher circuit court?
NATHAN & VICKI & CHRISTINE (in unison): We do, your honor.
JUDGE: If this was a case of allowing a divorce-inclined threesome homosexual relationship of some type, I would dismiss the case without prejudice.
On that subject, it is lamentable that the Tyndale article is complicit with the demonically-revisionist weaselword terminology of homosexuals seeking to semantically justify themselves using the word "gay" instead of what words homosexuals should actually be described with, which is both "effeminate" and "sodomites" - in accord with the New-Testament Greek-Text words malakoi and arsenokoitai recorded in Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians chapter 6 verse 9 in the New Testament of the Judeo-Christian Holy Bible -- the English equivalent of both New-Testament words found in a combination of the King James Version and the New King James Version renditions.
Also, what needs to be pointed out is that the phrase "same-sex marriage" is an absurd and incorrect secular-media-buzzword expression, and should be replaced with the phrase: "same-gender homo-sodomy unions licensing" for vital clarification.
Judeo-Christian Scripture euphemistically refers to homosexuals as "dogs" and obviously dogs cannot marry even though they can sniff each other's rear ends. And there is not even one case of any named persons throughout the entire Bible engaged in a homosexual, or same-gender, erotic relationship - either one of intention or actual practice. The intense love which David had for Jonathan, "surpassing the love of women," was merely one of brotherly-love philios comradery and not sensuous-passion eros.
Speaking of aforementioned Scripture thankfully and appropriately alluded to in this court setting, within acceptable parameters of the Non-Establishment and Non-Prohibition of Religion Clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, according to that significant founding-fathers-allowed-and-yet-legitimate influential document called the Judeo-Christian Holy Bible, within which is an Old Testament and New Testament, which has been and yet is the basis for much of our civil law in the United States and all territories thereof, there is an allowance in the Torah of the Pentateuch for a man having two wives, which was allowed without reprimand from God and practiced in the cases of Abraham with Sarah and Hagar, Jacob with Leah and Rachel and their two maids by whom Israel had Twelve-Tribes offspring, Gideon with his multiple wives, Elkanah having wives Hannah and Penuel, David with his many wives and concubines, Solomon with even more wives and concubines, who stated (according to the Revised Standard Version) in his Spirit-inspired book Ecclesiastes that he obtained "many concubines, man's delight," and similar harem-type polygamy which was practiced by others in that Old Testament.
Moreover, it is noteworthy that Spirit-inspired Saint Paul prohibited heterosexual polygamy only for bishops and deacons, however they are defined and in what context, in his First New Testament epistle to Timothy.
In addition, it is getting to be rather widespread public knowledge that sharia law of Islam, which many muslims adhere to throughout America, allows a man to legally have more than one female spouse, as is legally practiced in many Middle Eastern and other countries concordant with their religious texts.
Admirable it is, Nathan and Vicki and Christine, that you all desire to participate in a marital arrangement instead one of fornication, adultery, or prostitution in a non-marital cohabitational setting.
It is not this court's responsibility, in this case, to determine the viability of whether or not your threesome marriage arrangement will be in your immediate and ultimate best interests. Nor is it this court's duty to determine any hidden or other motivations any of you have for asking the court's approval for what you have petitioned.
I would suggest, Nathan, that if you and Christine do apply for a marriage license and obtain one, that - for the sake of avoiding confusion by and entanglement with the IRS pertaining to Marital Status designation on Form 1040, and avoiding confusion pertaining to legal spouse designation request by Social Security - that you declare Vicki, whom you have been married to first, as your primary wife, and thus any and all marital benefits would only be available to you in relation to Vicki and Vicki in relation to you, and not Christine.
Therefore, it is the verdict of this court that you and Christine be allowed to obtain a legal marriage license and thus be legally considered permanently married with each other, with Christine regarded as your additional but second-class and non-equal-in-status-to-Vicki wife.
As I stated, any and all marital benefits are only available to you in relation to Vicki and Vicki in relation to you, and not Christine.
This ruling can be appealed to a higher court if any of you so wish.
Judgement is hereby rendered. Case closed.
Some say that prostitution is [allegedly] "the world's oldest profession."
Actually, it is neither a "profession" nor is it the first perversion to ever occur.
That instead was murder (no thanks to Cain who spitefully and illegitimately killed Abel).
Fascinating it is that the LORD throughout the entirety of His HOLY BIBLE did not have His Holy Spirit inspire his generally-godly human authors to call multiple-wife/concubine harem-type polygamy either a crime or a sin.
Accusations have gone viral concerning Speaker Gingrich, that he "cheated on his [cancer-infected/non-cooperative] wives" and also experienced some oral-sex shenanigans from female associates.
Whether or not Newt utilized escort and/or masseuse harlots in his younger years is not known, and to many (who roundly condemned CNN-interrogator John King for publicly asking Newt about related matters), such delving into one's "personal" sexual-impropriety/excesses past [though directed to one intending to become head honcho within our globally-interdependent society] is flagrantly irrelevant.
I would guess that most men . . . and women, for that matter - be they saints or sinners overall - have indulged in and committed various types and degrees of illicit heterosexual contact (and some even have experienced woman-replacement effeminate-sodomite exhibitionism).
Scripture itself does contain rather specific accounts of the fornication or adultery wickedness (note that I did not use the word: "affairs") of messianic patriarchs Judah, David, etc. -- for whatever purpose was and is served by such limited-explicitness Holy-Writ accounts.
One wonders whether publicly confessing what sexual errors one has done in their past is of any value.
Does it edify listeners or readers? Could such lurid exposee get the confessor in trouble with civil law(s) - especially those with no Statute of Limitations? Would revealing such sordidity actually turn out to be a promotional advertisement for others to imitate and similarly engage in sensually-but-extramaritally consorting with cute teen or slightly-older young-adult whores (under the illusion that their questionably-regretted 'tares' will simply be burned up - courtesy of the faith-not-works "grace of God" - and thus discounted on Judgment Day . . . leaving the admittedly-good 'wheat' to be eternally rewarded in Heaven)?
ARE we all truly sorry - for whatever porn we have lusted over, whatever immodest attire we have misdressed with during summertime and so have incited lewd recourse with . . . sorry - for whatever purportedly "harmless" and "normal" pre-marital erotic handholding, first-date cheek-or-lip kissing, hugging, gymnastic arms/legs/feet-baring, heterosexual swimsuit suntan-oil massaging, and other actions engaged in?
WOULD we all commit (and NOT perform) the same lustful thoughts and misbehavior all over again if we did not know what we know now in retrospect?
The biological-passion-incepted sexual desires of teens and especially young adults in their 20s cannot and must not be ignored, sublimated, nor denied. To not prepare for marriage during the teens, and to postpone marriage by substitutionary self-aggrandizement in academia, is a recipe for deprived recourse into the sexual wasteland of delusionary and deviant mirage. When the Creator gave humankind their first command to "Multiply and fill the earth," (Genesis 1:28,
Genesis 9:1,7) that command to fuck and procreate was not merely a prediction but ingraining an immutable instinct to have sex - no matter what:
Genesis 38:14 . . . [Tamar] put off her widow's garments, and put on a [prostitute's] veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
Ruth 1:12 Turn back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,
Ruth 1:13 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone forth against me."
Song 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame of the LORD.
We "walk by faith, not by sight" - or at least should.
And a non-realistic presumption of perpetual perfect abstinence should be thoroughly and obviously be totally abolished by the presence of the sexually-oriented Song of Solomon in the Old Testament, to be taken both figuratively and literally in typical Hebrew-interpretation style.
Song 1:7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?
The accumulated and residual erotic effects of luridity - like overdoses of radioactivity - eventually result in moral collapse followed by rebooted renewal on the grounds of what Christ did for us on His cross.
But, the incessant, relentless and never-ending assaultive influx and imposition of senselessly-and-needlessly-flaunted loose long hair, naked sleevesless arms, nude legs in shortened skirts and shorts, bare or soxless feet under flipflop sandals, and worse, is repeated over and over and over until that filthy depository of ever-compounding demonic aggression and dire effects conclude with termination and repose of mercilessly-attacked and murderously-destroyed bodies in local cemeteries.
Song 2:15 Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom."
First Timothy 2:8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in decent apparel, not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
10 but by good works, as befits women who profess religion.
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with sobriety.
Oh, to see the future and correspondingly adjust proposed plans ahead of time! But, "what's done is done" and there is no erasing nor deleting nor escaping back into the past to change it. Time machines are an absurd, anti-Biblical, and impossible figment of insane wishful hallucination, being that the only time we can change is the present and the only time we can prepare for is the future.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no prophecy the people throw off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
At least, in view of God's Bible, we Christians commendably do regret our non-asked-for sins of ignorance and faithlessness we did under pressure from the demented. Those who despise the authority and sovereignty of the Holy Father do not have such remorse, in their despicable arrogant defiance and impudent impenitence.
The sexually-oriented failures and shortcomings of genuine Christians - in reality - come about as a result of sinful outside duress from the original-sin environment, Satan, demons, and devilish humans surrounding him or her, comprised of godlessly-unscriptural anti-Scriptural heretics, immodest and porno enticers inciting others to sin, and more.
Proverbs13:20 He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Underneath it all, authentic "born-anew" Christians do not have a maliciously-disobedient mindset to dress immodestly (especially during warm days) to thoughtlessly and selfishly cause hapless male victims to stumble into non-solicited premature erotic awakening and resultant deviancies outside of marriage. For a bonafide Christian, he (or she) wants to do things God's way . . . it's "no water off their back" to so comply.
Habakkuk 1:4 So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.
Genesis 4:23 Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken to what I say: I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me."
Genesis 31:17 So Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives on camels;
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon the Hivite,
First Samuel 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.
First Kings 11:3 [Solomon] had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
First Kings 11:4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
First Chronicles 8:8 And Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.
Second Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
Ironic, isn't it? Romney is technically the Mormon with a church reputation of deep involvement with polygamy throughout American history . . while thrice-married Gingrich is the one who seems to have, in effect, taken the multi-wife [NOT multi-masseuse/escort-harlot] harem path.
Ecclesiastes 2:8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.
When it comes right down to it, advocacy for marriage has to be extremely strong and honored . . .and not pooh-poohed by bastards and bitches who disdain a bachelor or bachelorette "finally tying the knot" and thus "getting stuck into permanent boring slavery with the same old soon-ugly person."
Such a damnable anti-marriage attitude is even (and especially!) reflected in apostate pseudo-"bible" [mis]-translations such as the NIV and others . . . mis-stating that: "it is good for a man to not marry" [or: . . . remain celibate . . . or . . .have nothing to do with women . . .] in their mis-rendering of First Corinthians 7:1 and even their accursed context-takes-precedence-over-actual-Greek-word substituting the wrong words: 'younger widows' in place of the correct words: 'younger women' in their misrepresetation of First Timothy 5:14 -- no matter what doctrines-of-demons irrationalizations they satanically concoct and try to self-justify their heretical wrong-headedness with.
First Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But, to avoid fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
3 Let the husband give to the wife proper affection, and likewise the wife also to the husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have power over his own body, but the wife.
5 Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your lack of self-control.
6 But I speak this by permission, not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one of one type and one of another.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women [Gr. ne(o)teras] (NOT "widows," Gr. ch(e)ras) marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.
First Timothy 5:15 For some have already strayed after Satan.
Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
WHY does support to get and stay married have to be so forcefully strong and persistent?
Because prostitution is so DARN close to being "the name of the game" IF marriage is NOT promoted and funded with insistence, vigor, and generosity.
Admittedly and understandably, even pragmatic humanists realize that when homosexuality, abortion, porn, evolution, and even fornication and adultery are carried out and continued to their final outcome, extinction against the human species is the inevitable consequence.
Romans 6:21 But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.
Even though such vices are combined to various degrees and extents with beneficial and offspring-perpetuating counterparts, the resultant pollution irreparably and increasingly disables God-intended complete fulfilment, and instead is at least woefully disappointing and nonfulfilling and at worst diabolically lethal and insidiously devastating.
Haggai 1:6 You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.M
Consider the apparent and short-sighted advantages of seeking erotic pleasure in porn and masseuse or escort prostitutes.
Most porn photos of websites-residing teen, slightly-younger, and particularly nicely-developed slightly-older human females (with exquisitely-beautiful faces and well-proportioned slender/shapely figures) are sharp-resolution true-color masterpieces of megapixel photography . . easily sharpened even further to striking crystal clarity with simple and inexpensive freely-downloadable photo-editing software.
