Where in Scripture is Sarai's giving of Hagar to Abram ever called adultery?
If the Song of Solomon was written by Solomon and was a guide to marital bliss between two "loves of their lives", how do we explain that the human author, Solomon, had 699 OTHER wives, plus 300 "official" girlfriends?
Think rationally: "Don't even consider these questions! Allowing yourself to question the Bible will cause you to get on a slippery slope and your eternal soul will be dragged straight into the pits of Hell!" Does that reaction even begin to answer these valid questions? If God is omnipotent and omniscient (and we believe that He is), did He "forget" that these questions would exist, given the facts? Did these situations "slip up on" God? Did God fail to plan? Did God not realize that sexual activity was occurring with Abraham, David, and Solomon, with women other than their very first wives? Why didn't He even address this, since the Bible is the very Word of God?
Where is David's marriage to wives 2 - 7 ever called adultery? Bathsheba was wife #8. Was wife #2 causing David to commit adultery? What about 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7? Why did God call the rooftop viewing and his resulting sex with Bathsheba adultery, yet wives 2 - 7 were not called adulterous? After the adultery and murder were committed, why did God allow Bathsheba to be the mother of one geneology line that led to Jesus?
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