October 23, 2008

Does G-d Have To Die To Redeem Israel?

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Some believers use Roman 7:1-4 to assert that G-d died (which is impossible) to free Israel so she can remarry her first husband again.

Romans 7:1-4 "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Messiah; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto YHVH."

First we must note that context of Romans 7:1-4 concerns our death to the law so that we can marry ANOTHER, not that we can remarry the same husband.

The Torah states, (Deut 24) that if a man marries a wife then later divorces her, and if she marries another, he can never remarry her, but if she never remarries another then He may again later remarry her.

It is true, YHVH divorced Israel. It is also true she went off to be with others. Whether she remarried is a valid question. Did she? Or was she held in bondage, like a captive slave girl? If Israel didn't remarry, then G-d can undo the bill of divorcement, without breaking his own law. Look at the case of King David; his son Absolom raped his concubines. When David returned to power, he never slept with those concubines again. Israel being defiled with others, the Separated (Holy) G-d of Israel wouldn't take her to himself again. Note, it was Israel that was defiled, not YHVH. G-d would never let Israel defile his great Name.

It was prophesied that G-d would remarry Israel. How could he do this without breaking his own Law? The Law also says that death ends a covenant. If it was possible for G-d to die and and resurrect; he could certainly remarry Israel. But ask yourself. How would this cleanse and purify Israel from her past paramours and adulteries? It would not. But if Israel died and was resurrected, she would be clean and pure again, for at death all is forgiven and forgotten. A reborn Israel would be pure enough for the Almighty to marry. Therefore, it really makes no logical sense for G-d to be born into flesh so he could die, resurrect, and remarry a defiled Israel.

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