Proverbs 6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes
Second Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
The frozen-image(s) [in eventually-boring, death-like photographic motionless, and unimaginative rote-repetition of doing the exact same thing every time without any innovative variety within the videoclips] portraying naked beauties are, for the normal red-blooded man, visually sufficient enough to self-sodomizingly masturbate to because the intensive gazer and gawkers virtually place themselves in imaginary close proximity with phenomenal-pulchritude desirables who never get a headache; are never insubordinately non-submissive nor frigidly feminist-sexist; domestically stay at home (on the computer hard drive or CD or flashdrive); do not wander around anywhere where their solitary imaginary virtual husband male viewer would worry about them getting him into trouble or seducing other men; do not get sick and causes medical expenses; do not spend paycheck money or get their imaginary virtual husband into any debt; do not give their imaginary virtual husband any type of VD; cannot get incoveniently and expensively pregnant; produce no snotty shrieking kids; is not (locked into the .jpg or .mpg or .wmv files they are) unfaithful with other men pictorally; are always ready to exhibit themselves under the male viewer's whims and control and discretion, and can be quietly reserved and hidden away in relaxing and worry-free absence of harassment, legal complaints to cops and courts, in reputation-protecting storage on covert hard drives, CD ROMs, or flashdrives.
Luke 16:8 The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
Masseuse and escort harlots (accessible from Yellow Pages or Google/Yahoo/Dogpile searchword queries) closely resemble some of the best aspects of marriage:
(1) They seem to domestically "stay at home" inside their massage parlors and by phone contact.
[ Titus 2:3 Bid the older women likewise to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good,
Titus 2:4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Titus 2:5 to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited. ]
(2) They are always available to phone or visit in person, and with the assumed [or instead is it presumed?] intention of having sex.
First Corinthians 7:3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a while, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
(3) They are previously investigated and then perhaps expected to not be vice-cop decoys [as on MSNBC's "Dateline: To Catch a Predator"], but instead sincerely there to give each incoming substitute-husband male a
fair deal.
(4) They might not require Driver's-License I.D. to be shown, so reputation-preserving anonymity of both male and female involved probably can be maintained.
(5) They might not require use of inconvenient, messy/yucky, erotic-feelings-suppressing anti-sperm-implantation-inside-vagina condoms, and perhaps they themselves have been sterilized or heavy into birth-control contraceptives to avoid getting pregnant [an at-the-time and later, far-reaching disappointment after all that exhaustive extended-duration-for-hopefully-eventual-climax pulsation] -- should the exchange massage go that far.
NOTE: IF condoms are not required, nor are voluntarily used, who knows whose semen could get whoever pregnant and thus initiate the God-commanded responsibility of childbearing and childcare whoever the new parents are? For no-pregnancy is likely - though intense and extended sexual-thrusting effort is made - it's 'No Deposit, No Return' at its worst.
(6) They have passed a physical exam by the Health Department against venereal diseases and AIDS....only at the time of examination, but not thereafter. Like surfing the internet into strange website laden with new and insidious viruses, trojans, and worms against which no presently-available antivirus software can detect nor eradicate, who knows what horrendous and non-curable types of VD and AIDS contamination is deposited and retained by then-infected masseuses or escorts? Certainly it is unfair for an adulterous husband or adulterous wife who is into covert prostitution to transfer such disease to an innocent and non-suspecting spouse.
(7) They express [guilty but shameless] pseudo-eager acceptance of and when their substitute-husband male customer comes in for sex.
[ Song 5:1 I come to my [rented?] garden, my [?] sister, my [?] bride, I gather my [?] myrrh with my [?] spice, I eat my [?] honeycomb with my [?] honey, I drink my [?] wine with my [?] milk [multi-tasking during sex!]. Eat, friends, and drink: drink deeply, lovers! [cunnilingus & fellatio?]
2 I slept, but my heart was awake. Listen! my [?] beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my [?] sister, my [?] love, my [?] dove, my [?] perfect one; for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."
3 I had taken off my clothes, how could I put them on? I had bathed my feet, how could I dirty them?
4 My [?] beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.
5 I arose to open to my [?] beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.
6 I opened to my [?] beloved, but my [?] beloved had turned and gone. [Scardy cat] My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
7 The watchmen [Cops? Accusatory legalistic prudes?] found me, as they went about in the city; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those watchmen of the walls.
8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my [?] beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love. ]
(8) They are sometimes somewhat attractive young women (facially and figurewise) in their early 20s.
[ Song 2:14 Oh my dove, in the clefts of the rock ["Get a room!"], in the covert of the cliff ["Take it home!"], let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is attractive. ]
(9) They are not only in it for money to pay their living expenses and monthly bills, but for sometimes-retaliatory erotic affection they have perhaps lost by divorce from whatever innocent or self-inflicted cause(s).
[ First Timothy 5:8 If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned
the faith and is worse than a disbeliever. ]
(10) Although sometimes managed by male instead of female [pimp] administrators and supervisors, encounters usually begin and continue and end as one-woman-for-one-man-only episodes [but who knows who is secretly photographing who?].
(11) Like with any fast-food restaurant, pre-payment comes before [hopefully-actually-done] service. They expect, like is to be expected from any good substitute husband, to be provided (with anywhere from a financially-depleting $75 on up to $300) for each fornication or adultery sex session.
(12) Like any conscientious substitute wife, they want the body of their substitute husband to be showered clean before sex.
Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ]
(13) They are submisively willing to do exotic-to-kinky forms of sexual connection (depending upon the amount of money
required and given) such as oral-sex fellatio, rectal insertion, bondage, etc. - although there are some things harlots simply will not do (such as too-painful-memories gentle affectionate tongueing and tender lips-kissing).
[ Song 4:16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my
beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits. ["My garden? Whose garden? ]
Ephesians 5:24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to
their husbands. ]
(14) They do not complain about headaches, are never unavailable because of menstual periods, and are never ill [when on duty].
(15) There are no inlaws to be questioned nor harassed by.
[ Matthew 19:5 . . . For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Mark 10:7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife
First Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
Ephesians 5:31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." ]
(16) They (like in any for-monetary-profit business dealings) express bitter-sweet desire for the substitute husband to come back for more.
Unfortunately (in one sense), there are downsides to "engagement" with above-mentioned licentuousness and lascivious immorality.
For one thing, neither the masseuse or escort - nor her male customer - can have that inner confidence, peace, and pleasure that they both truly belong to and can be fully devoted to each other, thus not able to give and get the best pleasure for and from each other with or without tediously-laborious extended-duration excessively-wearisome penis-in-vagina thrusting devoid of quick-enough female response and climax, then perhaps culminating in both embarrassing and messy squirting of semen outside the body (and elsewhere on whatever cannot easily be washed), instead of nested deep instead the vagina where it should be:
Genesis 38:9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.
Genesis 38:10 And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him also.
Ezekiel 4:14 Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! Hey, I have never defiled myself; from my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has foul flesh come into my mouth."
Ezekiel 4:15 Then He said to me, "See, I will let you have cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread."
. . . frequently done abnormally at last by the male manipulatively self-sodomizing himself to climactic ejaculation to avoid sperm-inside-of-vagina pregnancy possibility or to show off his virility.
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
Deuteronomy 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.
. . . knowing that the type of situation they are in involves many partners [not to mention children, parents, pastors or priests, other family relatives (and more) who would seriously object if they knew the immorality which was secretly going on] . . . with Divine-like, possibly-fatal jealousy [relating to defiling one who is owned but then used by another] looming as a terrifying retributional punishment.
Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
Proverbs 6:35 He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.
Song 8:12 My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
First Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,
4 each one of you to know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor
5 not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God,
6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you and testified.
Ezekiel 16:32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:40 They shall bring up a host against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swor>ds.
Ezekiel 23:17 And [her customers] came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from [other whores]
19 Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot [elsewhere]
20 and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when [your customers] massaged your young breasts because of your
nipples.
22 Therefore, [harlot], thus says the Lord God: "Hey, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
24 And they shall come against you from [suddenly out of nowhere, it seems]; they shall set themselves against you on every side with [fines, court adjudication, and jailtime], and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
25 And I will direct my indignation against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall [non-abusively] cut
off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by [non-arsonist] fire.
26 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fine jewels.
27 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of [wherever]; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to [your customers] nor remember them any more."
28 For thus says the Lord God: "Hey, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust;
29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your harlotry
30 have brought this upon you, because you played the harlot with the nations, and polluted yourself with their [media-advertising idols].
32 Thus says the Lord God: "You shall . . . be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;
33 you will be filled with [narcotics-addicted] drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, is the cup of your [harlot associates]
34 you shall drink it and drain it out, and pluck out your hair, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken," says the Lord God.
35 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and thrown me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and harlotry."
36 The Lord said to me: "Son of man, will you judge . . . ? Then declare to them their abominable works.
40 They even sent for men to come from far, to whom a [media-publicity] messenger was sent, and wow, they came. For them you bathed yourself, adorned your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;
41 you sat upon a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
42 The sound of a carefree crowd was with her; and with men of the common sort drunkards were brought from the desert; and they put bracelets upon the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43 Then I said, "Do not men now commit adultery when they practice harlotry with her?
44 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to . . . to commit lewdness.
45 But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed [abortion-homicide] blood; because they are adulteresses, and [abortion-murder] blood is upon their hands."
46 For thus says the Lord God: "Bring up a host against them, and make them an object of terror and a spoil.
47 And the host shall stone them and rip them apart them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.
48 Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
49 And your lewdness shall be requited upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful [media-advertising] idolatry; and you shall know that I am the Lord God."
Second, prostitution is illegal in most states, and resulting arrest, financially-depleting fines, court appearances, adverse media publicity, plus occupational and other reputational damage amongst friends, employers and employees, relatives, etc. can be excruciatingly devastating.
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a prostitute of the sons of Israel.
Third, Scripture is quite clear that - whether done only one time or done repeatedly - fornicators and adulterers will go to Hell . . whatever the self-justifying "gospel" and "saving grace" excuses fabricated for self-absolved pseudo-atonement. Even if the penitent "get away with it" (as David did with Bathsheba), embarrassing and crippling consequences can be significant and extensive in more ways than one.
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
First Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the non-righteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicator, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
First Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
First Corinthians 10:8 Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Ephesians 5:5 Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man [or woman], or one who is covetous (that is, a [porno] idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
It thus behooves all of us who respect the Lord's Word and will, including those of us who have often missed the mark and fallen short, to become motivationally renewed with such reminders and admonitions as:
Job 31:1 I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
2 What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?
3 Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
4 Does not He see my ways, and number all my steps?
5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has sped toward deceit;
6 (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
7 if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;
8 then let me plant, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.
9 If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;
10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
11 For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
12 for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.
Psalm 101:3 I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not
cleave to me.
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Revelation 22:15 Outside are the [homogay/effeminate & sodomite] dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood.
Though it is not new, older folk more familiar with what they learned way back in regularly-attended Sunday School, who grew up in neighborhoods where the Bible and far-reaching beneficial influences thereof were less suppressed and ridiculed and even blasphemed than God's Word is nowadays (not only in public schools but in network media - even in the respectful Leave It To Beaver community-decency culture of the 50s) had a somewhat more enlightened conscience which regarded as taboo and forbidden what is currently called "threesomes" -- referring not to multiple-wife harems of some Old-Testament-patriarchs-reminiscent sheik-like chiefs, but instead to "wife-swapping" - where the woman (either non-married or married) has more than one male sexual partner more or less simultaneously with no shame nor guilty regrets involved.
Such perversion is, of course, nothing new under the sun (in view of similar times-past confusion-causing harlotry and prostitution involving questionable identities and responsibilities concerning paternal lawsuits), but many younger people now in 2013 have gotten so far away from Biblical directives that their casual-nudity-display, contraceptively-poisoned, aborticide-eager minds are as primitive and uncivilized as barbarians of distant lands, and more often than not exacerbated by especially-during-warm-weather unrestrained display of nakedness concerning body parts which should be modestly covered outside the marriage bed but instead openly flaunted in our increasingly hedonistic and irreligious/anti-religion/cultic-religions society here in America and Europe.
For the sake of America's founding fathers and the Judeo-Christian morality they built this country on, and the respected and noble historical heritage of their Old-West bonnets-wearing, scarved, and chignoned offspring and progenie down through the 1800s up to the beginning of the 1900s, yours truly will remind everyone who reads this what Scripture has to say about a woman deviantly desiring and erotically connecting with more than one male-human partner who she would in no way "love" but rather lust with (and actually: against) . . . and we're not talking only about a vagina or rectum stuffed with two penises, nor one of each stuck into both of her lower-unit orifices and/or mouth.
