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What adultery actually is according to Scripture — and what it is not.
A Beit Din of Torah-keeping elders renders public judgment in the matter of Scott Smith v. Christianna Renae Byrd and Grant Easter. After roughly 200 hours of investigation, the panel finds Byrd and Easter committed adultery under Leviticus 20:10 and rules on repentance and separation.
Part 1 of a Berean response to HonestYouthPastor’s case against biblical polygyny: testing his 1 Timothy 4 “doctrine of demons” claim, the Rachel and Leah “dysfunction” charge, his 2 Samuel 12 “property transfer” reading, and Matthew 19’s one flesh.
After Pastor Rich Tidwell publicly took a second wife and broke the internet, four men test the monogamy-only doctrine against Scripture and ask where the ban on biblical polygyny actually came from.
A Berean response to Mark Driscoll’s list of forbidden sexual acts. The top three — fornication, adultery, polygamy — collapse once you trade Webster’s definitions for the Torah’s. Get the definition of adultery right and the rest of Scripture falls into place.
Have you been told that merely glancing at a beautiful woman is adultery? This study takes Matthew 5:28 back to its context — the Greek epithymeō, the word gunē (“wife”), and the Torah’s definition of adultery — to show Yeshua was forbidding coveting another man’s wife.
In Genesis 20, God warns a married king he is a dead man — but for taking another man’s wife, not for being polygynous. We slow down through the chapter to show why the sin hangs on the woman’s marital status, and why God then blesses the king’s household.
A close study of how Scripture actually defines adultery. The law in Leviticus 20:10 hinges on a married woman: an adulterer is a man who takes another man’s wife. This “Rosetta Stone” reframes marriage, divorce, and why the laws for man and woman differ.
A Berean reply to Once Lost Ministries' case against polygamy. Their myths about Abraham, David, and Genesis 2:24 are tested against Scripture, exposing eisegesis and the failure to show one verse forbidding plural marriage.
As with everything, context matters. What is the context of this passage? Let's back up one verse to find out, the majority of people who use this verse as a monogamy-only proof text fail to include the verse prior to it which sets the context.
If you tasked me with proving polygyny is righteous and limited me to one chapter in the scriptures, it would be a difficult choice, but I believe I'd ultimately go with Genesis 20. If you breeze through this story without actually considering the details, you will likely miss it. Let's spend a…
Does “husband of one wife” forbid polygamy? Part 2 answers the invented “sub-creational sin” category, the 1 Timothy 3:2 elder argument, Calvin and Chrysostom, and shows from Abimelech in Genesis 20 that adultery is taking another man’s wife — not taking a wife.
Taco Talks claims polygamy is never condoned in Scripture and that men like Solomon, David, and Jacob were committing rampant adultery. This response tests each claim against the text — and shows that getting the definition of adultery wrong is what breaks the whole reading.
Have you asked, what is adultery? In truth I would be willing to wager that nearly everyone personally knows someone accused of, or someone who has actually committed adultery at some point in their lives. All sin is terrible, but adultery is one transgression of the law (sin) that is worthy of…
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