Questioner Makes Sweeping Statements Concerning The Person Of The Author
Isaac:
I have been discussing your mail with F. Brown. And he has stated to me, I am wasting my time reviewing these things with you. You obviously have made yourself the sole interpreter of the Law according to your own understanding. Any scriptural, historical evidence that I present that does not fit YOUR narrow personal interpretation, will not be accepted by you as you have shown in your previous posts.
Why do you make incorrect sweeping statements, yet do not respond to the content in my responses to you? I have put forth my case, and supported the positions I have taken with Scripture. Why don't you give me your scriptural negations of the positions that I have taken? Or do you give your opinions the weight accorded Yahweh's words in Scripture? Such that if you dismiss a particular view presented to you, it is so, even if the basis for your so dismissing that view is negated by Scripture?
Has The Levirate Law Ever Been Amended?
The Torah has not been a stagnant document, as neither has the laws of the different countries that we live in. Rulings/emendations have been made on the original laws as time dictated the necessity thereof. As indicated by the levirate law being amended to included other male relatives of the deceased, (not an actual brother, which is different than the Torah dictates) as in the case of Ruth and Boaz.
The Levirate Law Is Intricately Tied To The Inheritance Of The Deceased
The levirate law was intricately tied to inheritance of the deceased, such that where the deceased man already had a son there was no requirement that his widow be married by his brother or near kin. But if the deceased man did not have a son, then his widow was married by his brother to produce a son to succeed to his name, or to inherit his inherited possession of land.
Ruth 4:1-13 reads,
"4:1Now Bo`az went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Bo`az spoke came by; to whom he said, 'Ho, such a one! Turn aside, sit down here.' He turned aside, and sat down. 4:2He took ten men of the Zakenim of the city, and said, 'Sit you down here.' They sat down. 4:3He said to the near kinsman, 'Na`omi, who has come back out of the country of Mo'av, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelekh's: 4:4I thought to disclose it to you, saying, "Buy it before those who sit here, and before the Zakenim of my people." If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.' He said, 'I will redeem it.' 4:5Then said Bo`az, 'What day you buy the field of the hand of Na`omi, you must buy it also of Rut the Mo'avite, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.' 4:6The near kinsman said, 'I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take you my right of redemption on you; for I can't redeem it.' 4:7Now this was the custom in former time in Yisra'el concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the manner of attestation in Yisra'el. 4:8So the near kinsman said to Bo`az, 'Buy it for yourself.' He drew off his shoe. 4:9Bo`az said to the Zakenim, and to all the people, 'You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelekh's, and all that was Kilyon's and Machlon's, of the hand of Na`omi. 4:10Moreover Rut the Mo'avite, the wife of Machlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.' 4:11All the people who were in the gate, and the Zakenim, said, 'We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous in Beit-Lechem: 4:12and let your house be like the house of Peretz, whom Tamar bore to Yahudah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.' 4:13So Bo`az took Rut, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son."
Boaz's words therefore confirm that the purpose for his taking Rut as his wife was to raise up the name of the dead on the inheritance of the dead, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place.
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 reads,
"25:5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 25:6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Yisra'el. 25:7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the Zakenim, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' 25:8Then the Zakenim of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, 'I don't want to take her;' 25:9then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the Zakenim, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' 25:10His name shall be called in Yisra'el, The house of him who has his shoe loosed."
It should therefore be evident that Boaz and the near kinsman and the Zakenim of their city were simply putting to application this law of Yahweh in Deuteronomy 25:5-10.
Priority Of Inheritance Among Relatives
Numbers 27:1-11 reads,
"27:1Then drew near the daughters of Tzelohchad, the son of Chefer, the son of Gil`ad, the son of Makhir, the son of Menashshe, of the families of Menashshe the son of Yosef; and these are the names of his daughters: Machlah, Noach, and Choglah, and Milkah, and Tirtzah. 27:2They stood before Moshe, and before El`azar the Kohen, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, 27:3'Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korach: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons. 27:4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.' 27:5Moshe brought their cause before Yahweh. 27:6Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, 27:7'The daughters of Tzelohchad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. 27:8You shall speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, "If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. 27:9If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. 27:10If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 27:11If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Yisra'el a statute and ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moshe."'"
