[Red Badger]

I believe that passage was in reference to Money ( or any other thing that might take up all your efforts, like drugs or hobbies). Serving God and Mammon (the god of money) simultaneously is not possible...........But St. Paul did write that you should be the husband of just one wife. Whether this is him speaking or the Holy Spirit, I don't know. He was noted for interjecting his own personal opinions into his instructions to the churches, and admitted so. I have nothing against someone having more than one wife, if they keep God's commandments and truly love and support their families. This guy, though, seems to (my opinion) be hiding pedophilia under the guise of religious teaching..........

[Vigilanteman]

Intellectually, I agree with your interepretation.

I was just having a little fun stretching things.

I do not discount the possibility that Chritians might be asked to practice polygamy at sometime in the future in response to some catastropic event . . . such as there being too many gelded liberal males and homosexual males (I relize I may be redundant here) and too few available Christian males to provide husbands for willing Christian females. There is even a reference in Isaiah 4:1 as follows:

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

This may be a prophecy that sanctions polygamy under unusual circumstances, but I think it is more likely a prophecy on the unusual circumstances without the sanction.