Some godless deviates have suggested that a pretty woman "should not selfishly deprive other men from also sharing her beautiful body," and perhaps have even misapplied some of the following Scripture verses (as Bible-verse-quoting Satan did against Christ when tempting Him in the desert):
Luke 3:11 And He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise."
Romans 15:27 . . . they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if the nations have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
First Corinthians 9:12 If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
First Corinthians 9:13 Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?
Galatians 6:6 Let him who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches.
First Thessalonians 2:8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.
Holy Writ gives guidance as to at what age, if any, naked "baby?" brothers should stop taking baths with their naked "baby?" sisters, plus if, then when, naked daughters should stop showering and/or sleeping with their nude daddys and naked sons should stop showering and/or sleeping with their nude mommys, what should be the cut-off age of legality for porn models (i.e. age 18+?), and when Social Security checks should begin arriving to qualifying "senior citizens:"
Genesis 9:20 Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;
21 and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,
25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."
26 He also said, "Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."
27 God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
34 And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Hey, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
Leviticus 18:7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.
Leviticus 27:1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 Say to the people of Israel, "When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,
3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him."
Numbers 5:11 And the LORD said to Moses,
12 Say to the people of Israel, "If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,
13 if a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act;
14 and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself;
15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a cereal offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD;
17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.
18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse."
First Kings 1:1 Now King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
2 Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king, and be his nurse; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm." [ Better than a Holmes space heater! ]
3 So they sought for a beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4 The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
15 So Bathsheba went to the king into his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king). [ Wasn't Bathsheba warm enough to be Davy's space-heater equivalent? ]
Song 8:8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?
Ezekiel 16:7 . . . And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Mark 5:42 And immediately the girl got up and walked (she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.
Way back during Creation Week, which literal-record NON-myth was even referred to by both Hosea and Paul in:
Hosea 6:7 But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Luke 3:38 . . . the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Romans 5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
First Timothy 2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
First Timothy 2:14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
. . . the Creator God logically established a non-homosexual, mutually-nude, heterosexual, marital relationship as the standard and norm for non-extinction-perpetuated human survival of the species:
Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Monogamy was (by limited-population default) the norm at the time, being multiple women were not yet available for the later-time harems of godly-and-not-pervert Abraham, Jacob/Israel, Gideon, David, Solomon, etc. whom the LORD never condemned for their multiple-wife/concubine acquisitions and retentions.
If, by the phrase "Love Triangle," what is referred to is the Lord Jesus Christ (let alone one's pet dog or cat) being the third-party person observing, involved with, and sharing the most intimate mutual-naked sexual connections of a husband with his wife, one of his wives or concubine(s), there is nothing amiss with such a "threesome" arrangement.
However, no where in the entirety of Scripture is either homosexual or multiple-male sexual partners for individual women suggested as a legitimate option, and - in fact - the very opposite is true:
Exodus 22:16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife.
Leviticus 18:20 And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
Leviticus 19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.
Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
Leviticus 21:7 [Priests] shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.
21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,
16 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,
17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
Second Samuel 13:14 But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
13:15 Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up, be gone."
13:16 But she said to him, "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.
13:17 He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."
13:18 Now she was wearing a full-length gown with long sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king traditionally dressed. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
Proverbs 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
Song of Solomon 1:6 Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!
Song of Solomon 7:13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, my beloved.
Song of Solomon 8:12 My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.
4 Our Redeemer: the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
7 You said, "I shall be mistress for ever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
8 Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children":
9 These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.
10 You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
11 But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.
12 Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror.
13 You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons predict what shall befall you.
14 Hey, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
15 Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one to save you.
Isaiah 57:3 But you, draw near here, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jeremiah 2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
Jeremiah 3:1 "If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me?" says the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
30 "How lovesick is your heart," says the Lord GOD, "seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot;
31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.
32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
33 Men give gifts to all harlots; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries.
34 So you were different from other women in your harlotries: none solicited you to play the harlot; and you gave hire, while no hire was given to you; therefore you were different."
35 Wherefore, harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
37 therefore, hey, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They shall bring up a host against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords."
Ezekiel 33:26 You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?
Hosea 3:3 And I said to her, "You must stay mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."
Matthew 19:3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested Him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 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'?
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man pull apart."
7 They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?"
8 He said to them, "For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery."
10 The disciples said to Him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not necessary to marry."
11 But He said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
12 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."
Romans 7:2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law regarding the husband.
First Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
First Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Second Corinthians 11:2 I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
First Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger-women widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,
First Timothy 5:12 and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.
Among the nude-women websites on the internet, there is an in-constant-flux group of them which portray usually-consentual, seemingly non-consentual (but perhaps sometimes truly non-consentual rape-like) youngthroats in sometimes-unusual, imaginative and innovative standing, sitting, lying down, upside-down, suspended, whatever positions of diverse types and degrees of bondage involving ropes, stocks, chains, hooks, or other bondage, slavery confinement or captivity and actions where the captive women appear submissively strained, inconvenienced, struggling to free themselves in pretended or actual non-lethal torture or abuse.
Within many of those gallery-sequenced websites, the "torturer" and the "tortured" appear in at least one photo free and smiling together to prove that the entire slide show pictured was mutually-consentual and not involuntary sexual abuse nor rape.
As a matter of commmon sense civility, of course, the human needs of the one in bondage must be considered so that actual injury or death does not occur. For example, it is dangerous to even temporarily place a ziploc plastic bag over the head of the bound woman. Ropes and other restraints too tight and for too long will cause reddening and constriction of the skin, cutting off circulation and thus damaging (to certain extents) all sorts of body parts. The sometimes-gagged youngthroats with stuffed-up noses need to adequately breathe freely and inevitably need to urinate. Then there is the danger that the "torturer" might suddenly become incapacitated himself and not able to extricate the "tortured" out of her bonds, which could result her helplessly dying in her bondage.
There are always some bondage scenarios which go out of bounds with non-natural bruises, non-natural bleeding, forced and non-wanted/non-expected genital insertions, and sincere but non-complied-with desire to quit and stop - which is actually painful to the youngthroats who might have gotten into more than they thought they would.
Some of these originate in the San Francisco and Oakland area, and others are frequently localized within the general Los Angeles area of California.
Contained within the URLs of only some of which are such letter groups as "bdsm[whatever].com
Scripture verses applicable to such erotic, quasi-erotic, or pseudo-erotic sites are:
Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain and conception in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
Exodus 21:2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
Exodus 21:7 "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Exodus 21:20 "When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.
Exodus 21:21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.
Exodus 21:26 "When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake.
Exodus 21:27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth's sake.
Leviticus 19:20 "If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;
Leviticus 25:39 "And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
Deuteronomy 21:14 Then, if you have no delight in her, you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
Deuteronomy 22:22 "If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:28 "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 23:15 "You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you;
Deuteronomy 24:7 "If a man is found stealing one of his brethren, the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
Second Samuel 13:14 But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
Second Samuel 13:18 Now she was wearing a long robe with full-length sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king traditionally clad. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
Second Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore the long robe with full-length sleeves which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying out loud as she went.
Job 31:1 "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
Psalm 71:4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
Proverbs 11:17 A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Song 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a flame of the LORD.
Isaiah 3:16 The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;
Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
Isaiah 20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47:2 Take the millstones and grind meal, take off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.
Jeremiah 2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
Ezekiel 19:4 The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:9 With hooks they put him in a cage, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 38:4 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords;
Hosea 3:3 And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."
Amos 4:2 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Romans 1:21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
Romans 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Romans 7:3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she is another man's while her husband is alive. But
if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man she is not an adulteress.
First Corinthians 7:21 Were you a slave when called? Never mind. But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.
First Corinthians 12:23 and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
First Corinthians 12:24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
Ephesians 5:24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:33 however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
First Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity;
4 that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor,
5 not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;
6 that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you.
7 For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
First Timothy 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers,
First Timothy 5:2 older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.
First Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger-women widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,
First Timothy 5:12 and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.
First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to
revile us.
First Timothy 6:1 Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be defamed.
Philemon 1:14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.
Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.
First Peter 3:7 Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.
First Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind.
It has been stated in Scripture:
First Corinthians 2:9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of humans conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him."
The converse is also true:
What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of humans conceived, what God has prepared for those who hate Him.
Infection that ravages our bodies because of non-asked-for contagious germs assaulting us from the outside is similar to the substantially-paraphrased scenario mentioned by St Paul in Romans chapter 7 in which the former rule-and-atonement-by-law husband of health dies and the initially-childless-Ruth-and-Abigail-reminiscent widow now belongs to the new libertarian husband of imposed illness (and thus "violates her first pledge" of faithfulness, according to RSV's First Timothy 5:12):
Romans 7:1 Do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law) that the law is binding on a person only during his life?
7:2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.
7:3 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man (as a "black widow" against him also?) she is not an adulteress, (but not imitating the example of Anna the prophetess):
Luke 2:36 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.
Romans 7:4 Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the (first husband who loved you?) through the body of Christ, so that you may (quasi-adulterously?) belong to another (new husband, and thus re-marry against my future advice in First Corinthians 7:39-40?), to Him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.(?)
7:5 While we were living in the body, sinful germs, invading the body, were at work in our members to bear fruit for miserable illness.
7:6 But now we are discharged from infection, immune against that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code of sickness and its unpleasant manifestations, but new Spirited healthy life.
7:7 What then shall we say? That the body is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the body, I should not have known snotting. I should not have known what it is to snot if the body had not said, "It is preferable to not snot."
7:8 But germs, finding opportunity in the body, wrought in me all kinds of snottiness. Apart from the body germs lie dead.
7:9 I was once healthy apart from germs, but when the contagious germs came, infection revived and I got sick;
7:10 the very body which promised life proved to become sick to me.
7:11 For germs, finding opportunity in the body, deceived me and by it ravaged me.
7:12 So the body is holy, and the immune system is holy and just and good.
7:13 Did my immune system which is good, then, bring sickness to me? By no means! It was contageous germs, working infection in me against my body parts which are good, in order that contagious germs might be shown to be contagious germs, and through the body might become devastating plague beyond measure.
7:14 We know that the healthful law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under infected-sickness sin.
7:15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what [health] I want, but I do the very [sick] thing I hate.
7:16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the body is good.
7:17 So then it is no longer I that do it, but germs which reside within me.
7:18 For I know that nothing healthy resides within me, that is, in my infected flesh. I can will what is recuperative, but I cannot do it.
7:19 For I do not do the health I want, but the sickness I do not want is what I do.
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but germs which reside within me.
7:21 So I find it to be a principle that when I want to be healthy, sickness lies close at hand.
7:22 For I delight in the healthful body of God, in my inmost self,
7:23 but I see in my members another intruder causing me to succumb to sickness which is at war with the law of my desire for health and making me captive to the law of infection which resides in my members.
7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God's fit of health with my mind, but with my flesh I temporarily serve the law of infected sickness.
When we read what can safely be described as non-pornographic "sexually-oriented" passages in Scripture, it behooves us to read only and exclusively what the precise given Text actuallystates -- and not errantly nor heretically presume or presuppose what our lamentably but honestly somewhat-erotically-polluted minds add, subtract, concoct, and/or fabricate.
Job 13:7 Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for Him?
Romans 3:4 By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written: "That you be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Romans 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel...
Second Corinthians 4:2 We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
For example, I have read the commentary of one fellow in a nearby Baptist church near where I live who wrote that the monogamous phrase of "husband of one wife" in:
First Timothy 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher...
and:
First Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well...
....to him (and propagandized to others for essentially demonic brainwashing) meant that harem polygamy is forbidden for not only bishops or deacons, but also and mostly means that a man should be faithful in the complete true fidelity to his singular wife.
But the Text does not precisely state that, does it? Nor does it does mean that -- contrary to what the fellow wrongly infers.
That is not to infer that there are indeed Scriptures commanding us to be faithful to our spouses (be they full-legal-status wives or common-law/non-State-registered concubines of our own):
Malachi 2:15 Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does He desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.
When words of Scripture are read, it is absolutely vital that we do NOT follow the meanderings and misassertions and non-authorized additions and subtractions and revisionism of apostates who satanically "read into" actual and given words of the Text with devious misapplications against relegating the truth they refuse to accept into irrationalizations excused as "symbolism" or "metaphor" or "figurative allegory."
