Yes I sent back scripture quotes about judgement and how we all fall short of the glory of god. I know my bible better than anyone. I was released from hell for time served in my childhood. Fear not...
Originally Posted by Sonya
I struggle with posting this because I don't want to go down this religious trail but what I've found works with these groups is rhetorical reasoning (of their blind eye) based on important tenets.
For example no amount of whoring is equivalent to killing a man just so that you can have sex with his wife.
2 Samuel 11: 2-15
2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
To make a long story short David called her husband back from war tried to trick him into sleeping with his wife Bathsheba and when he didn't this is what happened next:
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
Something else you can mention goes directly to sex and faith. The people sending you those emails may not realize that the people they look up to all the faithful men of old most of them had literally tens of dozens of wives and literally hundreds of concubines and yet were still considered faithful.
1 Kings 11:1-3
11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2 They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.