God permitted slavery, too.
Don’t even want to go there....
Exactly. Good point.
As a matter of fact, the notion that God permitted it one time means we are then free to do it anytime reminds me of when my son was young. I had taken him out and taught him to fire a rifle at some targets. He was under direct supervision when we did it. This did not mean, which he discovered later, that it meant to could get the rifle anytime he wanted, without my supervision, and go out shooting.
Thinking that just because something was allowed one time under special circumstances means you thine have carte-blanc to do it anytime is a childish notion.
You may have heard this elsewhere... I have no doubts that this probably has occurred to others as well... but it is something that occurred to me spontaneously, so to speak.
The main thing that convinced me that mormonism was false was when I took notice of the fact that the Book of Mormon is written with Thee’s, and Thou’s, and Begat’s, etc etc. The same sort of lingua which one encounters in a King James Bible. What struck me as odd was the realization that the Bible was written in that manner because in the time of King James everyone spoke that way. That is how English was spoken in that age. However, the Book of Mormon also is written in that form of English, when at the time the Book of Mormon was written English was NOT spoken in that manner, and in fact was much more like we speak it today.
So it occurred to me to wonder WHY it would be written in that manner. It appears to me that the language of King James era was intentionally used to lend the Book of Mormon a greater appearance of “authority”. An attempt to fool us all into believing it is equal to the Bible by mimicking the speaking style. In order to lend it credibility, a form of deception was used. And in the end, I have a real problem with reconciling the notion that God would resort to deception in order to further his goals. Deception is a tool of the other guy.