The Levirate Law Was Not Amended
It should therefore be evident that the priority of inheritance of the deceased's possession was laid down by Yahweh himself! And seeing, from the above quoted scriptures, that the levirate law and the law of inheritance went together, being different aspects of inheritance, it is indeed shown that the levirate law WAS NOT amended. The Zakenim of Boaz's city simply applied the various aspects of Yahweh's law to their situation, without adding to Yahweh's law or diminishing therefrom.
Your assertion that the levirate law was amended is therefore seen not to be correct. For what the Zakenim of Boaz's city did was simply to apply the law to their circumstances, WITHOUT ADDING to it or diminishing from it. It should therefore be evident that Yahweh indeed gave Yisrael NO AUTHORITY to add to his words, or to diminish from them.
Is The Glorified Yah'shuah Bound By Human Traditions?
Laws were also made regarding regulations for acquiring a wife, betrothal and marriage. Not permitting 'intercourse' to be the norm for betrothal/marriage, was enacted for the protection of the woman involved. In Yahshua's time we see Him attending a wedding, which is now the norm for believers and Jews prior to and since that time. At an earlier time, we see with Isaac and Rebecca, a bride price was paid for the bride, and then intercourse was apparently the norm to declare a couple married. Yahshua even in his 'betrothal/wedding to His bride, the NT assembly, is following the norm for Jewish weddings. He, HIMSELF, is following "laws" that were established outside of the Torah! The betrothal over wine, the bride price, the going away to prepare a place then returning to get His bride then the wedding supper! (Please note there is only one supper, indicating that there is actually only ONE BRIDE!)
Regarding amendments on the law, He HIMSELF, called "lusting" after a woman who is not one's wife, ADULTERY. He HIMSELF, called being angry with one's brother, MURDER. Neither of these acts is actually breaking any laws of the TORAH are they? He also gave us a commandment to "Love one another as HE has loved us". That is not TORAH either is it? Did HE add to/amend Torah?
Yah'shuah Spoke The Father's Words
John 12:44-50 reads,
'12:44Yah'shuah cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. 12:45He who sees me sees him who sent me. 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 12:47If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 12:48He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. 12:49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."'
Yah'shuah's words were therefore not his own, but belonged to the Father. Yah'shuah was simply acting as a messenger delivering the Father's words.
Does Deuteronomy 4:2 Prevent Yahweh From Adding To His Word?
Deuteronomy 4:2 reads,
"4:2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your Mighty One which I command you."
To whom was Deuteronomy 4:2 spoken to? Was it spoken to Father Yahweh? Or was it, rather, spoken to those humans under the authority of Father Yahweh? Is it not clear that it was spoken to the Yisraelites? And therefore was binding upon the Yisraelites, and NOT BINDING upon Father Yahweh? Or did Father Yahweh bind himself by his own word that he would not add to or diminish from his word?
Deuteronomy 4:2 Is Split Into Two Commands
It should be evident that the REASON the Yisraelites were so commanded in Deuteronomy 4:2 was to enable them to REMAIN FAITHFUL to the words of Yahweh their Mighty One! In other words, Deuteronomy 4:2 can be split into two commands. One command, the lesser command, of not adding to or diminishing from what Moshe had spoken to the Yisraelites. The other command, the greater command, of keeping the commandments of Yahweh their Mighty One. Thus it is seen that keeping the commandments of Yahweh is superior to the lesser command of not adding to or diminishing from the words Moshe spoke to the Yisraelites.
Yahweh Was Not Bound By Deuteronomy 4:2
Thereby IMPLYING that if one had Yahweh's words to deliver to people, words that had the effect of adding to or diminishing from what Moshe spoke to the Yisraelites, that one had to deliver those words of Yahweh. For those words delivered DO NOT belong to that one, but to Yahweh, who WAS NOT bound by the words Moshe spoke to Yisrael in Deuteronomy 4:2!
