Christian Right couple think God has memory loss
by digby
I know it’s weird. But if the omnipotent God is having some senior moments (he is very, very old, after all) perhaps they should point him in the direction of the Holy Bible. The Lord used to be a lot more flexible on this question:
Deuteronomy 21:15 – 21:17
15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit [that] which he hath, [that] he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, [which is indeed] the firstborn:
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] his.
Judges 8:30 – And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
2 Chronicles 11:21 – And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
2 Chronicles 13:21 – But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
Genesis 4:19 – And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
2 Samuel 12:8 – And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
1 Kings 11:4 – For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 – If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her. (Read More…)
1 Chronicles 4:5 – And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
The people who put up this billboard are officially with Ted Cruz’s Iowa campaign. They are nationally known poster children for “religious liberty.”
Poor Huckabee and Santorum. Cruz is not only getting billionaires to write huge checks, he’s horning in on the Christian Right crusaders. He’s a comer.
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