To: 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?)
96 posted on
10/23/2005 2:14:57 PM PDT by
ovrtaxt
(You nonconformists are all the same.)
To: ovrtaxt
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.
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