Instead, given and Divinely-inspired words of the TRUE-translation Text mean EXACTLY what the precise words state - nothing more and nothing less- which (in so many words) logically mean (in this case) that harem polygamy is forbidden for [only] a bishop or deacon - something in one sense totally separate from the concept of marital fidelity and faithful to a singular wife.
Elephants are not oranges on trees, and nails are not light bulbs. Or whatever. Even though elephants and oranges on trees are lifeforms, and both nails and light bulbs contain metal in at least partial composition, they are two completely different things, are not to be misregarded as symbolically nor metaphorically nor figuratively nor allegorically the same or even remotely similar.
The cause of why that fellow misinterprets those two verses in First Timothy is probably because he has wickedly relegated the idea of harem polygamy (such as done by Abraham, Jacob, Gideon, Elkanah who produced Samuel, David, Solomon, and possibly even Hosea) to something evil and damnable -- but which multiple-wife/concubine polygamy of a man (even a chief man) does God ever call "evil" anywhere in the entire Holy Bible.
The mis-assessment of that baptist fellow is quite likely based upon his "fear-of-man," cowering and caving in to sexist feminists, which cowardly compromising is fortunately not in any way a perverted chauvinistic part of the blessed patriarchal culture of islamic muslims of Saudi Arabia, Iran, parts of Africa, and other such Middle Eastern countries where male harem polygamy is not only legal and allowable, but in certain cases encouraged and expected.
The following applies to not only arab sheiks, but so-called "christians" in America and Europe and elsewhere globally:
Second Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
And if chauvinistic feminist-suckholing perverts in the U.S. do not comply with that, then:
Acts 13:46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, hey, we turn to the nations.
Paul was rescued by military Roman-soldier Gentiles when armaments-lacking disbelieving "jewish" civilians turned on him.
On to another point.
I heard the fireball preacher associated with the program Walk in the Word state that there will be "no marriage in Heaven." Yet, did he also state that "spouses" will recognize each other in Heaven and "have a perfect relationship with each other?" If he did, and those individuals are call "spouses in Heaven" by him, it (of logical necessity) is most obvious that those "spouses" will [yet] be "married" to each other there....or they would have not been called "spouses in Heaven" by him. Yes?
Of course. The exact words of Holy Writ definitively prove that the physical death of either a husband, or a wife (or concubine) of that husband, is not equivalent to an automatic divorce - in spite of the non-Scriptural words of "...till death do us part..." which exact words are not found in any part of The Holy Bible but which typically are mouthed during many earthly wedding ceremonies.
The tricky word in that phrase is: "part" - and what is by "part?" Divorce? Annulment? Legal separation? Or instead simply what St Paul inferred by stating:
First Corinthians 7:5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.
Indeed. In fact, it is an eternal command of the Lord (and not simply Paul) that:
First Corinthians 7:10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband
First Corinthians 7:11 but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband -- and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
Always, and forever -- in the never-ending marital relationship permanence intended by the Almighty, because:
Matthew 19:6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. Who therefore God has joined together, let not humans put asunder."
Mark 10:9 Who therefore God has joined together, let not humans put asunder."
And that "put asunder" part means that humans (even by the physical death of one or both of them) are forbidden to break or pull apart the marital relationship cemented or welded together by the LORD Himself!
That being the case, what is meant by the following?
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mark 12:25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
It does NOT read: "they are not married in Heaven if they were married on Earth."
What is meant is only what THE given words of Matthew 22:30 and Mark 12:25 exactly state and precisely mean - and from that logical and realistic applications can legitimately be supposed and assumed (not presumed).
No one will be "getting married" in Heaven. No one will be giving away their daughter in a wedding ceremony in Heaven. No one will be dating for courtship purposes, nor looking to acquire a spouse, nor asking anyone to get or become or be married to them with or without fearful apprehension, nor expecting or craving anyone to ask them to get or become or be married to them, with or without wanting to. And no one in Heaven will suddenly and for whatever cause decide to divorce the spouse they already have (if they already have one).
Revelation 21:5 And He who sat upon the throne said, "Hey, I make all [or at least, most] things new." Also He said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true."
"All" things "new" would be meaningless if ALL things were new and changed. In that case, we who read the Bible and expect the best could not relate to anything whatsoever. ALL definitions of ALL words would be changed into senseless and absurd gibberish.
We do not know if angels sexually reproduce, or even reproduce in non-sexual ways. Simply because it does not specifically elaborate, does not mean that reproduction in fact and in reality does not occur.
Case in point: Even though the polluted "sea will be no more," per:
Revelation 16:3 The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a dead man, and every living thing died that was in the sea.
Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
...does not mean that there will not be some ocean or oceans somewhere wherever and whenever in eternity, but does mean that drownings and tidal-wave tsunamis will no longer be a threat, a cause for fear, pain, and/or death.
For those with resurrected bodies, who will be able to eat fish like Christ could after His resurrection (and besides going through doors and walls unhindered, perhaps even urinated and defecated if He has so wanted), gone will be the erectile dysfunction, exacerbated by previous earthly years of warm-weather-immodesty-and-consequential-porn-incited abuse by self-sodomizing masturbation. Absent will be spousal apprehensive mistrust, misunderstanding, and inability to sync together in unified lovemaking procedures. Gone will be the lack of stamina and inability to recuperate. Gone will be the impatience of quick-lube-job premature and agonizing-to-restrain orgasmic ejaculation on the part of godly husbands, and the excessively-drawn-out delay to reach ultimate climax of righteous wives.
We do know that two sexually-oriented components relating to the curse given to Adam and Eve and progenie thereof in The Garden of Eden:
Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain and conception in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
...will not be existing in Heaven.
If female spouses of male husbands do reproduce, it will be without childbearing pain.
Regarding the "your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you" phrase does not mean that wives will no longer accommodate to the following:
Titus 2:4 ...and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Titus 2:5 to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.
...but does involve:
First Corinthians 7:34 There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
First Corinthians 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may throw a snare on you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
Will wives in Heaven yet be submissive to their own husbands, obey them, and submit to them in everything?
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord.
5:24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
5:33 ...let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Colossians 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
First Peter 3:1 Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
3:2 when they see your reverent and chaste behavior.
3:3 Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of fine clothing,
3:4 but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
3:5 So once the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves and were submissive to their husbands,
3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him 'sir.' And you are now her children if you do right and let nothing terrify you.
3:7 Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker gender, being that you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.
But of course.
And will husbands no longer love their wives (and/or concubines) in Heaven?
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Of course not.
When the Almighty gave the primal command to Adam and his already-married-to-him wife (not whoring escort or masseuse) Eve to "multiply," was that command in any way associated with sexual desire and the active potential for sexual desire, engrained in the primal pair from God the Creator? Was sexual desire therefore "sin," a satanic Act of God, and hate-God wickedness to have such engrained-from-the-Lord sexual desire? Have married couples sinned by culminating their "lack-of-self-control" sexual desire in marriage....according to Paul's First Corinthians 7 verse 36? Is marriage-resulting "lack of [sexual] self-control" Paul mentioned in First Corinthians 7:9 something inferior and undesirable, perhaps a pitiful and pathetic manifestation of mind-in-the-trash filthy inadequacy? Should men (and women) be vigorously "red-blooded" [with sexual desire] or instead blue-blooded morlock zombies with zero sexual desire? Will already-married human spouses in Heaven thus be morlock zombies with zero sexual desire in despicably sterile and boring perfect self-control, rife and reeking with angelic abstinence? Dirty minds used to shameful/secretive lustfully-lurid shenanigans of the gutter would presume so.
So, there will be no sexual desire of humans in Heaven who were already married to each other before they got there, but instead they will be sexlessly nothing but a bunch of formerly-male-or-female-but-now-genderless "angelic" eunuchs devoid-of-erotic-desire, in Heaven?
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 25:6 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
Genesis 32:22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon the Hivite
Deuteronomy 21:10 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hands, and you take them captive,
11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have desire for her and would take her for yourself as wife,
12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails.
13 And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14 Then, if you have no delight in her, you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,
16 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,
17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
Judges 8:30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
First Samuel 1:1 There was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
First Samuel 1:2 He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
First Samuel 27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.
Second Samuel 5:13 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.
Second Samuel 15:16 So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
Second Samuel 16:21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened."
Second Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Second Samuel 20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
First Chronicles 4:5 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah
First Chronicles 8:8 And Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.
Second Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters)
Second Chronicles 13:21 But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Second Chronicles 24:3 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
Esther 2:14 In the evening she went, and in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
Ecclesiastes 2:8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.
Daniel 5:23 but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
This part of the web tract will deal with addicts, predators, and offenders - and there are many.
Some will adamantly assert that a majority of men are addicted to being held down by gravity, to desiring the repetition of seeing sunlight, breathing air, and starting their vehicles to go to work each day. Others would claim that human males are addicted to certain bodily cravings, such as relentlessly urinating and defecating.
To be fair, however, one would wonder not merely how many female humans are similarly and also addicted (if that is the case) to not simply incessantly urinating and defecating as bodily cravings, but also being held down by gravity, desiring the presence of sunlight, breathing air, and doing household duties each day.
It behooves both the author of this piece, and the readers, to define the term "addict," and such involves an abnormal preoccupation with habitually doing some bodily action repeatedly, such as being held down by gravity, desiring the presence of sunlight, breathing air, etc. Moreover, the words "abnormal" and "preoccupation" associated with "habitually" and "repeatedly" must be analyzed and elaborated upon.
Was not Tamar, Judah's daughter-in-law (of the geneology of Jesus Christ), a sexual "addict," sexual "predator," and sex "offender" according to the following (for the "reasonable" cause stated)?
Genesis 38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up" --for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
12 In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"
14 she put off her widow's garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.
16 He went over to her at the road side, and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
17 He answered, "I will send you a kid from the flock." And she said, "Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?"
18 He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
19 Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.
20 When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he could not find her.
21 And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the harlot who was at Enaim by the wayside?" And they said, "No harlot has been here."
22 So he returned to Judah, and said, "I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, 'No harlot has been here.'"
23 And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, lest we be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her."
24 About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."
25 As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said, "Mark, I pray you, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."
26 Then Judah acknowledged them and said, "She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not lie with her again.
Was Ruth the Moabitess (of the geneology of Jesus Christ) a sexual "addict," sexual "predator," and sex "offender" engaging in sexual "molestation," sexual "assault," and sexual "abuse" according to the following record"
Ruth 3:4 But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then, go and uncover his feet and lie down; and he will tell you what to do."
5 And she replied, "All that you say I will do."
6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.
7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and lay down.
8 At midnight the man was startled, and turned over, and hey, a woman lay at his feet!
9 He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth, your maidservant; spread your robe over your maidservant, for you are next of kin."
10 And he said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter; you have made this last kindness greater than the first, in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
11 And now, my daughter, do not fear, I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of worth.
12 And now it is true that I am a near kinsman, yet there is a relative nearer than I.
13 Remain this night, and in the morning, if he will do the part of the next of kin for you, well; let him do it; but if he is not willing to do the part of the next of kin for you, then, as the LORD lives, I will do the part of the next of kin for you. Lie down until the morning."
14 So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another; and he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."
15 And he said, "Bring the mantle you are wearing and hold it out." So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley, and laid it upon her; then she went into the city.
Use of only the best, or correct, word is often crucial for avoiding serious misunderstanding having dire consequences.
For example, a faithful yet concubine-desiring husband might non-wisely state: "I need a new (or another or a different) woman" -- all of which convey the impression that he wants to first disown and divorce the wife he already has. His frequently-understandable Old-Testament-patriarchs-imitating intention to acquire at least one supplemental concubine (probably a non-State-registered/private-contract common-law one) is best proclaimed with: "I need an additional spouse" (using the word spouse instead of merely the word woman so that he precludes the potential misunderstanding of him wanting to commit adultery or illegal bigamy with a supplemental or additional woman or mistress who he is not presently married with (and not "to" -- which "to" would insinuate probably requiring a State-certified State-licensed third-party officiating negotiator, mediator, judge, or clergy to join them).
Again, it behooves both the author of this piece, and the readers, to define the terms "addict," "predator," "offender," "sexual harassment," "molestation," "sexual assault," and "sexual abuse," involving supposedly "abnormal" "preoccupation" with "habitually" doing some bodily action in "excess" (what that is and is not) repeatedly, such as being held down by gravity, desiring the presence of sunlight, breathing air, etc. Thus, the words: "abnormal" and "preoccupation" associated with "habitually" and "repeatedly" must be analyzed and elaborated upon.
