Where do you think the term "Protest - ant" came from? (I think Protestants these days don't "protest" enough)
Yes I am still thankful that the Lord has restored many of the Plain and Precious Truths.
I see, rather than answer any of my questions, you just pushed it into M.R.A.O.--Mormon Robotic Automatic Overdrive--by falling back on your testimony by reitering this. (All...in case you haven't noticed, it's S.O.P.--standard operating procedure--that when a Mormon can't or won't address your question(s) or when they become imbalanced away from their emotional foundation, they just re-shift & re-utter their common Sunday testimony line. Since LDS emphasize education & learning more than other cults, their "brainwashing quota" is less than other cults...but the most effective "brainwashing" tool they have is the layered testimonies @ meetin' time...repeat something over & over enough, well, it must be "true").
Resty, you really need to answer Metmom's question to you in #1604 & my questions from my last post rather than just falling back on a testimonial line.
You took the time to chide MHGinTN for allegedly not responding to a query from p-marlowe. So be consistent: Answer the questions. You started the convo in bringing it up to me; you made a claim...now you need to back it up.
FWIW the "marriage" between Abraham and Hagar was rather similar to the various plural marriages in the LDS Church. While the Marriage to Sarah was recognized as valid, the marriage to Hagar has not been widely accepted as valid.
The fact of the matter is that there were no legal marriage rules at the time. I would venture to say that if you were living with a woman and had a child with her, then you were married to her. For many years in this nation, that was the law. Modern statutes have eliminated the common law marriage. I frankly think that the elimination of common law marriage was a huge mistake. It has created a nation of bastard children.