Tag: ADULTERY

FORNICATION & ADULTERY

Fornication occurs when an unmarried man and an unmarried woman engage in sexual intercourse. Adultery is when a married man and a married woman have sexual intercourse but they are not married to each other. If an unmarried person has intercourse with someone who is married, the first commits fornication, the second, adultery. God said:

SPIRITUAL WHOREDOM

The prophet Hosea (750 BC) summed up the indictment against Israel in one word; “Whoredom.” Israel had done worse than adultery. As a harlot she had prostituted herself with Baal worship for hire (2:12-13). The people were without knowledge of God (4:6) and ignorant of His law (8:12). Hosea rebuked the people of Israel severely

PARDON REFUSED

In 1829 two men, Wilson and Porter,  were apprehended in Pennsylvania for  robbing the US mail. They were then  sentenced to death by hanging. Later,  President Jackson pardoned Wilson,  but strangely, he refused the pardon!  But can a condemned criminal refuse  a presidential pardon? The Supreme  Court ruled that a pardon is not  complete without