Hosea
Introduction

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Women
Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Family Values
Contradictions
Language
Absurdities
Sex
Intolerance
Prophecy
Interpretation
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Hosea for Skeptics

Hosea is a book filled with whoredoms, children of whoredoms, adulteries between breasts, buying wives with barley, ripping pregnant women apart, and killing unborn babies. What will surprise most believers is that it is God who does the ripping and killing and who tells Hosea to buy a wife and marry a whore. Biblical family values at its best.

Here are the highlights.

•  God tells Hosea to "take ... a wife of whoredoms." 1:2-3

•  God talks about whoredoms, adulteries between breasts. He plans to strip a woman naked as the day she was born and to discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers. 2:2-3, 2:10

•  God will not have mercy upon children if they are the children of whoredoms. 2:4-5

•  God tells Hosea to "love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress." 3:1

•  In accordance with God's command, Hosea buys a wife for 15 pieces of silver and one and a half homers of barley. 3:2

•  If you misbehave, God will make your daughters "commit whoredom" and your wife "commit adultery." 4:13

•  Hosea asks God to "give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts." 9:14

•  God assures Hosea that he will "slay even the beloved fruit of the womb." 9:16

•  God will rip humans apart and eat them like a lion. 13:7-8

•  God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and "their women with child shall be ripped up." 13:16