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Adultery - Do you really know what it is?  

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5/12/2014 11:36 am
Adultery - Do you really know what it is?

Making polygamy a "sin" was a slow process. It was even common for Catholic priests to have multiple wives and mistresses. Pope Gregory II in a decretal in 726 said "when a man has a sick wife who cannot discharge the marital function, he may take a second one, provided he looks after the first one." Later, with concerns for protecting Church property from inheritance, Pope Pelagius I made new priests agree that offspring could not inherit Church property. Pope Gregory then declared all sons of priests illegitimate (only sons since lowly daughters could not inherit anyway).

In 1022 Pope Benedict VIII banned marriages and mistresses for priests and in 1139 Pope Innocent II voided all marriages of priests and all new priests had to divorce their wives. This had nothing to do with morality (multiple women for males had long been the norm since before biblical times), but it was about MONEY!
From the perspective of the Bible: Matthew 1:1-17: There are only four women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus. Each one was stained by sexual happenings. Tamar, married to Judah’s sons, dressed as a and Judah had sex with her. Rahab, the from Jericho, who hid the Hebrew spies, was the mother of Boaz. Boaz was married to Ruth, whose mother-in-law Naomi sent her to spend the night and please Boaz. The fourth is not mentioned by name, but is Bathsheba. Only her husband Uriah is mentioned. She did commit adultery with David. They are the only four women who are mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus. Each is special for sex.

Moses took down the Ten Commandments of which "Thou shall not commit adultery" was one of them. So in Leviticus 18 Moses went on to explain exactly what adultery is: Not at all what most people think. It is not having sex with a relative; not having sex with both a mother and her , but one or the other is ok. Read it. Not at all what we hear from the Christian right that all sex outside of marriage is adultery. That is not what Moses said in defining adultery.

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