Polygamy in the Bible

Originally Posted by Dora

If this is the mindset of the majority of men on this site, then I don't want any part of it.

Would you rather us have your mindset? The mindset that something is wrong because it doesn't set well with you even when there is NO SCRIPTURE whatsoever condemning such practices? Would you rather us just agree with you rather than say "No sister, we do not practice Polygamy not suggest it but according to Gods Word we cannot CONDEMN it neither such as you are doing"

What should we do?

[Dora]

The next thing ya know, all the women on here will be wearing pastel prairie dresses and wearing their hair in french braids and allowing their 15 yr old daughters to marry their 65 year old prophet in order to father children to propagate their twisted version of the gospel.

[TK Burk]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

right... many membered, but one body. Your wife is allowed all her fingers, toes etc...

Funny, all those fingers and toes are all connected on my one wife. Hmmm.... I didn't think I was that bad with math???

Let's see....

1 Corinthians 12:12-13
(12) For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
(13) For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Looks like ONE to me?????

[Dora]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Dora, in all fairness... NO ONE is advocating polygamy on this site. No one.

Really? That's not what I'm getting...

Dr. Vaughn thinks the 8 million single women out there would benefit from being the wife of a shiek in a harem so that they would have the status and protection of being an actual "wife." Wow! sounds lovely.

Dora, would you advocate a man forsaking a woman and her child to the mercy of the world or being responsible and taking them into the home and adding them to the family to be cared for?

Do you realize that in the majority of countries in this world Polygamy is ACCEPTABLE

[LUKE2447]

Originally Posted by Dora

If this is the mindset of the majority of men on this site, then I don't want any part of it.

Sorry but truth does not shade away because your feelings of being lowered or whatever you issue is with polygamy. The fact is nothing is wrong with it God gave it and said nothing against it in all the times he could have said something and cursed the men of Israel and others. Yet not a Word.

Somehow you want us to ignore scripture because basically you don't like what it says and more than likely it makes you feel like if true you lose control or power. It is what it is!

Originally Posted by Dora

The next thing ya know, all the women on here will be wearing pastel prairie dresses and wearing their hair in french braids and allowing their 15 yr old daughters to marry their 65 year old prophet in order to father children to propagate their twisted version of the gospel.

No one should be married underage,.,, although my great grandmother, grandmother and mother were..... it was rather common in those days

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by Dora

The next thing ya know, all the women on here will be wearing pastel prairie dresses and wearing their hair in french braids and allowing their 15 yr old daughters to marry their 65 year old prophet in order to father children to propagate their twisted version of the gospel.

Not in any way going to defend polygamy, but that is a warped version of polygamy. And absolutely no one has defended that sort of thing anywhere.

Polygamy *was* practiced in Bible times. It *is* part of the culture, customs, and history of that people at that time. I've seen some discussion about that. I've seen some discussion about non-religious polyamory (ok, so not since last night..but I haven't read every single post either). I've seen some joking around. But I have not seen one single person say that what you're talking about is something they would support or practice.

[TK Burk]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Also people are proof texting without looking closely to the details. For example Jesus characterized himself as a groom receiving multiple brides (polygamous)....and Paul admonished Bishops to have only one wife (implying that polygamy had to be present in the early church to warrant this standard).

Please, where in the Bible does Jesus do this?

[Dora]

What is really blowing my mind is that no one has pointed out that polyamory - where there are multiple partners engaging in hetero and homo-sexual relations within a marriage-type relationship is NOT acceptable biblically. Where is the objection to this? I asked a question earlier regarding this and received a few eye-opening answers that prove to me that some of the guys on here are real sickos.