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To: Elsie
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 2

24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

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This is said here and in a few places in the bible, and yet He chose Prophets that lived with many wives and concubines.

Does this make him a “do as I say and not what I do” kind of God; or could he be speaking to a particular group of people and not mankind from beginning to end.

1,370 posted on 11/02/2007 9:03:04 AM PDT by fproy2222 (If you want to know the truth, study both sides. To the most original source.)
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To: fproy2222
This is said here and in a few places in the bible, and yet He chose Prophets that lived with many wives and concubines.

Sorry; but CHOOSING is NOT the same as COMMANDING.


He 'chose' a talking ass to get His message across one time. Do you want your Living Prophets® placed into the same sentence?

1,379 posted on 11/02/2007 10:50:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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