so what of Ezekiel 23 where God portrays Himself as the husband of two wives?
What of the parable of the 10 virgins? 5 were rejected, 5 were kept as brides.
Each of these are portrayals of marriage.
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- Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:58 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Legal complications in Polygynous Marriages
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- Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:37 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Legal complications in Polygynous Marriages
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- Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:49 pm
- Forum: Introduction
- Topic: sprky777
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sprky777
Why am I here? Where did you grow up? Central Illinois and Indiana How did you come to be interested in spiritual things? When I finished college and joined the work force, a coworker pestered me incessantly to join him for church. As an engineer, religion was not scientific or logical. But to appea...
- Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:38 pm
- Forum: Morality
- Topic: Polygyny: Can a man Scripturally have multiple wives?
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Re: it does indeed depend on perspective...
To both Hugh and sprky777: Are you Mormons? I am unaware of any other belief system that would label itself as "Christianity" and profess polygamy (polygny). I'm not a Mormon. Never been, never will be. I became a Christian when I was 20. Being an engineer and somewhat new to religion, I studied th...
- Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:23 pm
- Forum: Morality
- Topic: Polygyny: Can a man Scripturally have multiple wives?
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Re: I have said all that I can say
Incidentally, what passage or dictionary defines adultery to be a double standard for the genders? Romans 7 1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to he...