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The doctrine of the Elect is hogwash. Nowhere in Scripture does it say souls can sin before they are placed in a body, only that Elohim is aware of the path that each person will travel before they do so. Construing that as "sin before birth" is ridiculous.Sure is. Don't you know the doctrine of The Elect?
He used complex concepts and simple words to describe them, as well as metaphors the common man would quickly glom onto (mustard seed, weddings, farming, etc). The metaphors and parables used in the NT are meant to encourage the layman hearing His words to ponder deeply upon them and seek out the meaning, but a layman wouldn't have the resources to look up the specific meaning of porneia that you're alleging-- hell, a lot of peasants didn't even know how to read.Better exegesis, but I'll answer the conclusion of your writing: "Yeshua would have used that word since it was more common".
I disagree with that notion. Yahushua spoke to people in parables, often concealing the true meaning so that if they didn't have "ears to hear" or "eyes to see" they wouldn't understand.
Yes, Yeshua was speaking to the Pharisees in that conversation, but if we're going with the idea that Elohim and by extension Yeshua were aware His words would be captured and translated, your idea still makes zero sense. "Thou cannot divorce thy wife except in the case of porneia" is an essential concept and would have to be delivered in the most straightforward way.
Anyways, porneia would have been commonly recognized as the word for adultery, and considering that the rest of the conversation wasn't a parable it wouldn't make any sense for Him to suddenly obfuscate His meaning by using a much less common word. Strongs 1495 (I'm not looking up how that's spelled) is more colloquial, therefore porneia = idolatry makes no sense in context.
Tl;dr you're wrong
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