Nothing Is To Be Diminished From The Law Prior To The Accomplishment Of All Things
Matthew 5:17-18 reads,
"5:17Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. 5:18For most assuredly, I tell you, until Heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished."
It should therefore be clear, from Yahweh's word as spoken by Yah'shuah, that NOTHING was to be diminished from the law prior to the accomplishment of all things.
Yahweh Did Not Prohibit Himself From Adding To His Law
It should also be noted that Yahweh DID NOT rule out ADDING to the law.
Seeing that Yahweh ruled out diminishing from the law, but did not rule out adding to the law, with Yahweh himself adding to the law, one can indeed understand and appreciate Yahweh's words as spoken by Yah'shuah that had the effect of adding to the law. Words that he spoke as recorded in Matthew 5 and elsewhere!
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 reads,
"18:15Yahweh your Mighty One will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; 18:16according to all that you desired of Yahweh your Mighty One in Chorev in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my Mighty One, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.' 18:17Yahweh said to me, 'They have well said that which they have spoken. 18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 18:19It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 18:20But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other mighty ones, that same prophet shall die.'"
It should therefore be clear that Yahweh made provision, within the law, for speaking additional words to his people through the prophet that he would raise up from among the people. Thus clearly showing that the words Moshe spoke in Deuteronomy 4:2 did not bind Yahweh, binding only those to whom Moshe spoke that word to.
Prophets Have No Authority To Speak Words That Do Not Originate With Yahweh
It should also be noted that Yahweh also clearly showed that prophets have NO AUTHORITY to speak their own words, or words originating from a source that was not Yahweh! Thereby clearly showing that human beings have no authority to add to the law. Implying that only Yahweh has the authority to add to the law. Therefore, when a prophet speaks Yahweh's words, words having the effect of adding to the law, that prophet is acting in an obedient manner and is not violating Deuteronomy 4:2. For that prophet is NOT adding his own words, but is simply repeating Yahweh's words by his delivering the words that Yahweh has given him to deliver.
Yah'shuah Did Not Violate Deuteronomy 4:2
Seeing that Yah'shuah was that prophet spoken about in Deuteronomy 18:18, and seeing that Yah'shuah spoke Yahweh words, it should indeed be evident that Yah'shuah did not violate Deuteronomy 4:2!
Does The Law Permit Harlotry And Lesbianism?
Harlotry was not a sin in the OT, neither for the man, nor the woman who was not married or engaged. Neither was lesbianism. Are those acts SIN NOW? If you say they are, then according to your interpretation, you have added to the law!
The Law Calls Prostitution Wickedness
Does not Leviticus 19:29 read,
"19:29Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness"?
Thereby clearly indicating that prostitution is wickedness. Are you saying that what is clearly called "wickedness" is not sin?
Prostitution Is Unholy Conduct
Leviticus 19:1-2 reads,
"19:1Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, 19:2'Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your Mighty One am holy.'"
The subsequent stipulations that Yahweh gave, including Leviticus 19:29, deal with holy versus unholy conduct. It should therefore be clear that prostitution is unholy conduct, and that Yahweh clearly prohibits his holy people from engaging in such unholy conduct, lest they profane themselves by becoming unholy.
It should therefore be evident that one who prohibits prostitution is NOT adding to the law, but is in fact clearly applying it!
The Law Shows That Lesbianism Is Sin
Leviticus 19:20-22 reads,
"19:20WHOEVER lies carnally with a woman, who is a bondmaid, pledged to be married to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 19:21He shall bring his trespass-offering to Yahweh, to the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering. 19:22The Kohen shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: and the sin which he has sinned shall be forgiven him."
