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The Samaritan Woman At The Well Genetics According to verse 9 of John 4, we see that the Jews did not associate with the Samaritans, who before the Assyrian conquest the people that lived in their land were part of the northern kingdom (ten tribes) of Israel. This justified separation was probably because of genetic and theological differences due to the Samaritans had been previously under the treacherous hegemony of Assyria and later the Romans. Many may have miscegenated. All of the Hebrew tribes had been under threat but God spared a remnant. This is evident when Jesus went through Nephthalim: At the time of Matthew there were Hebrew people who had patrilineal inheritance in Israel (Numbers 36:5-13), in Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim. James 1:1 proves that there were twelve Hebrew tribes united after the time of Jesus Christ also. Even though there had been a former carrying-away by Assyria, all the faithful of the Hebrew tribes in Jesus the Christ were brought together through the light of Jesus Christ. Some Samaritans (possibly descendants of the ten tribes) at the time of Jesus may not have lost Hebrew patrilineal descendancy although they were associated with the Assyrians, who conquered and displaced the territory; however, today it is doubtful they retained the consecutive, Hebrew lineage because they speak Arabic, and Islam, which had hegemony over the people for several centuries, does not follow patrilineal law. Nevertheless, the modern "Jewish" do not have patrilineal descendancy, which denies them inheritance in Israel (Numbers 36:5-13). There can be no return of the Hebrews to Israel because they are extinct. Logically, the return was after the time of Christ. (James 1:1) Christians have been misled with myth and fake-Jew return eschatology. Theology In verse 15 she asks for the water that she will not thirst after and Jesus begins in verses 16-18 to give her that living water that springs up by correcting her sexual immorality. He reveals to her that the man she is living with is not her husband, and gives her a brief history of her former marriages but not in depth. Samaritans did not worship the true God because they did not know what they worship (v. 22). However, she did expect the messiah to come (v. 25). She learned that Jesus was the Christ and told her people of her experience. They came to see for themselves. (v. 26-30) Marriage After Death Or Divorce Many wonder about the woman's situation: Was she formerly morally married under the biblical law at that time. It seems she was because Jesus said that she has had five husbands (v. 18). A woman was permitted to marry another man if her husband died. She was also permitted according to Deuteronomy 24:1-3 to remarry if she had a written divorce contract. However, the issue of her immorality is not with the former husbands but with the man that she is not married to (v. 18). The relationship the woman had with the man is mysterious. Was she living in fornication or adultery? It is not directly specified. Adultery If it was an adulterous relationship, her last husband would have been alive at the time of her immorality. Today, many seem to disregard the NT and still go by the OT remarriage law, which Christians consider as adultery. Compare Liz Taylor with eight or so marriages. Fornication If it was a relationship of fornication (I Corinthians 7:2), her last husband would have to have passed or he had given her a written contract of divorce. Whatever the case may be, she did not lawfully marry the man she was living with. What if the Samaritan woman had sex with other men after the five husbands and then shacked up with the last man. Compare Morgan while being unchaste knowingly marrying Paul. Victim Or Willing Participant We don't know her life history after her notifying her community she met the messiah. If the Samaritan woman at the well had been sexually abused after the five husbands, she did nothing about it evidently before she met Jesus. That was her error. Nevertheless, she was awakened to her circumstances and lack of fulfillment. One step out of immorality and into spiritual advancement in morality would have been a confession and admission to break up with her current man. She did not go that far to do that up to the end of the conversation. The righteous are different than the sinful because they confess and repent from their error. A victim doesn't have to continue in sin unless she chooses to. Many abused women in our time need to reach beyond the status of what we know about the Samaritan woman, learn and specifically admit their wrong and bring the end of immorality with works following: abstinence of men while being unchaste. Summary Jesus told the Samaritan woman that the man she was living with was not her husband. He brought her to the living water through pointing out her immorality. After a brief conversation with him, she acknowledged (v. 19) that Jesus knew she was living in sin. Regardless, Jesus Christ brought in the new covenant and remarriage (now adultery in NT times) nor fornication (1 Corinthians 7:2) were permitted according to the message to the deacons (1 Timothy 3:12) and church hierarchy. However, for a woman to have a clean conscience and live righteously she was obligated to repent of her contemporary adultery or fornication and live single. Repentance and living single is a resolve for adultery or fornication. God can give living water and salvation, but for a sinner to repent of her adultery or fornication she must make the personal change of determining to live single. That is reasonable for anyone wanting to live for God and not allow the lusts of the flesh to be more important than living single for God. So, to live single may legally require an illegitimate marriage to be dissolved through divorce or annulment. Under all circumstances, living with the former bed-partner would not be acceptable. Links: Genetic differentiation between the Hebrews and their non-Hebrew neighbors: Patrilineal law An explanation of the deterrent of adultery: Reproof of the redaction of Moses by Jesus the Christ Henry Gruver and The Big Jewish Myth: The Hebrew tribes are extinct. Explanation of what marriage is and the difference between fornication and marriage
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