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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/how-common-was-polygamy-in-jesus-day.102451/ 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 predominated in the Gk...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    One of the links claimed that Justin Mytar had four wives without giving any proof. https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/P/polygamy-christian-doctrine-concerning.html Justin Martyr: "If, then, the teaching of the prophets and of Himself moves you, it is better for you [followers of Judaism]...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/90888/did-the-early-church-fathers-condemn-polygamy https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-polygamy-accepted-in-the-early-christian-church/309572/12 POLYGAMY And sitting each under his vine, i.e., each man possessing his own married wife. For you...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Early church period The church father Justin Martyr mentions that in his time Jewish men were permitted to have four or five wives,[12] and Babatha was a Jewish woman who was a second wife. Jewish polygamy clashed with Roman monogamy at the time of the early church: When the Christian Church...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    There is no Biblical evidence that any of the Prophets lived in polygamy. Monogamous marriage was used by them as a symbol of the union of God with Israel, while polygamy was compared to polytheism or idolatrous worship (Hos. ii. 18; Isa. l. 1; Jer. ii. 2; Ezek. xvi. 8). The last chapter of...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Chapter 6. The Objection from the Polygamy of the Patriarchs Answered CHURCH FATHERS: On Exhortation to Chastity (Tertullian) To pious and discerning readers of the sacred Scriptures evidence of the chastity of the holy men who are said to have had several wives is found in this, that Solomon...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Knipperdollinck was elected burgomaster (February, 1534) and the city passed under the complete and unrestricted control of the partisans of rebaptism. Münster, instead of Strasburg, was to become the centre of the projected conquest of the world, the "New Jerusalem", the founding of which was...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Chapter 2. Marriage Lawful, But Not Polygamy We do not indeed forbid the union of man and woman, blessed by God as the seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment of the earth and the furnishing of the world, and therefore permitted, yet singly. For Adam was the one husband of...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Heretics do away with marriages; Psychics accumulate them https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0406.htm III. A deacon who commits fornication after his appointment to the diaconate is to be deposed. But, after he has been rejected and ranked among the laity, he is not to be excluded from...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    The recently recovered Code of the Babylonian King Hammurabi (about 2250 B.C.), in its regulations respecting bigamy affords some interesting comparisons with modern legislation on the same subject. By that ancient statute a wife "has no blame" who remarries after her husband has been taken...
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Where friend?
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    WWJD with LGBTQ?

    Deuteronomy 22:27-29 New International Version 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her. 28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he...
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    What did Christ mean saying, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

    As you know Revelation is progressive. We learn more about the truth of any topic by studying from beginning to end. "neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. " from your text, we learn that they do not have any more part "under the sun" or...
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    What did Christ mean saying, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

    Oh just soul sleep again. Isaiah 14:3-11 New International Version 3 On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his...
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    Should one pray video, newspaper or book is true or what?

    https://4mormon.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a4f99596a8b032ee7813124f&id=4a11d4695b&e=14cd6ee419
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    How did Paganism get into the church?

    I did read it ages ago, And, did not think it was worth my time to read.
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    How did Paganism get into the church?

    "This book attempts to shockingly explain why everything you are familiar with in the Christian church is actually rooted in paganism, and is therefore harmful to the believer, but fails in its logical conclusions, that are at best results of ignorant mistakes in data it presents with objective...
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    How did Paganism get into the church?

    Amazon reviews shows that the author is not orthodox. "If it isn't in the NT it is unscriptural." to forbid music in the church. " Frank Viola likes house church. Using the flawed proof texting method that he so vehemently criticizes in the book, he proves that it is the "only" New Testament...
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    How did Paganism get into the church?

    There is lots of trash on that site. Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough is Garbage. " Frazer recounted many accounts of different tribal and historical religions, doing his best to demonstrate that the idea of a god-man, who died and came back to life again, was extremely common throughout...
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    Can Priests Forgive Sin?

    They were taught by the Apostles.