It should therefore be clear that it is SIN to lie carnally or have sex with a betrothed woman! It is IRRELEVANT whether the one lying carnally with her is a man or a woman! It should therefore be clear that LESBIANISM IS SIN and is unholy conduct! For a lesbian who commits adultery with another woman is just as guilty of sin as a man who commits adultery with a woman. And as prostitution is sin, even though those engaging in it are not married, so also is lesbian prostitution sin, seeing that those engaging in it are not married and cannot be married to one another!
Also, Leviticus 18:22-24 reads,
18:22
You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 18:23You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before an animal, to lie down thereto: it is confusion. 18:24Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you.It should therefore be clear that any sex that does not involve a man and a woman is both abomination and confusion, and defiles the one who engages in it. Seeing that lesbianism is sex that does not involve a man and a woman it is indeed both abomination and confusion, and defiles those who partake of it.
Did Yahweh Give Lawmaking Authority To Judges And Officers Of The Hebrew Nation?
So as long as you refuse to consider what is plainly stated in the NT, words of the Apostle Paul directing us to "observe the ordinances and traditions' (Jewish Traditionary Law - see Strong's concordance) you will always lack understanding. This lawmaking authority was given to the Judges and officers of the Hebrew nation, the 'assembly in the wilderness' good laws which we are to observe.
There Is Only One Lawmaker - Yahweh
According to my understanding, there is ONLY ONE lawmaker - Yahweh! And he has specifically forbidden human beings from adding to his word, or making their own laws and purporting them to be Yahweh's law (Deuteronomy 4:2). Why then do you say that Yahweh gave lawmaking authority to judges and officers of the Hebrew nation?
What Yahweh did was to give authority to human beings to APPLY his law. And where they were faced with situations that they were unfamiliar with, they were to SEEK HIS WILL in the matter, that he may determine it for them. Yahweh did not give human beings the authority to make laws and purport these to be his own. This is squarely Yahweh's authority that he has not delegated to human beings. Human beings are to apply Yahweh's law, and to derive principles from Yahweh's law and apply these to their various situations.
Judges In Yisrael Did Not Make Laws
Exodus 18:24-26 reads,
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So Moshe listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. 18:25Moshe chose able men out of all Yisra'el, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 18:26They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moshe, but every small matter they judged themselves.Seeing that the judges over the people brought the hard cases to Moshe, rather than determine them themselves, it is indeed evident that they did not presumptuously make their own laws. They simply applied the law to the best of their knowledge and understanding. And what was beyond their capacity to deal with they brought to Moshe for determination.
Deuteronomy 1:9-18 reads,
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I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10Yahweh your Mighty One has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. 1:11Yahweh, the Mighty One of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! 1:12How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. 1:14You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. 1:15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner who is with him. 1:17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is the Mighty One's: and the cause that is too hard for you you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. 1:18I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.It should also be noted, as seen from the case of the daughters of Tzelohchad, that even when the hard cases were brought before Moshe, Moshe did not presumptuously make his own laws in the determination of these hard cases. Rather he took the difficult matters to Yahweh, for Yahweh's own determination. Thus proving that Yahweh did not give human beings, including Moshe, the authority to make laws. Their authority was to apply the law that Yahweh had given them. And where they were faced with a situation that they did not know how to deal with, they were to consult Yahweh for his determination of the matter.
The Kohanim Given Authority To Arbitrate In Difficult Legal Cases
Deuteronomy 17:8-12 reads,
17:8
If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and get you up to the place which Yahweh your Mighty One shall choose; 17:9and you shall come to the Kohanim the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment. 17:10You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you: 17:11according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. 17:12The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the Kohen who stands to minister there before Yahweh your Mighty One, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Yisra'el.It should therefore be evident that it is the Kohanim the Levites that Yahweh gave authority to be the ultimate arbiters of matters pertaining to his law.
How were they to ultimately arbitrate in these difficult matters?
