Since the Bible God is advertised by Christians to be the only
true source of wisdom, justice, and morality in the universe,
it's only proper to examine what this "God" says
about one of the major problems of our fallen human society.
The Bible God is declared the one true fountain of wisdom in the
following:
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
The problem to be investigated is that of adultery and
unfaithful spouses.
God is quite clear about what should be done if a man or woman is
caught in adultery.
Deut 22:22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then
they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the
woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
This is part of God's Holy Law and there are no exceptions to
this rule. The evil must be purged.
[As an aside, it's interesting that God let one of his
favorite pet humans (David), circumvent this law when he
committed adultery with Bathsheba. God decided to let David dodge
the death penalty and killed David's child instead of David.
That story is found in (2 Sam chapter 12).
By killing David's child instead of David, God violated another
one of his own laws which states:
Deut 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither
shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
Jesus also thumbed his nose at his alleged Father's moral and
holy Law of Deut 22:22 when he excused a women caught in
the act of adultery and let her off with a warning in John
8:1-11.
However, God who is also supposed to be Jesus, had no problem
ordering a man killed because he picked up sticks on the Sabbath.
Num 15:32-36
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses
and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should
be done to him.
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely
put to death: all the congregation shall stone him
with stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned
him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Apparently God practices ethics based on situation and not on
absolute morality.
Such is the nature of the Bible and it's cast of holy characters.]
What does God say to someone who suspects their spouse of having
an affair or of being unfaithful?
What great wisdom does the holy and wise Creator of the Universe
give to humans who have this particular situation in their lives?
Let's take a detailed look at the Word of God and see:
Num 5:11-14
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of
her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be
no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be
jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the
spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife,
and she be not defiled:
Note:
If a husband simply suspects a wife of being unfaithful,
he can subject her to this trial by ordeal to determine if she
has really been unfaithful.
Suspicion alone is sufficient to set this procedure in
motion. This law is also only applied to women.
A woman can't demand the same trial if she suspects her husband
of being unfaithful. Men could have multiple wives and
concubines(sex slaves) so God has instituted a double standard
here.
Continuing with:
Num 5:15-17
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall
bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley
meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon;
for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial,
bringing iniquity to remembrance.
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
And the priest shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor
of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the
water:
Note:
The priest will concoct this magic potion which will help
determine if the woman has been unfaithful.
"Holy" water and dust from the floor are what
the Bible God wants his female followers to drink in order to
appease the suspicions of their husbands. Happy Hour anyone??
Continuing with:
Num 5:18-22
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover
the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands,
which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his
hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the
woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone
aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou
free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband,
and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside
thine husband:
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing,
and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a
curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy
thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;(any fetus will miscarry)
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels,
to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman
shall say, Amen, amen.
Note:
The woman who is suspected of being unfaithful must take an oath
and drink the holy cocktail made of holy water and dust from the
floor. If she is guilty, she will miscarry any fetus inside her,
become infertile, and get sick. If she is innocent, drinking the
water won't affect her.
This is called trial by ordeal. It's the same procedure that was
used by the Spainish Inquisition, which was also doing the work
of the Bible "God".
Are any bells and alarms going off yet?
Continuing with:
Num 5:23-28
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall
blot them out with the bitter water:
And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water
that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the
curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and
offer it upon the altar:
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the
memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall
cause the woman to drink the water.
And when he hath made her to drink the water,
then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have
done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth
the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly
shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a
curse among her people.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be
free, and shall conceive seed.
Note:
The women is MADE to drink the potion.
If nothing happens to her, she was innocent. However, if she gets
sick, she was guilty.
This is the way God does things and this is his Law.
Continuing with:
Num 5:29-31
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife
goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous
over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the
priest shall execute upon her all this law.
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
shall bear her iniquity.
Note:
This barbaric law can be imposed on any woman whose husband
suspects her of being unfaithful.
Women have no recourse if they suspect their husband of being
unfaithful.
In summary:
This is the wisdom and Law of the Lord God Almighty, who
Christians constantly chirp about as the source of all that is
wise, just, righteous and holy in the universe.
This law is also in full effect according to Jesus himself.
Matt 5:18-20
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till
all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the
same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no
case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
This law(Num 5:11-31), like all of God's righteous
laws, is to be revered and followed by those who want to worship
and serve God.
Deut 4:2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall
ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep
the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
***You won't hear Christians talking about this law in
their preaching or see it included in their sermons.
***You won't hear teenage fanatics for Jesus talking about this
law.
***You won't hear Christian singers singing about this law.
***You won't hear about it in organized Bible study groups or at
Christian seminars.
***You won't hear it from Christian missionaries who want to
conquer the world for their God.
Yet, you will hear Christians saying that they give their praise
to this God and spend most of their time serving him and doing
his will. They say the Bible is the Word of God.
When a company makes claims about it's product which aren't true,
it's called false advertising.
False and deceptive advertising is a disease among many
fundamentalist Christians who make claims about their God that
the Bible exposes as false.
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