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Once when Mark Twain was lecturing in Utah, a Mormon acquaintance argued with him on the subject of polygamy. After a long and rather heated debate, the Mormon finally said, "Can you find for me a single passage of Scripture which forbids polygamy?"
"Certainly," replied Twain. "'No man can serve two masters.'" (heehee - j/k) LOL
"Certainly," replied Twain. "'No man can serve two masters.'" (heehee - j/k) LOL
The new testament not leaving room for polygamy is due to the fact that polygamy isn't even around in the setting of the new Testament. Not because it was simply "done away with". They left the area where polygamy was culturally being practiced (and is still culturally being practiced). Why would you give people metaphors about trees when they have never seen or heard of one? And your theological theories would definitely nix polygamy, but unfortunately, they are just theological theories that must stretch to the conclusion that polygamy is wrong, because nowhere in the Bible does it hint that it is wrong for 1 man to have 2 wives.
Am I saying that polygamy is smart? Nope. One wife is more than enough for me haha.
What I'm saying is that equating polygamy to the BIBLICAL STATED SINFUL ACTS of homosexuality and bestiality is wrong in my opinion. If people choose to go that route (which I think is a silly choice), I think it should be legal to do so, just as it was legal in the OT.
I may be completely wrong about the subject, but again my opinion has yet to be refuted with scriptures.
I mean that the Bible doesn't forbid it (except for the special case of Deacons)
Am I saying that polygamy is smart? Nope. One wife is more than enough for me haha.
What I'm saying is that equating polygamy to the BIBLICAL STATED SINFUL ACTS of homosexuality and bestiality is wrong in my opinion. If people choose to go that route (which I think is a silly choice), I think it should be legal to do so, just as it was legal in the OT.
I may be completely wrong about the subject, but again my opinion has yet to be refuted with scriptures.
I mean that the Bible doesn't forbid it (except for the special case of Deacons)
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It is written:
Genesis 2:24 - “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
Matthew 19:4-6 - "Have ye not read, that He [God] which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And [He] said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Mark 10:7,8 - "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they two shall be one flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh."
I Corinthians 7:2 - "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
I Corinthians 7:4 - "The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife." [singular, you can't yield to multiple wives or husbands and become one flesh]
Ephesians 5:31 - "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."
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Your assertions are false. Polygamy was practiced in the pagan world which Paul evangelized and polygamist families did get saved and enter New Testament churches. In fact, in 1 Timothy 3:2 Paul specifically requires that church overseers have only one wife for this reason and the reasons I previously listed in post #19.
My "theories," as you mistakenly call them, are actually the positions of Christianity's greatest biblical historians and theologians.
You are both historically and theologically wrong while the information I shared is taken from scholarly sources (available thru resellers such as Logos Bible Software).
Due to your colossal ignorance on this topic, I'm going to recommend you read introductions such as chapter 11 'Bride-Price? Polygamy, Concubinage, and Other Such Questions' from Paul Copan's 'Is God a Moral Monster?'
My "theories," as you mistakenly call them, are actually the positions of Christianity's greatest biblical historians and theologians.
You are both historically and theologically wrong while the information I shared is taken from scholarly sources (available thru resellers such as Logos Bible Software).
Due to your colossal ignorance on this topic, I'm going to recommend you read introductions such as chapter 11 'Bride-Price? Polygamy, Concubinage, and Other Such Questions' from Paul Copan's 'Is God a Moral Monster?'
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Perhaps the chick was attracted to females. Along with that, she then misinterprets the Commodores....
She's a brick house
Mighty might just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick house...
She's the one, the only one,
who's built like a amazon [pronounced am-a-ka-zawn]
We're together everybody knows,
She's a brick house
Mighty might just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick house...
She's the one, the only one,
who's built like a amazon [pronounced am-a-ka-zawn]
We're together everybody knows,
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