Kohanim To Inquire Of Yahweh In Difficult Matters
Numbers 27:18-23 reads,
27:18
Yahweh said to Moshe, Take you Yah'shuah the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; 27:19and set him before El`azar the Kohen, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. 27:20You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el may obey. 27:21He shall stand before El`azar the Kohen, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Yisra'el with him, even all the congregation. 27:22Moshe did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Yah'shuah, and set him before El`azar the Kohen, and before all the congregation: 27:23and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by Moshe.27:21 shows that the people were to inquire of Yahweh through the Kohen by the judgement of the Urim. Thus it is seen that the Kohanim also did not have authority to make their own laws. Their role was to seek out Yahweh's will on the matters before them, doing so by the judgement of the Urim before Yahweh.
Man Has No Authority To Make Yahweh's Laws
It should therefore be clear that Yahweh has not given man authority to make laws and purport these human laws to be Yahweh's laws. Man's role is to apply Yahweh's laws to the various situations is his life. When he encounters a situation that is apparently not catered for in the law, his role is to seek out Yahweh's will in the matter, and then abide by Yahweh's revealed will in the matter. Humans have no authority to make Yahweh's laws, nor do they have authority to add to Yahweh's laws!
Questioner Rambles On Over Several Issues
As I asked you earlier do you eat Biblically Kosher? If not, why not? If so, how do you know how to kill in a Kosher manner? That knowledge was preserved by the Jewish people in their laws.
How do you properly baptize? Is it done by the minister dunking the candidate? No this has been adopted form PAGANISM! The Jews possess that knowledge too, yet that is not in the Torah. Do you know how it should be done?
How does one know how to properly circumcise? The Torah does not tell us that either. You must learn from the people to whom were directly, given this knowledge. The Jews, Paul states they have an advantage in that they were given the Torah first hand.
You would be wise to consult those who were given the Torah first hand regarding the doctrines you have posted on your web site, you have much misinformation posted there. You have several thousand years of history, wherein you have ignored the rulings and regulations that have been made as time has progressed. You have also misinterpreted much of the NT to fit your own peculiar doctrine, to support your perversion of 'marriage' the 'good' marriage he blessed during creation week was one man with one women! He never was said to have blessed any type of polygynous union. He did not give David the women of Saul's household as wives, as many a commentary will show, and the knowledge of Hebrew marital law will support.
It is amazing that each time he 'saved/rescued' a man and wife, there was only ONE WIFE..... see Noah and his 3 sons , Lot and his wife, these were opportune times for Yahweh to show that he REALLY wanted a man to have more than one wife! (Isn't it amazing that the BEASTS that went on the ark in Gen. 7:2 & 3, went on by TWO's, "the male and his female". Seems like in Yahweh's plan, even the animals/beasts only had ONE MATE?? Looks like the polygynous lifestyle you promote, is more like that of a BEAST in the wild, than the plan Yahweh gave in the garden and repeated throughout scripture. Of course, there are NO polygynous couples mentioned in the NT. If that was such a preferred lifestyle, isn't if amazing that Zacharias had not taken an additional wife to Elizabeth, who had been barren? (Seems like he was being more like Abraham, monogamous even at an ADVANCED AGE, as he did not take another wife in addition to Sarah, and was almost 100 when he on Sarah's advice took Hagar, which was permissible under the law of Hammurabi, under which they lived).
Is Yahweh's Way As That Of A Beast In The Wild?
Seeing that you have likened the polygyny lifestyle to "that of a BEAST in the wild", and seeing that Yahweh has retained it as an intrinsic aspect of his law, it is indeed evident that you are likening the way of Yahweh to "that of a BEAST in the wild"!
Are you SUPERIOR to Yahweh? If Yahweh, in his infinite holiness, righteousness and wisdom, has chosen to retain the law, without diminishing it, why do you PRESUME to yourself the right or authority to diminish polygyny from Yahweh's law? Why do you DISOBEY Yahweh's clear words by both Moshe and Yah'shuah? Why do you RIDICULE Yahweh's law and a lifestyle that he has approved of?
Such behaviour is NOT of Yahweh! Are you forgetting Yahweh's words in Deuteronomy 18:20,
"18:20But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other mighty ones, that same prophet shall die."
