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Are There Other Kinds of Polygamy Besides 'Sister Wives'? It Doesn't Stop with the Browns
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| July 6, 2014
| Caitlin Gallagher
Posted on 07/07/2014 10:01:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; MeganC; GeronL; riri; Army Air Corps; Norm Lenhart; BCW
The Possibilities....are Limitless....
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:13:32 AM PDT
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KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:15:02 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: KC_Lion
That post brought a tear of joy to my eye.
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:15:11 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:15:28 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Alex Murphy
No. I’m good. Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:21:33 AM PDT
by
laotzu
To: Sherman Logan
Abraham had a wife and a concubine at the same time, hardly an improvement in modern eyes.In modern times he would have had a surrogate. Abraham's wife initiated it.
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:24:52 AM PDT
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Raycpa
To: KC_Lion
Hope you are rich and like in-laws.
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:27:06 AM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Raycpa
True. Not claiming Abraham behaved badly, by the standards of his time.
You can read all through the OT, and not find a trace of the notion that a married man is obligated to be sexually faithful to his wife. Adultery in the OT is defined as sex with a married woman other than your wife. NOT as a married man having sex with an unmarried woman.
The NT is, of course, quite different in this regard.
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posted on
07/07/2014 11:37:29 AM PDT
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Sherman Logan
(Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
To: Sherman Logan
I'm not claiming Abraham did not "behave badly". He took measures into his own hands when God promised otherwise. Based on Abraham's advanced age and his desire for offspring and his wife's solution it seems apparent that up until lying with Hagar he only had sex with his wife. My claim is Hagar was not a wife or a lover in modern terms but rather a surrogate chosen by both wife and husband. We also have no mention of Abraham have relations with anyone but his wife or Hagar.
Scripture (Gen 16) follows:
Hagar and Ishmael 16 Now Sarai, Abrams wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her. Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
Wikopedia defines surrogacy as follows:
A surrogacy arrangement or surrogacy agreement is the carrying of a pregnancy for intended parents.
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07/07/2014 11:51:55 AM PDT
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Raycpa
To: KC_Lion
To: vladimir998; Army Air Corps; GeronL
2ne1 Works Too!
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posted on
07/07/2014 1:13:19 PM PDT
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KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
07/07/2014 1:19:26 PM PDT
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GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: KC_Lion
To: vladimir998
Yes even after the scandal :'(
I still like Bom though
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posted on
07/07/2014 4:02:02 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
I’ll take the 5th and 6th from the left. The rest of you can have the others. I claim them by by Constitutional right to pursue happiness.
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posted on
07/07/2014 6:32:30 PM PDT
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Norm Lenhart
(How's t+.01hat 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
To: Sherman Logan
BTW, what up with this stuff about polygamy being "rare" among Jews? Being monogamous and a Gentile, I wouldn't have a clue one way or another.
My guess is that he's probably talking about contemporary Jews, to the exclusion of Old Testament kings.
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posted on
07/07/2014 7:44:38 PM PDT
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BwanaNdege
( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
TY, saved for later reading.
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posted on
08/12/2014 10:01:47 PM PDT
by
doc1019
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