Redeeming Love: What Do Christians Need to Know About It?

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Redeeming Love is a historical romance by Francine Rivers, published in 91. Rivers says that when she became a

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Christian, she began to adapt true Bible stories into fictional romance. Redeeming Love is a retelling of Hosea, set in the

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American Old West. In the Bible, God told Hosea, go take for yourself a wife of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the

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Lord. So he married a harlot named Gomer, who represented Israel's unfaithfulness. Hosea prophesied of the judgment of God, who was faithful to his promise, though his people were not faithful to him.

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The only similarities Redeeming Love has to the Bible story are that the main character's last name is

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Hosea, and he marries a prostitute. Gomer is replaced by Angel, a victim of sex abuse her whole life.

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Gomer and Israel were not victims. Angel catches the eye of Michael Hosea, who hears

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God tell him to marry her. After getting married, Angel runs away and goes back to prostitution, but Michael forgives her and Angel learns true love.

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The story is now a movie, pitched as a Christian film, though it contains nudity and lengthy sex scenes.

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Do not be entertained by sin Christ gave his life to redeem you from. The Bible says, flee from sexual immorality.

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You were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body, even in what you set before your eyes.

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Redeeming Love is a perversion of Scripture and of people. Call out to the

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Lord, Psalm 44, 26. Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love, when we understand the text.