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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
Look, here's my honest injun opinion, and YES, I am playing semantics:
You know the allowance for divorce based on adultery? In my opinion, the biblical ideal is for a person to FORGIVE their errant spouse and remain with them. BUT, I believe God understands that a person may have the inability to remain in such a relationship and makes allowance for it, since the covenant has been broken. He does not always expect us to live up to His ideals, and even makes rules for how we should handle ourselves when we do not.
I believe polygamy lies outside God's ideal and plan for the home and marriage. I believe the same about slavery. I do not understand why God didn't condemn either practice, and I acknowledge that He did not, but I do not believe either practice falls into line with other commandments given by God in both the OT AND the NT.
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I think that's a balanced opinion. But God appears to not only allow for polygamy...he required it in the case of Liverite marriage. Why didn't God just reveal his ideal plan?
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