Clearly, when a woman becomes an addict, she often then affects others as a predator, and becomes an offender -- and the Bible is full of examples of such deviant and reprehensible misbehaviors:
The first case involves the origin of heathen peoples based on incestuous conception:
Genesis 19:30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to reside in Zoar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.
31 And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Hey, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37 The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Benammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Clearly, the two incestuous but apparently-non-lesbian anonymous daughters of Lot confined in situational captivity, overwhelmed with impatiently-faithless sexual craving, both became situationally-duressed sexual predators and sex offenders.
Next case scenario:
Genesis 30:20 Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she called his name Zebulun.
Genesis 30:21 Afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Genesis 34:1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.....
[ NOTE: What "women of the land?" Canaanites, with their pagan idolatry and practices? How was that a violation and disregard against:
Ruth 2:22 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is well, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, lest in another field you be molested."
Proverbs 5:6 she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Titus 2:4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Titus 2:5 to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.
To wander into the lasciviously-dangerous territory of barbaric Canaanites is NOT being domestic...in stark contrast to prudently and safely staying at home! ]
Thus, Dinah - by improper geographical-location proximity, was an addict to explore forbidden places, and became both a sexual predator herself and sexual offender:
Genesis 34:1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land....
[ Second John 1:9 Any one who goes ahead (into a Canaanite-like strip joint, internet-porn website, or drunken-brawler gang of molester bullyboys) and does not stay in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who stays in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son.
10 If any one comes to you [as a pagan-Canaanite-equivalent] and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;
11 for he who greets him shares his wicked work. ]
Genesis 34:2 and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.
4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this maiden for my wife."
5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
8 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I beg you, give her to him in marriage.
9 Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
10 You shall reside with us; and the land shall be open to you; dwell and trade in it, and get property in it."
[ Second Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismated with [seasonably-immodest, Canaanite-pagan, homogay, feminist-sexist, abortionist, atheistic, agnostic, nazi or communist, anti-scientifically evolution-mythology] disbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ]
Genesis 34:11 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
Genesis 34:12 Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden to be my wife."
[ Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days. ]
13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
14 They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
16 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your [Canaanite-idolater pagan] daughters to ourselves, and we will reside with you and become one people.
20 So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
21 "These men are friendly with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for hey, the land is large enough for them; let us take their ["crazy-superstitious-belief-in-One-True-God"] daughters in marriage, and let us give them our [Canaanite-idolater pagan] daughters.
22 Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.
23 Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be ours [Oh, the selfish military-takeover greed!]? Only let us agree with them, and they will reside with us."
25 On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males.
26 They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
27 And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled
What is the punishment for a woman becoming a sex addict, predator, and offender?
Deuteronomy 22:20 But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,
Deuteronomy 22:21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
Do not many female-human sex models willingly consent (and even aggressively volunteer!) to being photographed "glamour-girl" mopheaded (with indecently-hairstyled loose long hair hanging below mouth-level), and/or partially-nude and totally-naked as non-forced porn models for their irresponsible laziness to not work hard at a decent job, greed for money, selfish obsession to get attention (or, in the cases of feminists Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, etc. to get politically-oriented or media attention).....and therefore become guilty of being sexually-addicted sexual predators and sex offenders?
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.
Many of the inferior-gender do not take that to heart, and become sex addicts, sexual predators, and sex offenders:
Proverbs 5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
3 For the lips of a loose woman [loose, as by over-erotically exhibiting LOOSE-long-haired mopheadedness] drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
6 she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
7 And now, sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26 for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.
27 Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
30 Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?
31 And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
32 He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
33 Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
Proverbs 7:4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;
5 to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.
6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,
7 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,
8 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
9 in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
10 And wow, a woman meets him, [mis-]dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.
11 She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;
12 now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
13 She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:
14 "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
15 so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
16 I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;
20 he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
23 till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
24 And now, sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;
26 for many a victim has she laid low; yes, all her slain are a mighty host.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
The prophet Ezekiel describes other female-human sex addicts, sexual predators, and sex offenders:
Ezekiel 16:15 But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
16 You took some of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and on them played the harlot; the like has never been, nor ever shall be.
17 You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the harlot;
18 and you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
19 Also my bread which I gave you -- I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey -- you set before them for a pleasing aroma, says the Lord GOD.
20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter
21 that you slaughtered my children [by abortion-homicide?] and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
24 you built yourself a vaulted chamber [Playboy Mansion?], and made yourself a lofty place in every square [and under the heading of "Massage" and "Escorts" in the Yellow Pages and porn tabloids];
25 at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, spreading your legs to any passer-by, and multiplying your harlotry.
27 Hey, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you, and diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
30 How lovesick is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen [masseuse-or-escort] harlot;
31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned hire.
32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
33 Men give gifts to all harlots; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries.
34 So you were different from other women in your harlotries: none solicited you to play the harlot; and you gave hire, while no hire was given to you; therefore you were different.
35 "Wherefore, harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
36 Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
37 therefore, hey, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed [abortion-homicide] blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
39 And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They shall bring up a host against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
41 And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; I will make you stop playing the harlot, and you shall also give hire no more.
42 So will I satisfy my fury on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you; I will be calm, and will no more be angry.
Ezekiel continues:
Ezekiel 23:2 Son of man, there were two women [are we talking Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann here?], the daughters of one mother;
3 they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
7 She bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of every one on whom she doted.
8 She did not give up her harlotry which she had practiced since her days in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.
9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed upon her.
11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt than she in her doting and in her harlotry, which was worse than that of her sister.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.
19 Yet she increased her harlotry, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt
20 and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses.
21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.
22 Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Hey, I will rouse against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
25 And I will direct my indignation against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire."
So, do us guys wonder how the female sex-addict, sexual-predators, and sex-offender friends and masseuses and escorts we have kissed and massaged the bodies of are now doing (if we have indeed already done such)?
Where are they now, and what is their present marital status...being that we became one body (or flesh) with them?
First Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the non-righteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate/homogay [Gr. malakoi], nor sodomites [Gr. arsenokoitai] [and those of the HRC, GLAAD, etc. are samples],
10 nor thieves [raiding the Social Security Trust Fund for illegal-aliens and voters-bribing pork projects], nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. [Redemptive atonement is possible?!]
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any [so, no addictions to anything!].
13 Food is for the the belly, and the belly for food," but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God has both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by His own power.
15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid!
16 What? Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? "For two," said He, "shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
19 What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you and which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own [in spite of: "Keep Your laws on and not off "my" body," -- but which body actually belongs to Creator Christ!]?
20 For you are bought with a price [pricey then spendy sex slave for God]. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
How do weaker-gender sex addicts, predators, and offenders abuse and assault non-soliciting male-human victims? Especially during seasonably warm days? Is it not ignoring, disregarding, and disobeying the modest-dress-code inferences plainly revealed in the following Scripture passages?
Numbers 5:18 (RSV and NASV) And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Second Samuel 13:14 (RSV and NASV) But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.
15 Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up, and get out."
16 But she said to him, "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.
17 He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."
18 Now she was wearing a FULL-length robe with LONG sleeves [and NO mention whatsoever of it having: "diverse colors"!]; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king traditionally attired. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs [with shorts or shortened/slitted skirt], pass through the rivers [without frogman-diving-suit swimwear].
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance [molesting retaliatory "abuse," assault, or rape?], and I will spare no man.
4 Our Redeemer--the LORD of hosts is his name--is the Holy One of Israel.
[ NOTE: "Redeemer?" Ah, there is hope for atonement, through the Holy One of Israel! ]
Jeremiah 2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod [nothing said about wearing out shoe soles!] and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
First Corinthians 11:14 Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,
15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 If any one is inclined to be contentious, we recognize no such practice [of allowing a woman to consider her loose long hair as adequate as a public prayer veil or covering], nor do the churches of God.
How do women keep from becoming sex addicts, predators, and sex offenders?
(1) By being dressed modesty when in general mixed-gender public view:
First Timothy 2:5 For there is one God (and He ain't "allah!"], and there is ONE mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus [NOT Mohammed nor Joseph Smith nor any cultic-catholic priest nor Buddha and especially not B. Hussein Obama!],
6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time.
7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly [which includes having longer-than-mouth-level loose long hair tied up in a chignon or tied into a back-of-head single ponytail!] and sensibly in decent apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
10 but by good works, as befits women who profess religion.
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
12 I allow no woman [within or outside of the church, whether in politics, government, schools, law enforcement and the judiciary, banking, corporate leadership, etc.] to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve [the initiates of politics, government, schools, church, law enforcement, the judiciary, banking, corporate leadership, etc.];
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor [so don't put them in charge of National Security!].
15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children [rather than committing and not performing abortion-homicide], if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with sobriety.
(2) By getting and staying married by age 20 or thereabouts:
Leviticus 27:2 "Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,
3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women [Gr. ne(o)teras, NOT ch(e)ras] (NOT "widows") marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.
15 For some have already strayed after Satan.
The purpose for that is to consider and compare the pros and cons of not only children themselves having whatever "sex" is possible and/or desired and/or enjoyable with each other of their own peer group or age, but also who might (though extremely unlikely) themselves be the initiators of having whatever "sex" they improbably desire or might enjoy with adults -- and (much more commonly) consider and compare the pros and cons of adults aggressively seeking perhaps quite-one-sided desirable-only-to-them? and/or only-somewhat-for-both? sex of various types and severities with children.
It behooves you the reader and I the author to define what exactly is meant by "child."
Yours truly rather despises the title of "minor" applied to any child of any age, from infancy to twelve years old. The opposite of "minor" is of course - by default - "major" - and I feel that using either term (minor and major) for children and adults) is not only silly and somewhat laughable, but even ludicrous and ridiculous.
The reason for that is that it negatively puts children in a kind of subhuman status and relegated to inferior position of importance compared to adults, and I have not yet heard any adult who wants to be called a "major" in contrast to a "minor." Thus, "minor" is more or less a derogatory term which conveys a somewhat abusive attitude of despising young people whether they are infants, toddlers, or tweens.
Admittedly, the Bible relates the idea of subordinating children and and the superiority of adults in terms of adult authority over children, and not vice-versa:
Proverbs 13:24 He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction. [ WHAT was that SECOND statement? ]
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him [ reasonably? ]with a [ non-steel? ] rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Isaiah 3:12 My people: children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.
First Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
First Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature. [ So much for the non-sophisticated not-yet-grown-up name: Playboy ]
Second Corinthian 12:14 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children. [ especially in the shambles of the Obamanation economy, with the huge National Debt the way it is ]
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything [ unless they tell you to stab the preacher, drink cyanide, or rob a bank ], for this pleases the Lord.
What parent would do that? You'd be surprised.
Luke 14:26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple."
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. [ but review the last two verses above ]
Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Hebrews 12:5 And have you forgotten the exhortation which addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you are punished by Him."
Hebrews 12:7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Hebrews 12:8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Hebrews 12:9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
Strange and foreign it would be if Proverbs instead told children to discipline their fathers, and Ephesians instructed parents to obey their children, and Hebrews told fathers to endure discipline from their children. Bassackwards that would be!
But yet, children should neither be reviled as "minors" nor considered "under-aged' -- whatever the hell "under-aged" means and does not mean.
Here is the first glimpse of guidance we glean especially in the area of adults suggesting or even ordering children (by gentle offers of tantalizing treats or fun privileges or attractive favors . . . or instead threatening severe isolation or punishment for possible non-cooperation with intolerant orders and demands) to engage in various types of denudement with or without the follow-up or addition of certain types of erotic contact . . . fearfully submitted to because of the over-towering stature, physical strength, and horrifying authority of adults compared to much weaker and smaller children.
Before expounding upon that, we consider whether we can contemplate the possibility that children themselves desire certain types of "sex" with opposite gender of their own age, or close to their own ages.
The answer is, surprisingly, a definitive: yes!
This webpage author speaks from personal experience as he recollects the private tent experiences he enjoyed with the neighbor-girl toddlers back when he was a toddler (which, as he remembers, they did not find as titillating as he did, and their accommodating covert-and-I-guess-non-disclosed-to-others participation with him was thus only temporary), and he would further guess that most toddlers have engaged and will engage in various forms of "Show me yours and I will show you mine" besides giving and receiving certain kinds and degrees of actual physical exploration of usually-hidden bared body parts of their opposite-gender partners and playmates (like, for example, the bared buttocks - though perhaps not so much the frontal genitals which probably to them are not that interesting -- yet).
