What would you do - Page 4

#1 05-30-2008, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Rico

In the same room? Right next to each other with a board separating them? Uhhhhhhhhh, I don't think I could go for that! Me and the pilgrim wife would have just had to find us a place out in the woods to partake of the marital blessing.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Vaughn

In times like that lets hope you guys are more reserved like me and not toooo pentecostal in your emotions...lol

Yep right in the same bed. People slept very close and in very close quarters on the American frontier and their everyday living styles reflected that. The board was primarily used in adult beds to separate adult couples when they wanted privacy. During extremely cold winter nights the boards could be removed and they would sleep without separation to keep warm. The particular Pilgrim household featured in the documentary film my wife and I saw had a bed shared by the father and mother of the house on one side and their daughter and their son-in-law on the other. Apparently the family’s records and early pilgrim practice was more accommodating at times than I would have thought. I laughed and told my wife, “I couldn’t imagine having your in-laws on the other side of the board in bed right next to you. Talk about performance anxiety!” LOL

#2 05-30-2008, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Grasshopper

Yep right in the same bed. People slept very close and in very close quarters on the American frontier and their everyday living styles reflected that. The board was primarily used in adult beds to separate adult couples when they wanted privacy. During extremely cold winter nights the boards could be removed and they would sleep without separation to keep warm. The particular Pilgrim household featured in the documentary film my wife and I saw had a bed shared by the father and mother of the house on one side and their daughter and their son-in-law on the other. Apparently the family’s records and early pilgrim practice was more accommodating at times than I would have thought. I laughed and told my wife, “I couldn’t imagine having your in-laws on the other side of the board in bed right next to you. How quiet should you be? What will her parents think? Talk about performance anxiety!” LOL

thank God for the outhouse

#3 05-30-2008, 12:08 PM

jl,

I'm not pro-polygamy but the Law of Moses required a brother to marry his dead brother's wife and raise up children in his dead brother's name...even if he were already married.

Let's remember, God permits what God desires to permit when he desires to permit it. For a time he permitted a writ of divorce if a wife just displeased her husband. However, Christ takes marriage a step higher by stating that adultery is the only justification for divorce that allows remarriage. God allowed for many things because of the hardness of man's heart and man's fallen condition. Remember with God there is his "permissive will" and his "perfect will". Polygamy was only allowed under the Law and prior by God's permissive will. His perfect will is illustrated in the monogamous relationship of Adam and Eve. One husband and one wife.

Paul indicated that monogamy was to be embraced as the Christian norm. Now as far as polygmy being "sin"??? Not sure. God never permitted "sin". Surely such families will reap complications for such an arrangement and Paul precludes the husband from being a bishop.

Rico · #4 05-30-2008, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Grasshopper

I'm not pro-polygamy but the Law of Moses required a brother to marry his dead brother's wife and raise up children in his dead brother's name...even if he were already married.

Let's remember, God permits what God desires to permit when he desires to permit it. For a time he permitted a writ of divorce if a wife just displeased her husband. However, Christ takes marriage a step up by stating that adultery is the only justification for divorce that allows remarriage. God allowed for many things because of the hardness of man's heart and man's fallen condition. Remember with God there is his "permissive will" and his "perfect will". Polygamy was only allowed under the Law and prior by God's permissive will. His perfect will is illustrated in the monogamous relationship of Adam and Eve. One husband and one wife.

God didn't permit that, MOSES did. God corrected the bad information eventually.