[Mamzelle]

re: It is quite disheartening when I come across Christians who single out those who were divorced prior to being saved as somehow being unfit to marry after they are saved. )))

I'm not getting all judgey on the divorced. I was making the point that if Jesus spoke frankly about divorce being evidence of our "hard hearts"--then polygamy is a similar hard-heartedness. The argument is being made that because the patriarchs were polygamists, that was part of God's plan.

[PieterCasparzen]

I'm not getting all judgey on the divorced.

I didn't think so, I was clarifying more for anyone else who might be reading (many not FReepers), I apologize for not saying that.

The argument is being made that because the patriarchs were polygamists, that was part of God's plan.

[sigh] yes, I agree, of course, it's not a valid interpretation, since Old and New Testaments never portray it as a recommended norm, and in various places (like Genesis 2:24) one wife is either recommended or commanded. Many things happened in the Old Testament that are not recommended or even prohibited, but folks sometimes don't like admitting that.