No, it means be faithful to your husband. To men it means only, don’t mess with another man’s wife. Nothing wrong with going to whores.
Proverbs 26:
23 For this command is a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and correction and instruction
are the way to life,
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes.
26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
Yes, but it needs to be done with all the same formalities as betrothing with a ring (or the equivalent). Merely having sex does not automatically make them married.
If one truly has free will he would not be punished for it. If I told my child you can go to the movies if you wish, but I don’t want you to go,and if you do I will kill you isn’t free will!
No one can truthfully say they know the will of God ,Just what some other human said was God’s will. even Jesus didn’t know God’s will or he wouldn’t have said," Father,‘IF’ it is your will let this chalice pass from me".
That is not the definition of free will that most people use, myself included. To me, “free will” means that one has the ability to choose a course of action, and the consequences that come with said action. Where there is a threat involved, one has the free will to take the instant gratification and suffer the execution of the threat, or to defer gratification so as to not be subject to the threat.
Well, that’s why divine revelation and belief in true prophecy are so important to most religious beliefs.
It doesn’t mean any thing about divine revelation, just the belief that some human had a devine revelation, and one takes the word of that human. It is true that if you would choose to walk into the path of a running train it would be your will to do so, but it doesn’t mean it has anything to do with the will of a divine being wanting you to do different. Of course most of what we do in this life has a lot to do with our own choice, but if a person harms another, it is not the choice of the victum.No divine being approves or stops the action, just as in the case of Hitler’s taking so many lives because he chose to do so.
True, but the point is that the religions in question DO take these particular human beings as having truly spoken to G-d, so they can be said to know the will of G-d (at least vis a vis the particular prophecy they received).
You can choose to heed or ignore dangers that are readily apparent; you can choose to heed or ignore threats of punishment that you’ve been told come from a divine being. The ability to choose freely is the same, regardless of the source of the possible consequence.
Granted, but the issue we had been discussing had nothing to do with victims. It was about David’s vs Saul’s reactions to being told that they had done wrong.
It didn’t have to do with Divine intervention,just the law of nature, he ended up killing himself! Look how many people paid the price for that one man, had he never been conceived, many good, and innocent people may have made a difference in this world! If I were his mother who knew ahead of time how he would turn out I wouldn’t have been near a man, thus preventing hundred of thousands of people,suffering and dying because of one man’s evil ways.
To me it is humans making laws(some good for the benifit of society and others to rule over some with guilt and fear),has nothing to do with the will of God. Unless of course one looks at the psalmist who is quoted," I said you are gods".
Laws such as in driving etc. helps all people.( But there is no reason to believe they were from God) and some help people live a more secure and happy life. That in itself is why some religions allow several wives or husbands, and some don’t.