Can we leave Eleanor out of this conversation?
Posted on 05/21/2004 8:17:15 AM PDT by Joe Republc
All what you say is obvious. And yet you did't read it anywhere. Now take your conclusions !
And I try my best to meet every glance. :^)
Triplets?
Can we leave Eleanor out of this conversation?
What !??? Why, that's....UNNATURAL !! ;)
The book of Timothy says a bishop should marry only one woman. But it doesn't directly say this about all believers.
However, the Bible provides a lot of illustrations of how messed up situations involving polygamy became. But, no, I don't think the Bible directly prohibits polygamy.
-- Joe
P.S. I have more to say on this later. Glad the thread is being picked up. I seriously wonder if we REALLY SHOULD pick a day (June 21?) to flood the emails, faxes, and phonelines of Peter Jennings, Barb Streisand, and their ilk demanding polygamy.
They could conspire against you!
WAY to busy...
Speaking as a man with 5 daughters, all I can say is, you are absolutely correct !!
Shhhhhhhhh!!!
The question of the day, "Do you have a cave and did you build you own bathroom?"
The Bible DOES say something against a woman having more than one husband, as well as a husband having more than one wife....Hint - it's in Genesis and it has something to do with one flesh.
Careful here, they wouldn't see the sarcasm, thay would take it seriously, or as a challenge.
Also, the patriarchs having more than one wife (they were not sinless as far as I know) have no bearing on it. "The former times of your ignorance God winked at, but now he commandeth all men everywherer to repent"
That was a fun post of yours to read. You are right but wrong. Gloria Steinem declared long ago that "biology was not destiny". And she cut off her own lips by getting married recently. (ha!). Anyway, all women are competing for the alpha male; and every guy is trying for either the best fantasy dream-cum-true to occur (or simply to occur). That's the correct answer to your bar scenario. Of course, given that it's all boiled down to "just about sex". How would a woman know? lol.
I disagree, what if the guy has like 30 children and then cant support them? Then they will all suck off my paycheck for welfare... Doesnt work in this day and age anymore. 500 years ago, hey great, nowadays, nope wont work.
I have a travel trailer out back ;)
. . . .well, after the animal-rights people get their way in the courts. . .
Yes, it does.
Did the patriarchs practice bestiality?
Does the Mosaic Law condone the practice of bestiality?
If you see any moral equivalency between bestiality and polygamy, then you will have to argue with someone else.
I don't argue with people who deny the obvious.
oh sure... bring politics into this... (grinnnnnnnn)
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