Or will you diminish this word of Yahweh also, thinking that it does not apply in the current age we are living in?
Does Human Tradition Bind The Resurrected And Glorified Yah'shuah?
To say that Yahshua is a polygynous husband, is LYING as well, since in reality, He has only one bride, his body (of which he only has one) and according to the established law, each bride had her own BRIDAL WEEK! See Gen. 29:27. Messiah's bride does not have separate weeks! Therefore your interpretation of Matt. 25 is also flawed!
Does human tradition or conduct bind the resurrected and glorified Yah'shuah? Or is it the word of the resurrected and glorified Yah'shuah, in effect, Yahweh's word, that binds human beings? By what scriptural precedent do you prophesy that the resurrected and glorified Yah'shuah's actions will be based on human conduct or tradition? Do you know the details of Yah'shuah's actions after his return, the details with respect to his relationship with his bride? Have these been revealed to you? Or do you simply derive them out of human conduct or tradition?
Why Are You Presumptuously Adding To Yah'shuah's Words?
But as some say, 'you can prove anything from the Bible' and thus you have unsuccessfully TRIED to do.
A man who is with any woman other than his original wife from whom he is not divorced is an ADULTERER, according to Yahshua's own words. As one of the two who authored marriage, He authorized the man to have ONE woman as a mate.
As you have presumptuously added to Yahweh's words in the law, so do you presumptuously add to Yah'shuah's words. For nowhere did Yah'shuah say anything like "a man who is with any woman other than his original wife from whom he is not divorced is an adulterer." What he said is in Matthew 5:31-32,
"5:31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,' 5:32but I tell you that everyone who puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever shall marry her when she is put away commits adultery."
And in Matthew 19:8-9,
'19:8He said to them, "Moshe, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. 19:9I tell you that whoever will put away his wife, except for sexual immorality, and will marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is put away commits adultery."'
In these words Yah'shuah forbids men from [putting away] their wives on any ground EXCEPT adultery. He also forbids men from marrying any woman who is [put away] from her husband….
But what Yah'shuah DOES NOT do is to forbid a man who has not wrongfully [put away] his wife from marrying another!
So WHY are you adding to Yah'shuah's words - words Yahweh gave him to speak? Are you not speaking presumptuously? Are you not bringing yourself under the penalty of death spoken of by Yahweh in Deuteronomy 18:20? Or do you also diminish Yahweh's words in Deuteronomy 18:20, in the manner that you presumptuously add to Yahweh's words spoken through Yah'shuah?
Who Is Twisting And Stretching Scriptures To People's Destruction?
So, I'm sure you will continue to live and promote this perverted lifestyle, because your conscience is apparently seared, but in case you do not have another tell you YOU NEED TO REPENT, and stop promoting sin, or you will one day soon, know what it means to be twisting/stretching the scriptures to 'your own (and others') DESTRUCTION!
No need to write back until you see the error or your ways and repent before Yah of your sin!
You have put your case. And I have put mine. You think that I am "twisting/stretching the scriptures to '[my] own (and others') destruction". I likewise think you are doing the same. I have shown you where you are wrong, showing you your errors from Scripture. You have responded by asserting that human tradition supersedes Yahweh's word. For where Yahweh's word negates human tradition you still obdurately hang on to flawed human tradition. You therefore assert that flawed human tradition supersedes Yahweh's word.
Yah'shuah's words in Mark 7:6-13 was spoken against people like you:
'7:6He answered them, "Well did Yesha`yahu prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
'This people honors me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
7:7
But in vain do they worship me,Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'
7:8
"For you set aside the commandment of the Mighty One, and hold tightly to the tradition of men -- the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." 7:9He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of the Mighty One, that you may keep your tradition. 7:10For Moshe said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and,'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
7:11
But you say, 'If a man will tell his father or his mother, "Whatever you might have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, given to the Mighty One;"' 7:12and you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 7:13making void the word of the Mighty One by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."'ISAAC
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