Jesus and the Woman at the Well, where is Ezra 10?

Jesus spoke in detail about the life and choices the woman at the well made, pointing out she had 5 husbands.

This was a clear opertunity for him to teach her that she must return to her first husband but he did not.

So the question is why the hardline CoC teach something that apparently Jesus himself did not teach?!

Ezra 10 if you do not know involves the Jewish people sending the foreign wives and the children of those marriages away. It was done to maintain the religious purity and the racial purity of the Jewish people.

Because there is no clear answer to what to do with someone in a second marriage the hardline CoC have decided that Ezra 10 is the example we must follow and that all marriages except the first are unauthorized.

But consider this, Jesus called the woman’s 5 husbands by the name husband, he did not say that 4 of the 5 where not authorized.

So Jesus had the perfect chance to teach what the hardline CoC teach but he did not.

Could it be that the keeper of the perfect truth have a few warts after all and are simply a small splinter group?

It would seem so!

Published in: on August 11, 2009 at 8:12 pm  Comments (9)  
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