And that brings up another point concerning their general lack in sexual interest in genitals at that age.
A mature adult (from early teen on) who has experienced the sexual ripening of puberty and accompanying development of sexual body parts and functioning, has a well-developed appreciation of everything genital, whereas infants and toddlers and even tweens not yet age 12 simply do not understand why adults are so preoccupied with studying, handling, fingering, probing, licking, sucking, and manipulating genitals.
Such overt concentration on genitals by mature adults can is probably not simply confusing but even frightening. And if they have been told to take off all their clothes in the process of body-parts manipulation by adults, those children will likely have never-to-be-forgotten memories of being Naked and Afraid (without even being deposited by some contracted helicopter on some remote isolated island surrounded by lush vegetation).
It is as if children are dormant. Still hibernating. Not yet awakened, nor capable of being awakened until their time comes:
Song of Solomon 2:7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the deer of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
Song of Solomon 3:5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the deer of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
Song of Solomon 4:16 Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
Song of Solomon 6:2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Song of Solomon 8:4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
Song of Solomon 8:8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?
Ezekiel 16:7 ...and grow up like a plant of the field.' And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
Why sexually-developed (and not necessarily "mature") adults would seriously consider stripping children completely naked or convincing them to do the same themselves, then fondling various parts of their nudes bodies, and more, is because those adults deduce that somewhat-helpless(?) infants . . . or better yet, toddlers . . . or better yet, even tweens, can be more persuasively convinced to comply because of the overwhelming power and authority of adults, and thus also more successfully threatened into silence and non-disclosure forever after. Such is, of course, more often than not a non-realistic presumption, especially in view of the numerous more-or-less-believable media accounts of catholic priests and sex-slavery perverts more than allegedly manipulating such children for sexual purposes which non-murdered grown-up children have been brave and courageous enough to honestly testify to.
Pertaining to adults and what they might get out of completely denuding themselves and similarly-denuding children they would like to cozy up to, cuddle up with, and fondle various bared body parts of such children, there is of course limited enjoyment on the part of even adults who do that, because the typical sexually-oriented body parts of children at that age are not developed.
The legs (especially lower legs) of little girls have not yet developed the shapeliness typical of teen women, but are instead are sort of like straight-cylinder tree limbs, almost identical to boys of their age. Sexually-appealing hips have not yet widened. Chests are disappointingly flat and without even miniscule enticing-to-men protuberations typically called "breasts."
There is no sensuous crop of pubic hair. The vaginas of little girls are too small and too tight for enlarged adult-penis penetration. The small vagina does not get moist in preparation for genital insertion as it would with mature younger women. It is not as elastic as that of younger women, and will not expand sufficiently in contrast to the arousable vaginas of young-adult women. Thus it is subject to excessively-painful tearing, abrasion, bruising, and unusual bleeding - even if artificial or other lubricant is first applied before penile penetration.
And the whole process does not sexually arouse the child, but instead perplexes her, especially when she has been brought up assuming that people always wear clothes except for bathing and either urinating or defecation.
To them at that age, being completely disrobed is a senseless shameful, humiliating, and embarrassing thing which to them serves no useful nor practice purpose:
Jeremiah 6:15 "Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:12 "Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
Therefore, the child views genital insertion (or even the attempt to do it) as a weird, non-satisfying, boring, senseless, and even stupid thing to do.
Little boys wonder, at that early age, how such a flabby thing as their limpid penises could ever get stiff enough to stick it into some woman's frontal crevice (which rumored info they got from whoever, somewhere and somehow).
If adults in any way coerce toddlers or even tweens into advanced sexual contact, those kids understandably and rightly expect those adults who have done that type of intimate sexual contact to forever belong to them and take care of them as perpetual partners from then on:
Exodus 22:16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife.
Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins.
Exodus 22:18 You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exodus 22:19 Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged to be married, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
Even if both the adult and the child find themselves alone on a deserted island, and both (without cellphone communication) have stayed with each other while searching the island for others, and have not found anyone else, and there honestly seems to be absolutely no hope whatsoever of being rescued by boat nor plane, and so they sleep together (maybe in the nude, at least eventually) to keep each other warm, the kid expects the adult to be her everlasting soul mate forever.
In stark contrast, young adults (from pubertized teens on) become quite interested in new capacities and pleasures relating to their genitals, particularly with curiosity in connection with those of the opposite gender:
First Corinthians 7:28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such people shall have trouble in the flesh, and I would spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren: the time is short. It should be that those who have wives should be as though they had none;
30 and those who cried, as though they did not cry; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not;
31 and those who use this world, as not abusing it. For the fashion of this world passes away.
32 But I would have you be without cares. He that is unmarried cares for the things which belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
33 but he who is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
34 There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The non-married woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is marries cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may throw a snare upon you, but for that which is appropriate, and so that you all may serve upon the Lord without distraction.
36 But if any man thinks that he behaves inappropriately toward his virgin, if she pass the bloom of youth (has at least reached puberty past toddlerhood and tweenhood) and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.
It gets better, and goes way beyond the lonely and deprivational option of never-ending celibacy for either-gender teen:
First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the enemy no cause to revile us.
First Timothy 5:15 For some have already strayed after Satan (and become fornicating swingers, call girls, escort-or-massage prostitutes, gotten pregnant out of wedlock, acquired VD, cheated on and abused by pimps, allowed themselves to be mangled and butchered with abortion homicide, etc.).
In summary, keep in mind the very first Prime Directive (not simply a prediction), a Divine mandate to heterosexually genitalize, made to all humans by the Creator Himself:
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons (daughters not mentioned?), and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth."
Genesis 9:7 "And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."
The rainbow after The Flood was a colorful reminder to not homosexually sodomize nor masturbationally self-sodomize the human species into self-annihilating extinction, but to honorably and relentlessly actually and physically heterosexually and passionately fuhk (or genitalize) progenie into continued humankind existence (not simply talk about it as a meaningless spiteful expletive).
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
Amos 4:13 For lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth--the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!
Zechariah 10:1 Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.
First Corinthians 10:20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
Romans 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
The weather has been frigid and hostile to any Amazonian, Brazilian, or Aboriginal-type natives desiring to licentuously display their worse-than-bikinied/better-than-bikinied bare-breasted or bare-buttocked nakedness in general public view:
Revelation 3:15 "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!
Revelation 3:16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Being spit out of one's mouth is the result of merely displaying half-ass lurid exhibitionism of only [pornographic] loose-long-haired mopheadedness, naked-arm sleeveslessness, nude-legged slackslessness, and/or partially-bare-footed sockslessness under sandals or flip-flops......contrary to Scriptural admonitions and inferences to not do so.
Put another way, the severe cold (with the threat of exposed skin succombing to frigid frostbite within minutes with consequential intense pain, gangrene, and amputation) has stifled and postponed their hang-up and obsession to distract and harass others with nondiscriminate lust-inciting nudist exhibitionism.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for legitimate and timely flaunting of total human nudity for certain choice occasions and under special circumstances. That is quite congruent with the essence and import of what is contained within the Biblical Song of Solomon:
Song 7: 1 How graceful are your footsteps in sandals, royal maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
7 You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth of sleepers.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
Song 8:1 O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.
2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.
3 O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
5 Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.
6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame of the LORD.
However, there is a time and place for everything:
Ecclesiastes 3:5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecclesiastes 3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Most of the time is for keeping clothed - not merely for the sake of avoiding frostbite, but for communally-cooperative purposes of concentrating on other constructive and inventive things besides nudity-stimulated acts of Divinely-ordered sexual intercourse for sensual pleasure and for reproduction:
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Second Corinthians 5:3 so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.
Second Corinthians 5:4 For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
First Timothy 2:15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
First Timothy 5:8 If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than a disbeliever.
First Timothy 5:14 So I would have younger women marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no cause to revile us.
Revelation 16:15 ("Wow, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!").
Ignore the over-populationist nutcase goofs who deplore non-condomized, non-contraceptive, and non-abortive reproduction. They ignore the vast areas of habitable desolation out west and many other noninhabited but liveable areas elsewhere with their irrational and wacko roots-and-berries-only anti-meat/exclusively-vegetarian over-environmentalism:
Exodus 12:8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Romans 14:2 One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.
Of course, in the process of killing edible lifeforms to eat them, one need not abuse them in the process:
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Speaking of nudity stimulating sexual activities, some recent publicity has been given to penis pumps with the brand name of Pos-T-Vac. Not mentioned is the additional necessity of ringlet tourniquets (spelling?) around the blood-filled rigid penis to prolong erection. Such silly self-sodomy for spousal heterosexual purposes is generally not necessary for those particularly younger-adult males who have not worn out their limited erectile capacities with porn-viewing-exacerbated self-sodomizing masturbation and who experience penile non-flaccidy and non-limpidity by the mere sight of increasing degrees of attractive female-human exposure of various body parts, legitimatized by being married to the sensual arousers at the time:
Proverbs 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Proverbs 5:19 a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
Malachi 2:13 And this again you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor at your hand.
14 You ask, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness to the covenant between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
15 Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.
First Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the non-righteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
First Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
This we can do without disfiguring nor mangling our bodies and devoid of indigenously-lewd shame, contrary to the abusive witch-doctor and shamanism mandates of demonic traditions based upon voodoo superstitions:
Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Second Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
With reference to primative natives with noncivilized and sexually-defiling practices, there are many natives in South America and Africa who have been positively responsive and healthfully receptive to the teaching of Christian Catholics and other missionaries, and their sensible modest dress shows that:
Mark 5:15 And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the man who had had the legion; and they were afraid.
Luke 8:35 Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
First Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time.
7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in decent apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
10 but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion.
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
12 I all no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
Is there anything "immoral" or "indecent" about women wearing brown blouses instead of green ones, or wearing cotton ones instead of polyester ones? Is the Bible relatively "colorblind" pertaining to differences in skin color of humans?
Female-human arms per se come in different skin colors, as previously mentioned. Does that make them evil, and born-with-them body parts to be ashamed of?
Similar-but-different female-human arms of all 4-billion individuals of the inferior gender throughout the world are often partially clothed (and sometimes completely clothed) in cotton instead of polyester or silk or nylon or rayon, and are sometimes green or brown but usually never rainbow multi-colored. Do those differences make one or the other or several of them obscene? Should we distinguish with discretion? Should there be sacred and righteous discrimination? Segregation? Public-health-protective quarantine because of such?
What if the [ supposed ] illegal or unlawful infraction has nothing whatsoever to do with the color of long or shortened sleeves of a blouse or gown or dress, and has nothing whatsoever to do with whether the woven material of such short-sleeved or even sleevesless garments is composed of either cotton or polyester or silk?
What if girls and women were arrested and ticketed and fined for mindlessly or deliberately, arrogantly and belligerently displaying or flaunting parts of their NAKED arms with shortened sleeves, or (worse yet?) all of their NUDE arms with sleevesless garments of whatever fabric material or color?
Does anyone really presume that a typical and healthy non-airconditioned non-shaded girl or woman would die of heatstroke unless she bared parts or all of her arms with short-sleeved or sleevesless attire?
Do teen-and-collegiate-aged woman softball players enjoyably displaying their cute men-imitating femininity in decent and convenient back-of-head ponytails with long-sleeved baseball shirts and full-length baseball slacks and socks with baseball shoes - vigorously playing a fast-paced and vigorous game of girl's softball - die of heatstroke when seen on cable TV? If not, why not? WHY?
Is there a necessity to over-tan or even sunburn the skin of partially-exposed or totally-exposed female-human arms for the purported and alleged sake of morlock-like/lemmings-plunging-into-the-sea-similar conformity to lewdly-demonic seasonal fashions and styles of abusive sex-objects-for-monetary-greed publishers and producers and studios?
CAN female-human blouses and shirts which absorb very-minute amounts of sweat on completely-covered arms be regularly and easily washed with other sweat-laden laundry (e.g. bras, panties, socks, slacks, etc.) when eventually needed, and clean clothes instead put on and worn?
IS the abstract concept of "modesty" and "decency" at ALL and in ANY CONCEIVABLE way involved in whether or girl or woman covers her arms completely when in general mixed-gender public view, or instead goes around with parts of her naked arms uncovered with short sleeves or even all of her nude arms uncovered with sleeveslessness (no matter what the outside and non-airconditioned temperature is during warm weather in America or Canada of Mexico or Antarctica or in Iran and other countries where Middle-East sharia-like islamic-fundamentalist hijab or burka costumes are customary) in GENERAL-PUBLIC view?
