(October 2, 2012 at 5:59 pm)Godschild Wrote:(October 2, 2012 at 5:23 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: Dueteronomy 23 : 2 says
"2 No one born out of wedlock or any descendant of such a person, even in the tenth generation, may be included among the Lord's people."
Most versions of the bible that I found on biblegateway.com use either "born out of wedlock" or "bastard". The New International Versions use "born of a forbidden marriage" .
Using a bit of binary maths (not math . . lets be civilised), everybody has 512 great great . . .(nine times) grandparents, 256 great great . . (eight times) grandparents etc. Adding all of these up makes a total of 1022 parents/grandparents who can all be counted as a persons ancestor going back 10 generations. That means that every one of those 1022 pairs of ancestors must have had to be married to escape the penalty of this verse. I doubt that even the Queen of England (may God save her) could manage that. Unfortunately this is only a speculation since most people can't get info about their distant relatives.
I know for a fact that my maternal grandparents were never married so, according to this verse, neither I nor my children and their children . . . for about the next 200 years should go to church.
Don't even get me started on Deuteronomy 23 : 1
Regards
Grimesy
This for the Israelite nation only, if an Israelite married outside there people and had children they would not be recognized as an Israelite, therefore not a part of God's people. So Grimesy, off to church you go.
Cop out.
