Navigating The Bible |
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When Columbus sailed the seas, he had to have some knowledge of the heavens and use some kind of tools to direct him, even if they were crude. Similarly, when a person attempts to learn the Bible, they find themselves looking for answers to questions that have come into their mind. The answers are found sometimes by reading and finding specific answers. Also through reading, laws are found, which establish principles. These principles (or laws) hold to be true through the biblical era of that time. They are closely followed by people seeking to be clean, holy and truthful. They avoid the unclean and abominable. If Columbus had owned a Nautical Almanac, Sight Reduction Tables, an accurate watch, plotting sheets, charts, and a sextant and knew how to make celestial observation corrections, his navigation could have been much more efficient. Instead of missing an island or target by hundreds of miles, he may have been able to come within a half mile or so. Similarly, when Christians study the Bible understanding the eras, and especially the fulfillment era (New Testament), the Bible becomes less confusing and begins to reveal the spiritual advancement of the Bible time span. Things were basic and simple in the first law era. Changes were made in the second law era. Then, the fulfillment of the law era (NT) amazingly reveals to the believer how the first and second law eras lead to God's plan of salvation for all men. Nevertheless, the principles of marital purity and truth are held from the beginning of time until the end. This can be easily seen through studying the marital principles of purity. The mariltal purity laws (principles) of Ex. 22:16, Dt. 22:13-21, 28, 29, Mt. 19:9 are and will hold to be true throughout the Bible.
Many confused and unlearned men professing Christianity throughout history have struggled with the Bible and purity because they never learned how marriage is realated to the mystery of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:25) and the basic laws of marital purity (shown above). You will never have to listen to such men if you learn to navigate the Bible using principles, not heretical men's words or ideas. Building A Foundation I used to work in the construction industry generally as a laborer. I didn't learn enough to start my own business but I did earn some money doing it, even at relatively low wages. Nevertheless, gaining intellectually, I did realize that a foundation was needed for a building. Without the foundation, the building could not stand for long. Also, looking upon other experience I have, a ship that isn't built well will not stand the rough seas for long. When a brick layer puts the bricks or blocks upon the other elements of the building, he doesn't use a glue that has been polluted beyond a good holding consistency. He doesn't lay his blocks upon mere sand; they must be laid upon a foundation that will hold. I know I was not a brick layer but I did work around them when I did carpentry, heat induction systems, plumbing and various applications of construction. Foundations are built upon principles also. Mathematics and physics gives vision of how a material foundation will work. When we learn mathematics, we learn how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Even learning the tools that develop home construction or ship building require the understanding of principles or laws. Now going and progressing further maybe in a more abstract way, the foundation of the biblical (Eph. 5:25) institution of marriage is based upon the principles the Scriptures teach us. The Bible is our manual. We need to study marital principles in order to understand God's will for our Christian reproduction process, which is more physically and spiritually protected through an ethnic, homogeneous community. People must realize that female virginity is a requirement for marriage. The only exception is for a chaste widow. Therefore, for a defiled woman to expect to date someone is a false walk of spiritual fornication (which should be prevented and must be avoided: 1 Cor. 7:2) and disrespect of God's institution of marriage. Our institutions have been polluted due to heretical influence. We must build up that which is weak. The spiritual and clean foundation of the family must be protected and promoted. Beware, Satan wants to destroy families and the clean institution of marriage. “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” (Proverbs 29:18 KJV) We need to build foundations for the Christian family. Homes and homogeneous communities are necessary. Understanding God's cleanliness law is important. However, to begin with, the home is made up of a clean, man and a woman, not an adulterer and an adulteress, not a fornicator and a woman of fornication. Therefore, plans must be made for the males and females we are raising now to remain chaste and clean until they engage/betroth and get married. This takes parents with a life of character that will encourage the youth, parents with the knowledge to expose the difference between false light and true light. In the apostasy that we live in, and the diverse communities that we struggle for survival, a wife must endure righteously for the children's sake, even if it requires self-denial of assets and a better quality of life. Homes built upon adultery are not stable. They suffer inherent betrayal of a first marriage and are terrible. A home built upon fornication is bad also. Nevertheless, and the worst of all, a clean woman can't allow herself to become defiled and continue to live with her husband (Dt. 24:4). She must live as a single or widow because it would break the home up and cause the land to sin if she did not separate. A man cannot live with an unclean woman as such; it is an abomination. Rapists and pollutionists under the name of refugees or immigrants must be disallowed. When women live in unrighteous and unclean homes, the children suffer for the continuing defilement and disgrace. They don't have the honor of other children. Other people look down on a fallen woman and home, and use language that is discouraging. The reason many children turn to drugs, and don't graduate from high school is because of lack of home support! There is even a way a broken home can be resolved to support the children, but the couple can no longer remain together. The children can go with the parent that is best trying to serve God.
Such tragedy can be prevented through learning biblical principle, vision and applying the things you learn from God and the Bible. Christians who aim for the target the correct way apply principles, which become part of their skills. May God bless all who read this, amen. Links: Sex and marriage: Questions and answers |
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