I think you need to go back and read those Bible stories because you're remembering and / or interpreting them pretty incorrectly. So let's go through a very brief history of love, marriage, and Bible. First off, this idea that you have to or should be "in love with" or feel some attraction to a person to make that person a good marriage partner is only about 200 years old. Really it just started up around the time of Jane austen and other classic romance writers of that period; before that people (at least people who were prominent and important enough to get stories told about them) were much more likely to marry for position, power, money, or political alliances.
Second God's choice of David had nothing to do with how he looked, in fact in explaining his rejection of David's oldest brother (and by implication choice of David) we get the rather famous 1 Sam 16:7 -But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The LORD doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” You could say it was Saul who was chosen because he looked like a king, and look how that turned out.
Esther was beautiful but probably didn't become queen just because of her looks. The less sanitized version of that story is something more like Xerxes former wife refused to come and be on display for a room full of dunken men so she was fired as queen and banished. Xerxes went off to war and got his butt kicked by the Greeks ( I believe that included 300 Spartans at a little battle no one's ever heard of in a place called Thermopylae) and consoled himself by coming home and rounding up all the pretty single young ladies in town for his harem and having sex with each one of them so he could decide which one he liked best and declare her the new queen. Anyone still want a love story like Esther's?
Samson had a thing for Philistine women. They seemed to have a thing for betraying him and he ended up blind and a prisoner because of it.
Joseph was sold into Egyptian slavery by his brothers. Bible says he was good looking and it got him falsely accused by his master's wife and imprisoned. After attracting the attention of Pharaoh and being promoted, I'm not sure how much choice he had in if he was going to marry or who to marry (probably one of those political alliance marriages). But it sure was better than being stuck in prison.
I won't say it's impossible for everything to line up and you to feel immediately attracted to and in love with a person and actually go on to have a long and fulfilling relationship with that person, but that is extremely rare. And I would side with those who assert that this mythology of romantic love as something bigger than two people that fates them to be together and live happily ever after does more to destroy relationships than strengthen and improve them. Best anyone in the modern age can do is realize that relationships require a lot of work, sacrifice, compromise, and commitment and become the kind of person who can fulfill such responsibilities once in a relationship (and then choose who to be in that relationship with wisely).
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Here we go again with those nonsense disagreement u have. Why can't u forget about what I said.
Joseph in fact married an eyptain woman and her name happens to Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, the priest in the city of On.
Even though they come different backgrounds.
I think you need to go back and read those Bible stories because you're remembering and / or interpreting them pretty incorrectly. So let's go through a very brief history of love, marriage, and Bible. First off, this idea that you have to or should be "in love with" or feel some attraction to a person to make that person a good marriage partner is only about 200 years old. Really it just started up around the time of Jane austen and other classic romance writers of that period; before that people (at least people who were prominent and important enough to get stories told about them) were much more likely to marry for position, power, money, or political alliances.
Second God's choice of David had nothing to do with how he looked, in fact in explaining his rejection of David's oldest brother (and by implication choice of David) we get the rather famous 1 Sam 16:7 -But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The LORD doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” You could say it was Saul who was chosen because he looked like a king, and look how that turned out.
Esther was beautiful but probably didn't become queen just because of her looks. The less sanitized version of that story is something more like Xerxes former wife refused to come and be on display for a room full of dunken men so she was fired as queen and banished. Xerxes went off to war and got his butt kicked by the Greeks ( I believe that included 300 Spartans at a little battle no one's ever heard of in a place called Thermopylae) and consoled himself by coming home and rounding up all the pretty single young ladies in town for his harem and having sex with each one of them so he could decide which one he liked best and declare her the new queen. Anyone still want a love story like Esther's?
Samson had a thing for Philistine women. They seemed to have a thing for betraying him and he ended up blind and a prisoner because of it.
Joseph was sold into Egyptian slavery by his brothers. Bible says he was good looking and it got him falsely accused by his master's wife and imprisoned. After attracting the attention of Pharaoh and being promoted, I'm not sure how much choice he had in if he was going to marry or who to marry (probably one of those political alliance marriages). But it sure was better than being stuck in prison.
I won't say it's impossible for everything to line up and you to feel immediately attracted to and in love with a person and actually go on to have a long and fulfilling relationship with that person, but that is extremely rare. And I would side with those who assert that this mythology of romantic love as something bigger than two people that fates them to be together and live happily ever after does more to destroy relationships than strengthen and improve them. Best anyone in the modern age can do is realize that relationships require a lot of work, sacrifice, compromise, and commitment and become the kind of person who can fulfill such responsibilities once in a relationship (and then choose who to be in that relationship with wisely).
Here we go again with those nonsense disagreement. 😒😑
Why cant u just let go what I said or just simply forget about it.
And yes Joseph did in fact married an eyptain woman her name was
Asenath the daughter of
Lof Potiphera, the priest in the city of On.
I never made an interpretation of something. Those are all fact according what the bible say. U on the other hand are making assumptions about some examples I used and giving some criticism.
1 Samuel 16:12
So Jesse sent for him. He had beautiful eyes and a healthy, handsome appearance. Then the LORD said, "Anoint him, for he is the one."
Esther 2:17
The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Esther 2:7
He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. 2 When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.