[ovrtaxt]

My mistake. Still, the verse stands. How is that reconciled by the church? (Perhaps they take it as a prohibition on polygamy?)

[Conservative til I die]

My mistake. Still, the verse stands. How is that reconciled by the church? (Perhaps they take it as a prohibition on polygamy?)

I'm not a scholar or an expert, but I think what you say is a pretty good guess. Putting it back into the historical context of a fledgling Church living in a largely pagan world, and beginning to convert pagans, where sexual and marital morality were viewed differently.