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To: Auntie Dem
I still maintain your aversion to polygamy is culturally induced.

No, it's biblically and decency induced. I don't want a husband who has sex with other women. You want a reason to have a harem, as did your "prophet".

You reached clear back into OT Judaic law. Earth to AD, "Christians" don't practice it. Jesus Christ came in fulfillment of Jewish prophecy. We DON'T follow the old Judiac laws for salvation and we don't continue their cultural corruptions. God made his plans clear with Adam and Eve and Jesus reiterated those plans in the NT.

Now, both your Exodus and Deuteronomy cites are not instructions to commit polygamy, they set down laws within the cultural practice for fair treatment of women is a society which treated women as property.

The Exodus quote in its entirety speaks of the law regarding treatment of slaves, particularly when a father sells his daughter into slavery and IF her master wishes to take her as a wife.

God isn't telling anyone polygamy is a great thing. Moses was merely instructing fair treatment of women in the culture.

Mormon ways are not God's ways. There will be no Divinely ordained polygamy in the future.

You are sick.

213 posted on 02/22/2004 10:30:13 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
We DON'T follow the old Judiac laws for salvation and we don't continue their cultural corruptions.

So you don't keep the 10 commandments? No wonder you are so arrogant.

You are sick.

Physician, heal thyself. Only a truly sick person can completely disregard the FACT that some of God's prophets were polygamists. Whether OT or NT does not matter, isn't God the same yesterday, today, and forever?

The Exodus quote in its entirety speaks of the law regarding treatment of slaves, particularly when a father sells his daughter into slavery and IF her master wishes to take her as a wife.

You're twisting scripture again to fit your private interpretation. Exodus 21 is not exclusively about slaves and servants, even if verse 10 applied to the "Master" or Slave owner, God is still instructing him on the rules of plural marriage--there was no commandment to abandon the practice, because God approved of it at the time.

There will be no Divinely ordained polygamy in the future.

Isaiah seems to say otherwise--See Isaiah 4:1. If he was not predicting a future event please identify when this condition existed in Biblical history. Have a nice day.

218 posted on 02/23/2004 8:37:31 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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