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To: P-Marlowe

How about in the NT when the lady with several husbands came to Jesus to be healed. He asked her who her husband was and she replied, “no one”. He said that was so and for her to go and sin no more. My brain is not working at its best since I am in so much pain but someone out there will know what I am talking about. Polygamy is not condoned anywhere in the Bible.


2,284 posted on 04/10/2008 5:28:00 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: MamaB
How about in the NT when the lady with several husbands came to Jesus to be healed.

I think you've got your stories mixed up. You are undoubtedly referring to the woman at the well. She did not come to Jesus. Jesus actually went to the well to meet her. :-)

John Chapter 4.

2,286 posted on 04/10/2008 5:38:02 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: MamaB; P-Marlowe; DelphiUser
How about in the NT when the lady with several husbands came to Jesus to be healed. He asked her who her husband was and she replied, “no one”. He said that was so and for her to go and sin no more. My brain is not working at its best since I am in so much pain but someone out there will know what I am talking about. Polygamy is not condoned anywhere in the Bible.

What's interesting when you visit the pro-polygamy Web sites, is that they will cite any Biblical figure who has had two wives--even if he married them serially (silence, for example, over when the first wife died). By that logic, the account you cite, MamaB, would take on quite an interesting interpretation: "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." (John 4:17-18)

(The pro-polygamists would conclude that she had some of those husbands simultaneously; ergo, she's polyandry; therefore, Mormon women should practice polyandry if they so choose...'cause, after all, DU assures us, plural spouses is "moral!")

2,562 posted on 04/11/2008 9:02:59 PM PDT by Colofornian
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