WERE the arms of their great-great-great-great-great-great grandmothers of the Old West and back to the Puritans and pilgrim pioneers covered by LONG sleeved garments? How about the Amish? How about Catholic nuns? If so, WHY? And do not give me the non-acceptable excuse of an alleged oversupply of flies, gnats, or mosquitos!
Generally, the King James and New King James and various other "translations" (questionably associated with the name: "Holy Bible") are rather accurate according to the original Hebrew and Greek words considered inerrant and valid of the Old and the New Testaments of that Bible.
However, for some strange cause, there is a serious discrepancy concerning vital English wording of KJV-type Bibles (and many other modern renditions such as the NIV and TLB) . . . in STARK contrast to the Revised Standard Version and ESV and NASV and Douay-Rheims version of Second Samuel 13 verse 18 -- directly related to and involved with the covering of the female bare arms of a certain women named who was wearing not a "multi-colored robe" but rather something quite different which is defined by scholarly lexicons as a robe or gown or dress which "reached to the wrists and ankles", regarding which type of garment was stated to be the traditional, expected, and commonly-accepted attire of virgin daughters of the king (who thus set the dress code standard for civilian-peasant commoners throughout the kingdom).
Consider the following translational differences and thus incompatible discrepancies of Second Samuel 13 verse 18 revealed by Bible software provided by Larry Pierce:
18 (RSV) Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king clad of old. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.
18 (Douay) And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king’s daughters that were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust her out: and shut the door after her.
18 (KJ21) And she had a garment of divers colors upon her, for with such robes were the king’s daughters who were virgins appareled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
18 (NKJV) Now she had on a robe of many colors, for the king’s virgin daughters wore such apparel. And his servant put her out and bolted the door behind her.
18 (YLT) and upon her is a long coat, for such upper robes do daughters of the king who are virgins put on, and his servant taketh her out without, and hath bolted the door after her.
Here's another sample of the same Old-Testament verse provided by e-sword:
II SAMUEL 13:18 =
(Douay-Rheims) And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king's daughters that were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust her out: and shut the door after her.
(NASV) And she was wearing a long-sleeved robe . . .
(JB2000 TLB) And had a garment of different colours upon her, for with such robes were the king’s daughters were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her.
(English Standard Version) Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.
(French TLB) Elle avait une tunique de plusieurs couleurs; car c'était le vêtement que portaient les filles du roi, aussi longtemps qu'elles étaient vierges. Le serviteur d'Amnon la mit dehors, et ferma la porte après elle.
(German) Und sie hatte einen bunten Rock an; denn solche Röcke trugen des Königs Töchter, welche Jungfrauen waren. Und da sie sein Diener hinausgetrieben und die Tür hinter ihr zugeschlossen hatte
(Italien) - Or ella portava una tunica con le maniche, poiché le figliuole del re portavano simili vesti finché erano vergini. - Il servo di Amnon dunque la mise fuori, e le chiuse la porta dietro.
(Jerusalem Publication Society TLB) Now she had a garment of many colours upon her; for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled.- -And his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
(KJV) And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
(KJV+) And she had a garment [ Strong's Lexicon # H3801 ] of divers colours [ Strong's Lexicon # H6446 ] upon [ Strong's Lexicon # H5921 ] her: for [ Strong's Lexicon # H3588 ] with such [ Strong's Lexicon # H3651 ] robes [ Strong's Lexicon # H4598 ] were the king's [ Strong's Lexicon # H4428 ] daughters [ Strong's Lexicon # H1323 ] that were virgins [ Strong's Lexicon # H1330 ] apparelled. [ Strong's Lexicon # H3847 ] Then his servant [ Strong's Lexicon # H8334 ] brought [ Strong's Lexicon # H3318 ] her out, [ Strong's Lexicon # H2351 ] and bolted [ Strong's Lexicon # H5274 ] the door [ Strong's Lexicon # H1817 ] after H310 ] her.
(Jay Green Literal) And a long tunic was on her, for so the virgin daughters of the king usually dressed. And his attendant brought her robes outside, and bolted the door after her.
(Norwegian) Hun hadde en sid kjortel på sig; for sådanne kåper brukte kongens døtre så lenge de var jomfruer. Hans tjener førte henne da ut på gaten og stengte døren efter henne.
(Spanish Reina Valera TLB) Y tenía ella sobre sí una ropa de colores, traje que las hijas vírgenes de los reyes vestían. Echóla pues fuera su criado, y cerró la puerta tras ella.
Clearly, some of the foreign-language renditions above follow the woefully-questionable KJV-type blurb of "a garment of diverse (or many) colors" -- whereas others obviously state an entirely different concept having absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with "colors" involving instead length of aspects of the robe or dress and even sleeves involved.
It cannot be both for THE singular given Hebrew word found in The Text, because that discrepancy is of the irreconcilable "apples and oranges" type!
For example, the word "pliers" in English always and only means a tool used as a clamp . . . and never means an elephant truck or tree rings or a roll of toilet tissue or a doorknob or an earlobe or a poppy seed or a leaf or an acorn or urine or gasoline or photosynthesis or radioactivity or gravity or whatever else of a zillion possible other things one could include using the descriptive word: "pliers."
Thus, THE exact and only Hebrew word EITHER conveys the idea of a "long-sleeved long" robe or dress or gown . . . OR INSTEAD the idea of a "multi-colored" robe or dress or gown . . . but NOT BOTH!
In fact, re-consider Strong's Concordance word numbers in the KJV+ passage shown above:
(KJV+) And she had a garment [ Strong's Lexicon # H3801 ] of divers colours [ Strong's Lexicon # H6446 ] upon [ Strong's Lexicon # H5921 ] her: for [ Strong's Lexicon # H3588 ] with such [ Strong's Lexicon # H3651 ] robes [ Strong's Lexicon # H4598 ] were the king's [ Strong's Lexicon # H4428 ] daughters [ Strong's Lexicon # H1323 ] that were virgins [ Strong's Lexicon # H1330 ] apparelled. [ Strong's Lexicon # H3847 ] Then his servant [ Strong's Lexicon # H8334 ] brought [ Strong's Lexicon # H3318 ] her out, [ Strong's Lexicon # H2351 ] and bolted [ Strong's Lexicon # H5274 ] the door [ Strong's Lexicon # H1817 ] after H310 ] her.
Carefully and thoughtfully (with no predetermined bias nor prejudice nor closed-mindedness), notice that Strong's Lexicon word-number identification for "divers colours" (i.e. # H6446), when actually looked up in Strong's Lexicon (AND, incidentally, when also researched in the scholarly Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, Thayer's Lexicon, the Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon, etc.), states the primary meaning of the numbered Hebrew word H6446 as: "a garment reaching to the wrists and the ankles:"
פּס
pas
From H6461; properly the palm (of the hand) or sole (of the foot), (compare H6447); by implication (plural) a long-and-sleeved tunic (perhaps simply a wide one; from the original sense of the root, that is, of many breadths)
KJV Usage: (divers) colours.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definition
פּס
1. flat (of the hand or foot), palm, sole
a. of the tunic reaching to palms and soles
NOTHING about "color" of any type or variety!
Why the KJV-type bibles so horribly and devastatingly screwed up the meaning of the Hebrew word into their weird reference to color is not known, but suffice it to say that "color" is totally inappropriate as a meaning for that particular Hebrew word, and the correct concept originally intended to be conveyed is instead: "a full-length gown with long sleeves."
IS the sometimes-deceitfully-non-admitted intention of arms-exposing bastards and bitches to show off tattoos, in obvious rebellious and worldly violation against:
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Psalm 98:1 A Psalm. Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done marvelous things! His right hand and His holy arm have gotten him victory.
Isaiah 52:10 The LORD has bared His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
John 12:38 it was that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
Now, lest we both become myopic as to what this all refers to in the context, it should be quite obvious and clear to you the reader (as it is to this webpage author) that it is not the will of the LORD for decent and proper godly women to arrogantly or belligerently, ignorantly or deliberately, mindlessly or carelessly or indifferently flaunt or expose any parts of their naked arms for whatever concocted and inane doctrine-of-demons excuse . . . whether for athletics, tanning, sports, seasonal warmth, satanic modern fashions and styles, the advice and insistence and disdain of sexual perverts and pervertesses around them - whatever!
First Timothy 2:8 (very-rough paraphrase) I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
First Timothy 2:9 also that women should be adorned modestly just before and all the time when in general mixed-gender public view, in decent apparel -- NOT with loose long hair inferred within the RSV and NASV "unbind the hair of her head/loosen her hair" translation but not KJV nor NIV "head" mistranslation of Numbers 5:18, and RSV's/NASV's Song of Solomon 7:5 referring to "captivating flowing locks" along with the non-RSV KJV reference of First Corinthians 11:14-16 clearly indicating that the churches of God have no such custom of considering a woman's glorious loose long hair adequate as a prayer covering or veil . . .
nor female humans baring their crotch-vicinity secret parts alluded to in RSV's (not NASV's) Isaiah 3:17 . . .
nor shamefully exposing their bare buttocks or any parts thereof as inferred in Isaiah 20:4 . . .
nor flaunting the sight of their bare breasts or any parts thereof, in accord with KJV's and NASV's (not RSV's) Proverbs 5:19 . . .
nor uncovering their bare legs or any parts thereof, as described in Isaiah 47:1-4 in correct translations of that passage . . .
nor going barefoot for admitted or non-admitted sexually-immoral purposes as plainly indicated by KJV's and RSV's and NASV's wording of Jeremiah 2:25.
First Corinthians 12:23 ...and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts (such as mopheaded loose long hair longer than mouth level or slanting at a sexy angle across the forehead, and/or parts or all of naked female-human arms, and/or parts or all of nude female-human legs, and/or parts or all of soxless bare female-human feet and/or bared female-human backs and/or female-human bellies, described in the obvious private-marital-context of Song of Solomon chapter 7) are treated with greater modesty,
First Corinthians 12:24 which more presentable female-human parts, such as face and hands, do not require -- concordant with detailed Scriptural-proofs available for intense scrutiny and study in http://lainwith.tripod.com and http://smotevart.tripod.com and more cyberlocations in the Web....
If we all lived in a fundamentalist country like Iran, and law-enforcement officers were interested in more than simply ticketing offenders for traffic violations and petty stealing at gasoline service stations, but instead were vigilantly and fervently patrolling to apprehend girls and women exposing any parts of their naked arms in general mixed-gender public view, everyone would be a lot friendlier, polite, happier, contented, and satisfied (especially men no longer sexually harassed and besieged by non-asked-for pointless-and-downright-insane baring of naked female-human arms by selfish and thoughtless attention-craving twits and floozies maliciously competing against each other for at-random male allegiance they sadistically have no ultimate desire to acquire nor make use of nor satisfy).
This webpage author would guess that there were and yet are some men, in both the past and also in the present, who clearly have a need to crave, search for, and enjoy the sight of as many totally-naked (i.e. "birthday"-suit-nude) toddler and (even more) tween girls, but especially teen and somewhat-older women....as they can. Can one believe that this masterpiece was the work of the superior gender?
Proof for that is the record of sacred-harem polygamy revealed (but hardly "exposed") by the patriarchs of the Old Testament (Lamech, Abram, Jacob, Gideon, Elkanah, David, Solomon, etc.) regarding (but not "concerning") who God apparently neither condemned for such one-man-with-several-woman responsibilities, nor disqualified them as to-be-saved saints. In fact, the Lord (through His author Saint Paul) required monogamy ONLY for bishops and deacons (without specifically targeting nor including every Christian man -- when He instead could have, either directly or indirectly, by inference):
First Timothy 3:2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher,
First Timothy 3:12 Let deacons be the husband of one wife, and let them manage their children and their households well;
The "traditional" marriage of 'one man with ONE woman' obviously is not so across-the-board traditional after all, concerning the stated monogamy inference....and women-dominated, feminist-sexist/beardless-male-patsies proponents of such a restrictively-worded "Marriage Amendment" within the contemporary United States are impractical and even sadistic, besides being indiscriminate and deceptive, by embedding such monogamy-required semantics within their admittedly-noble-but-non-satisfactory phraseology to disallow homosexual anything-but-genuinely-gay sodomy unions (so-called "civil" or other), with or without monetary governmental benefits.
