Hello Proud Muslim and all
I am a Christian. This is the first time i have been on this thread and the original question have been deleted so all i have are the examples given in Proud Muslims 05-18-04 post. I will deal with the first issue. But first i would like to explain to you all that the bible is a book that records the goings on of People. Not plastic perfect people but real peoples with real faults. The bible records the sins of the rulers and people of Isreal.
Judah condemns Tamar to be burned for harlotry, when he himself had been her patron (Gen 38:24).
Ok lets go through the scriptures and see what is recorded of this event.
Genesis 38
Judah and Tamar
Sons of Judah
1 It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah. 2And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her and went in to her. 3So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. 4She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. 5And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
So Judah had 3 sons Er Onan and Shelah. now lets continue
6Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
So Tamar married Er the oldest son of Judah. now lets continue
7But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD killed him. 8And Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother." 9But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother. 10And the thing which he did displeased the LORD; therefore He killed him also.
It was the custom that if your brother died and he was married without a son then another brother would marry the widow to produce a son for his dead brother. that is why Judah said to Oran to marry Tamar and make her pregnant. But Oran new that if tamar had a son then that son as the eldest brothers descendant would recieve Judah's inheritance so he used the withdrawal method when having sexual intercourse with Tamar to prevent her becoming pregnant. and for that act God killed him. now lets continue
11Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house till my son Shelah is grown." For he said, "Lest he also die like his brothers." And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
Now the only son left for Tamar to have a son by was Shelah but he was young so Judah told Tamar to remain a widow until Shelah grew up. now lets continue
12Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 13And it was told Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." 14So she took off her widow's garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.
Judah had not kept His promise to Tamar to give her Selah to have a baby with to provide a son to inherit Judahs wealth so she devised a plan to trick Judah into doing the deed himself. now lets continue
15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face. 16Then he turned to her by the way, and said, "Please let me come in to you"; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.
So she said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
17And he said, "I will send a young goat from the flock."
So she said, "Will you give me a pledge till you send it?|"
18Then he said, "What pledge shall I give you?"
So she said, "Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand." Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19So she arose and went away, and laid aside her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Now of course Tanar was not interested in getting a goat but she did have her father in laws signet, cord and staff identifiable items that she would use later. Now lets continue
20And Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he did not find her. 21Then he asked the men of that place, saying, "Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?"
And they said, "There was no harlot in this place."
22So he returned to Judah and said, "I cannot find her. Also, the men of the place said there was no harlot in this place."
23Then Judah said, "Let her take them for herself, lest we be shamed; for I sent this young goat and you have not found her."
24And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; furthermore she is with child by harlotry."
So Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!"
Now Judah still did not know that he had had sexual intercourse with Tamar he though he had had sex with a harlot who took His signet cord and staff as payment. So He said "Bring her out and let her be burned!" for punishment. now lets continue.
25When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said, "Please determine whose these are--the signet and cord, and staff."
26So Judah acknowledged them and said, "She has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son." And he never knew her again.
So Judah acknowledge his sin and that even though what Tamar had done was wrong she was more righteous that himself. Both Judah and Tamar sinned because they where humans but Judah revealed himself to all as a hypocrite and was shamed for it even more.
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