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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    [He is] Originator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a son when He does not have a companion and He created all things? And He is, of all things, Knowing. https://myislam.org/quran-verses/allah-has-no-son/
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    Bill Loader Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church, co-authored with Megan K. DeFranza, Wesley Hill, and Stephen R. Holmes (Counterpoints; ed. Preston Sprinkle (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016)) Jesus in John's Gospel: Structure and Issues in Johannine Christology (Grand Rapids...
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    (15) "On the Numerous Progeny of the Ancients". This work is referred to by Eusebius twice, in the "Præp. Ev.", VII, 8, and in the "Dem. Ev.", VII, 8; and also (Lightfoot and Harnack think) by St. Basil (On the Holy Spirit 29), where he says, "I draw attention to his [Eusebius's] words in...
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    please prove Jews practiced polygamy for another thousand years after the biblical era using primary sources. I do not htink that claim holds water.
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    In the end, my Father had around 17 wives, it was a nightmare. He was murdered going after number 18.
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/90888/did-the-early-church-fathers-condemn-polygamy historical setting: 1. Polygamy was NOT practiced in Greek and Roman societies of the time: "Even though we may find numerous traces of polygamy and polyandry in the Gk. myths, monogamy...
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    But it is the same man and Lord who makes the old new, by no longer allowing several marriages (for at that time God required it when men had to increase and multiply), and by teaching single marriage for the sake of begetting children and looking after domestic affairs, for which purpose woman...
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/90888/did-the-early-church-fathers-condemn-polygamy 1 Timothy 3:2: the claaim that it was common in early church must be documented by primary sources. And sitting each under his vine, i.e., each man possessing his own married wife. For you are...
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    please prove from primary sources alone -- Polygamy was common in the early church.
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    when examples of many wives in scripture, things goes really bad like following false gods.
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    Does the "husband of one wife" requirement mean that polygamy was common in the early church?

    Matthew 19:5 And God said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. And the two people will become one.’
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    Holloween pranks

    A few years ago, I put this flyer on telephone poles at the nearby lake as my lost pet.
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    what is your theory of knowledge?

    what is your theory of knowledge?
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    where in the letters did they literally write Jesus is the Father?

    winner brother what is your theory of knowledge?
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    where in the letters did they literally write Jesus is the Father?

    not demanding proof of a Prophecy, only what the letters say