[ravenwolf]

Will you at least agree that having “many wives” leads a man’s heart astray from God?

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Definitely, even as old as i am just looking at one pretty woman will lead my heart astray momentarily,, it takes a lot of self control.

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Therefore, could you at least condemn those Mormons who have violated this?

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the KJV puts it a little different.

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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Your version is talking about taking sisters as wives, the KJV seems to be talking about taking two sisters to bed at the same time.

So if they both mean the same thing then i would have to agree.

As far as condemning them, i would have to be sure in my own mind, some things i am sure of and other things i am not sure of.

When i first became what i thought was a Christian i was one of the most critical sobs in the country but after doing some reading i found that i was not a Christian at all but only trying to be religious.

Believe it or not i used to condemn the Mormons but that was before i really starting being a believer, now the only thing i can find against them is religion.

If the Mormons still practiced polygamy i think i would look at it different but they don,t.

I believe polygamy is an issue only as long as it is preached and practiced as a religion and i have never heard any one publicly preaching the right for plural wives.

I definitely have my views about things, but it mostly is my own taste so to speak, for instance i hate to see a man wearing shorts,( baby britches ) but can i condemn them? no because i see no law of God against it.

I think one thing we can agree on is the 10 commandments although we may have a little difference of opinion on the exact meaning.

For instance i believe thou shall not kill is incorporated with thou shall do no murder and shall not kill with out cause.

[Colofornian]

If the Mormons still practiced polygamy i think i would look at it different but they don,t. I believe polygamy is an issue only as long as it is preached and practiced as a religion and i have never heard any one publicly preaching the right for plural wives.

(a) A Mainstream Mormon leader -- Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie -- said polygamy would resume when the Mormon jesus comes back. (That is elevating it as a lifestyle...McConkie referenced it as a "holy practice")

(b) Mainstream Mormons do "preach it" so to speak within their policies, claiming eternal polygamy for men who marry multiple wives in their temples.

(c) Mainstream Mormons do "preach it" because its original "revelation" on the subject -- Doctrine & Covenants 132 -- was never rescinded.

(d) The "cousins" of Mainstream Mormons -- the fLDS -- are Mormons, too. And they BOTH "preach it" AND openly live it.

[Elsie]

I believe polygamy is an issue only as long as it is preached and practiced as a religion and i have never heard any one publicly preaching the right for plural wives.

My own issueness of it lasts a bit longer than that; since it is indelibly imprinted in MORMON 'scripture'.

Whether the 'religion' NOW practices or preaches it is of NO concern at all; for in CAN be picked up again IN AN INSTANT!

[Elsie]

I think one thing we can agree on is the 10 commandments although we may have a little difference of opinion on the exact meaning.

Let's see:

To WHOM were they given and NOW to whom do they apply?