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(kriss;9025) question here if in your wedding vows you promise to forsake all others and cleve only to one another are you not breaking those vows if you marry another? There are no wedding vows as are spoken in many weddings, recorded in scripture. Scripture does not even contain a mandate...

(SwampFox;9008) "You're constructing the hedge, not me. It's not there." Yet you say this:(SwampFox;9008) "Monogamy is the ideal when it comes to man and woman, but that doesn't mean polygamy is a sin." We do not agree. Neither Monogamy or Polygyny or being single are ideals, they are plans for...

(SwampFox;9003) That would be correct. We have the type of two set before us by God, but there is nothing there against polygamy as an outright sin. Swamp, the first marriage had to be one of two different types. Either it was to be Polygynous, in which case do we see that as Ideal and all...

(SwampFox;9001) "Then we are in agreement." So, Swamp, does this mean that as far as your concerned, there is no inherent wrong in the practice of Polygyny?

It is my belief based on other verses in which similar phrases are used, that "Sons of God" is a synonym for "Human Males" and "daughters of men" a synonym for "Human Females".This is based in the order of creation. Adam was directly created by God and termed a "son of God", Eve (a female) was...

(Prometheus;8993) "I was raised as a Mormon and anyone here who knows about this religion will know that they believe polygamy is actually commanded by God." The LDS faith is false. There are situations in which God did command Polygyny of his people, but they were not blanket commands to all...

(Prometheus;8987) "Fair enough. That doesn't change the fact that God thinks blasphemers, adulterers, disobedient children and fortune tellers are worthy of death. Or has God changed His mind since then?" No, but he has appointed those that bear the sword as ministers of God to deal with them...

(Prometheus;8983) Have you ever stoned anyone? I am not Hebrew, nor do I live under the earthly rule of an anointed King of Israel or Judah, nor do I live in the Promised land. I've also read Deuteronomy.:naughty:

Too late, I've also read Deuteronomy the same number of times.

:bible: (Prometheus;8976) "If any of you truly believe God's laws and commandments should be followed over Man's, then, please, don't ever read Leviticus." Too late, I've read it 30 + times.

Polygyny. Yes.

(Savate;7804) "I bring this up because in my discussions with a minister friend, his defense of 'tolerance' is always 'well adultery is mentioned as a sin more than polygamy or homosexuality, so why do we no condemn adultery'." Except that adultery IS mentioned as a sin, so is homosexuality, but...

Swamp, let me preface this by saying I really don't want to be argumentative, but this is an important subject. I don't think debate constitutes acrimony and I hope you see it the same way.(SwampFox;7607) "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam with Eve, Sue, and Shirley to be his wives." Swamp...

(kriss;7604) "...we are told to obey the civil laws unless they go directley against Gods Laws. Even Jesus followed Roman laws of the time." We are to obey the laws up until the point where they tell us to disobey God. I would say that is a situation that rarely occurs, but does. Certainly no...

That would work for me kriss, and I do that, however that does not speak to the issue of it being right or wrong in and of itself. If for instance we were to move to a country that didn't forbid it, what then? There are many Christians in countries that do not forbid Polygyny. It may not be...

I think in evaluating the view of Israelites regarding marriage you have to be brutally honest first, with yourself.Do any of you seriously think that there was ONE Israelite who regarded what we now call "Polygyny" or "Polygamy" as anything other than one of the normal family configurations...