When god is attached to a text, insisting that the text no matter how silly is inspired by god, it takes on a formidable effect that it does not deserve. Islamic scholars for example raise all kinds of nonsense into immovable laws. Christians tend to project expositions of marraige, sex, etc into the gospels. An example of the latter is Christian beliefs in marraige and family, which I've already highlighted. Jesus made one solitary comment on marraige, more cioncerned with the afterlife than present, that men and women (as he was from the middle-east, mainly women) should have one spouse as confusion would reign in heaven. His view on the afterlife, like the Islamic view, appears to have been materialistic in that he envisaged problems over multiple marraige-who a woman (mainly if not exclusively women) would sleep with if she'd had many husbands while alive. His teaching here was harsh and indicative perhaps of a celibate lifestyle, in that even if a woman was widowed very young she must have no other husbands. This is a view rarely if ever thankfully sanctioned by Christian authorities.
Clearly, god's inspiration is dependent on human intervention!
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