[CS-FSLUG] TD: CS-BibleStudy: Hosea Chapter 1

[Shawn K. Parrish]

I've thought that maybe Hosea wanted to marry her all along... really bad.
So God says "OK... you're going to do this... I'll use it to show my
people..."

Just a Biblically unsubstantiated thought.

Shawn


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> Quoting Nigel Ridley <nigel at i-amfaithweb.net>:
>
> > > 1.) Why do you suppose that God wanted Hosea to live out,
> > > symbolically,  the problems of Israel by marrying an adulterous wife
> > > and having  unfaithful children (other prophets didn't have to do
> > > this!)?
> >
> > To make it plain to Israel that they were an adulterous generation.
>
> Why at that particular point in time though?  People had been sinning
> beforehand, and they've been sinning afterwards as well.
>
> David Aikema
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