Also inadequately addressed with their monogamous "Marriage Amendment" sloganzed words choice engrained within their buzzword propaganda phrase is the possibility and even anti-prostitution value of heterosexual but not government-licensed common-law marriage, which the State would as of now merely and indiscriminately regard as "cohabitation" -- by default falling into the category of generally-NON-punishable [pseudo]-"fornicating" heterosexual relationships, or - if the male partner is already legally or non-legally married - involved in also NON-punishable (or perhaps punishable for "bigamy" or "incest") multiple marital heterosexual relationships (and we're not talking about the sin and shame of committing (and not "performing") a "mistress" relationship, in which the man is an adulterer and the woman is a fornicator).
The rigidly narrow-minded terminology for Marital Status on IRS Form 1040 currently does not recognize single-partner or multiple-partners common-law (i.e. not-registered) heterosexual relationships (such as harems) as being classified with the "Married" option, which is somewhat lamentable in causing potential for legally-related confusion and misunderstanding:
Genesis 12:19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."
Naturalized Saudi and African sheiks, immigrating into America, would - by necessity - have to be allowed to keep all their multiple-wife/concubine harems without police or civil court interference, even though court-administered inheritance allocation, social-worker involvement, and child-protection interests would be more complex in such situations.
WILL there be heterosexual marital relationships in heaven, or does death function as automatic divorce against and in the cases of deceased already-married Christian couples?
Matthew 19:6 Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
Mark 10:9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man put apart.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in Heaven.
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are as the angels in Heaven.
Luke 20:34 And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;
Luke 20:35 but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
36 for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
All residents of Heaven - no matter what earthly gender - are "sons" of God?
We must never "read into" Scripture words what they do NOT precisely state.
Notice the absence of abrogation regarding continuing marriages (previously entered into in this temporal life) in Heaven (that is, Jesus did NOT state any status of nor requirement for marital dissolution for already-married couples....but rather affirmed that never-been-married or previously-been-married singles or widowed will not be getting married.....and thus (by reasonable implication - though I have to, again, be careful about that) temptation-by-public-immodesty-based non-satisfied-as-is erotic recourse involving spouse-seeking and worrisome sin-based uncertainty with related apprehension associated with getting married, will not be there.
Even though there is no record of angels ever appearing to general-public humans nude or partially nude, there is also no record of angels ever having been nude or partially nude in the first place, even from the beginning of their existence and onward...and in that sense such non-human creatures are indeed different than humankind -- which human beings instead were definitely and intentionally created completely nude from top of heads to bottom of feet:
Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Yet, even with humans, described as being totally nude from the start, the intended God-given classification for such a VERY-good and QUITE-justifiable state of 24/7 clotheslessness was that the naked woman was the male-observer's wife. Such clearly is NOT the case of multiple males who surf the web encountering the sharp-resolution, non-airbrushed, true-color photos and movie clips of nude females having been virtually located in cyberspace by typing in suggestive keywords into search portals such as non-filter-option-selected Google or Dogpile, resulting in scads of links connecting to nude female imagery along with an exhaustive plethoria of their myriad popup-linked associates-in-licentuousness.
The out-of-control-mistiming, Stuxnet-like, Song 2:7/3:5/8:4-alluded-to, publicly-immodest shenanigans against males caused by Song 2:15-related foxy trouble-causers is the inferior-gender source of problems previously mentioned, and is deplorable.
What is plain, though, is that in-the-same-sentence mention of shame along with total nudity there in Genesis 2:25 -- even in the case of the nude women being the male's wife (which she would continue to have been, had there been other close family members, not-so-close kin, and more-distantly-related people coming and staying around, or not).
With that serpent-incited inferior-gender succombing to curiosity-exacerbated demonic-persistence attrition of falling into sin after continued, presumptive, foolishly-combative, communication with The Devil, came sin-based complications relating to all sorts of things interfering with the initially-perfect man-with-ONE woman primal scenario: women occasionally thereafter neither could nor would expose themselves for sexual gratification to their husbands for a number of causes -- such as having cramps or headache during menstrual periods, when seriously pregnant or during childbirth, because of handicaps relating to temporary or long-term diseases or injuries, episodes of egocentrically-selfish feminist-sexist insubordination resulting in anti-sexual frigidity, economic inadequacies, the lesbian-based NIV mistranslation of First Corinthians 7 verse 1, etc.
The [general-public-view] shame now associated with sinful-disobedience-polluted human nakedness is manifested in vital modesty-of-attire-related Biblical passages:
Numbers 5:18 (RSV/NASV) And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair [loosen the hair] of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.
Isaiah 20:4 ...so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians captives and the Ethiopians exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no man.
Jeremiah 2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.
Second Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tabernacle, were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed about with our house which is from Heaven,
3 that, being so clothed, we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we would be unclothed, but clothed further, that mortality might be swallowed up by life.
First Timothy 2:8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in decent apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
10 but by good works, as befits women who profess religion.
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness.
12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
15 Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with sobriety.
Revelation 3:18 Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may be rich, and white garments to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
Revelation 16:15 Wow, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!
Hence, what came about (and yet remains operational) was (and is) the understandable yet problematic acquisition of additional wives and concubines to satisfy particularly the male human's instinctual erotic urges, desires, and needs -- particularly in response to the inferior gender's frequent irresponsibilities of failing to consistently and perfectly be dressed modestly - regardless of whether the weather is warm or not, or sports activities are being undertaken.
Ecclesiastes 2:8 (RSV) I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.
Such female-human problems are legion even and especially nowadays, and misfortunately male compensatory sexual behavior has and continues to be expressed in an almost-incredible amount of sexual harassment imposed on hapless male victims, by heterosexually-directed warm-weather female immodesty of various types to various severities, plus glamour-greedy young women voluntarily and consentually posing for largely-consequential R-to-XXX-rated cable TV, "girlie" magazines, "fine-art" museum sculptures and paintings, "adult-bookstore" video, and internet porn....resulting not in bodily-physical romantic relationships of actual persons, but instead a virtual-world substitution eventually and ultimately headed for sterility-like extinction.
The prevalence of multiple-wife-and/or-concubine harems is not that there is so much beauty that needs to not be wasted, that deserves to be prudishly ignored, disregarded, not explored, and so on....because much of what the Creator has created within this universe of ours will never be noticed nor appreciated while we are in our present temporal human forms. The legitimate extravagance of God pertaining to created things and phenomena which will never be seen by any human up until the Day of Final Destruction is overwhelming.
What can be discovered and utilized should be discovered and utilized, but obviously everyone has their time and money limits, not to mention the finite and dwindling sexual resources of their aging bodies.
So, the resurrected will be "like angels?" Sexless and genderless creatures dressed only and always in "white robes" in The New Heavens and The New Earth? The suggestions are not meant to be rhetorical answers.
One even wonders if copies of the Sacred-66-books HOLY BIBLE will be residing in Heaven -- with all the historical accounts recorded therein of rapes, molestations, harlotry, soliciting for prostitution, adultery and fornication, sodomy of same-gender perverts, murder, treason, slander, and so on.
For already-married couples in Heavenly bliss, in the process of forever worshipping God in all His glory, will there be opportunity for them to go off in private....away from the other angel-like resurrected humans....to get nude with each other and have sex, possibly resulting in painless childbirth for the woman?
Before that, during the Millennium:
Isaiah 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Several things are clear from Scripture. First, public immodesty and childbirth worry and pain will be a thing of the past for those in Heaven, and never ever done in Heaven:
Acts 1:10 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, hey, two men stood by them in white robes,
Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and hey, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Revelation 7:13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?"
14 I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night within his temple; and He who sits upon the throne will shelter them with His presence.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and He will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
It behooves the browser reading the above to not presume that all the words used above are euphemistic, allegorical, or symbolic!
If husbands and wives are like God in terms of physical/spiritual capacities, they will be able to see each other as follows:
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Will each resurrected body of each Christian human saint have such restored, renewed, or invigorated private parts as a fully-functional penis and vagina (as of young adults in their mid-20s), workable for erotic sexual purposes, besides being capable of urination and childbirth? Dr. Luke illuminates us with:
Luke 24:36 And as they spoke this, Jesus Himself stood in their midst, and said to them, Peace to you!
37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, for they thought they saw a spirit.
38 And He said to them, Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Observe and perceive My hands and My feet, that I am He! Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see Me have.
40 And when He had spoken this, He showed them His hands and feet.
41 And while they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, He said to them, Have you any food here?
42 And they handed to Him a piece of a broiled fish and of a honeycomb.
43 And He took it and ate before them.
Obviously, Jesus (in His resurrected body) could "eat" -- which has HUGE and FAR-reaching implications regarding the capacities of resurrected saintly bodies to do all sorts of diverse bodily functions and activities!
For example, it rather plainly infers that Christ's resurrected body had not only a mouth and tongue and lungs to speak with human voice, but probably also a digestive tract, which logically would indicate saliva, a stomach, intestines, rectum, anus, and of course a penis. Notice the selected function of the mouth in the Scripture passage above was to both talk and eat in that case, and not merely to look at nor just visually observe. It is assumed that Jesus in His resurrected body did not have to eat, or drink, or sleep, or jump, or urinate, or ejaculate....but if He wanted to, He could have - with glorified body parts available to Him for whatever purposes.
Such, by non-deniable and direct inference, gives realistic hope to the many erotically-driven men in the present who are sublimating and abstaining until they engage in successful search for a denudable spouse in singular or plural as a harem of their own.....rather than relinquishing to the worse-than-ingesting-dogfood temporary or permanent substitution of lusting over porn pix and vids or whatever for more or less the same visually-arousable but partially-satisfying sensual purposes....without financially-draining, reputationally-devastating, breakup/separation/alimony-possible, suspicion-of-infidelity-burdensome, venereal-disease threats ominously possible by initiating contact with a actual live person.
It is fascinating to realize that the Creator (i.e. Jesus Christ Himself, according to the first chapter of Colossians and of Hebrews), made our ancestral parents completely naked from the start, and called THAT: "very good." It is also noteworthy that He created sexually-oriented cravings and erotically-instinctual desires within those humans...not merely for commanded reproduction to multiply (read Genesis chapter one), but for pleasurable enjoyment:
Song 7:1 How graceful are your footsteps in sandals, royal maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks [loose long hair] are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
6 How fair and pleasant you are, loved one, delectable maiden!
7 You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth of sleepers.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, my beloved.
It is also noteworthy that "the word of the Lord abides forever" according to mother-in-law-possessing (thus obviously married pope) Saint Peter:
First Peter 1:25 ....but the word of the Lord abides for ever." That word is the good news which was preached to you.
Regarding the possibility of selective-partnered and refined human nudity continuing on in eternity, it is best to understand that what God already has created pertaining to the beauty of naked women is indeed "very good," but we did not ask for it in the first place and instead were merely born into it. So, let it be: 'Easy come, easy go' (if that is going to be the case of the hereafter).
However, try to imagine exactly what God is going to retain of what we already know of the entities He has already created, many of which He has said in His Word He intends to perfect resulting in everlasting joy directed to those in Heaven with Him.
Legitimate implications inferred by the aforementioned give a blueprint for certain heavenly activities:
Hosea 2:1 Say to your brother, "My people," and to your sister, "She has obtained pity."
2 "Plead with your mother, plead--for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband--that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born [yes!], and make her like a wilderness [well....], and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
4 Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry.
5 For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
6 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
7 She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.'
8 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver and gold which they used for Baal.
9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
11 And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
13 And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
14 Therefore, hey, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
15 And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
16 "And in that day, says the LORD, you will call me, 'My husband,' and no longer will you call me, 'My Baal.'
17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.
18 And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down [yes, yes!] in safety.
19 And I will engage you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.
20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know [sounds XXX!] the LORD.
Certainly, if Christ (who apparently "breathed upon" His disciples with His resurrected body (John 20:22) and ate fish in their presence) retains body parts and functions in His resurrected state, those of His who will get resurrected bodies will perform no less, even perhaps regarding the potential for temporarily laying aside their white robes in private to do the sexual fun and fulfilment temporal saintly couples (resulting in large or smaller families) have somewhat-inadequately done and yet somewhat do -- but with FAR [far!] less limpid-flaccidity, increasing-weariness, degenerating-recuperativeness frailty.
The case for Christ-the-Creator's sexually-oriented intentions for the saints in glory is made even stronger by:
Revelation 19:7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready;
Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;
Revelation 21:9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."
Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let him who hears say, "Come." And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.
.....which are not cutesy, means-nothing, blatterings of some lonely exiled visionary [John] on some deserted island, but instead quite possibly foreshadow renewed, restored, and revitalized coital/copulative virility, purity, and legitimacy -- eternally invigorated to the ages of the ages.