Posted on 04/21/2012 6:41:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I realized my post at 37 could be interpreted as a soft stance on the issues on this thread. That is not the case. Just my thoughts on main priorities so we would not reach the moral nadir. Water under the bridge I fear.
“Legislatively, I think a lot can be done, not by passing new “morality” laws, but by repealing a lot of immoral ones.”
Emphatic agreement! I would love to see a push for restoration in the form of stripping out such legislation.
I didn't interpret it that way...and you do have very good points. There are very proper limits on what an executive or legislature can (try to) do in terms of personal morality.
I remember years ago, when the first mumblings of homosexuality being considered normal behaviour started. Everyone my age thought there was no way on this earth that anyone would actually buy into it. How wrong I was. The acceptance of this unnatural and immoral behaviour has been a real eye-opener. I now believe that anything is possible.
Political correctness is the adult version of peer pressure.
“I am waiting for the day that some men start claiming (using the same argument as the homosexuals) that their attraction to children is their “sexual orientation”, that they are born that way.”
That has already started, and is gathering steam.
Polygyny was very much allowed in the OT. I know that in the Christian era it was considered a terrible sin, but I have to say that never made much sense to me from a Biblical perspective. Abraham had more than one wife, as did King David. Abraham is “our father in faith” and David is the Prophet of the Messiah. How did we get from David “gatting heat” by looking at the pulchritudinous Abishag from polygyny being a moral outrage> Just askin’?
Indeed. I fail to understand why anyone who wants to eliminate the gender requirements for marriage would have any trouble with eliminating the numerical requirements. For all its faults and shortcomings, at least polygyny results in a child’s mother being married to his father.
Why?
One trim, athletic built blonde.
One medium figured brunette.
One lush, full figured red head.
I could live with that.
Polygamy is more natural than Gay marriage—at least its found in the Bible and not listed as an Abomination.
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Polygamy is
Found in the Bible - yes check
listed as an Abomination - yes check
right along with homosexuality..
gay marriage is
Found in the Bible - No
listed as an Abomination - yes check
Both polygamy and homosexuality are regarded by God to be equally forbidden and an abomination..
While polygamy/adultery (same sin by another name) is listed in the Ten Commandments, homosexuality or gay marriage is not..
There is never an excuse for adultery...
God has never sanctioned adultery or if you like “polygamy” and there are no cases of God inspired cheatin in the Bible...
Abraham wasnt told by God to cheat on Sarah
and Jacob wasnt told by God to cheat on Leah...
The closing of Rachels womb by God was not because He was pleased with Jacob..
BTW Joey Smith wsnt told by God to cheat on Emma..
His corrupt lusting flesh told him that..
at least polygyny results in a child’s mother being married to his father.
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Not in this country..
Bigamy is illegal...
Actually, I misspoke. In the OT, polygyny was not only permitted, it was even required in the case of leverite marriage, was it now? I try to be a biblical kind of guy, so why is polygyny condemned in Christianity? I think it’s probably more of a cultural accretion from the Roman world.
Scripture please...
From the Christian Bible..
Where is polygamy listed as an abomination? I’m sure you’re right, I’m just asking for a Bible verse.
As my friend (who’s divorced) would say... “Why have polygamy?? One wife is too many”. I do disagree on that...one wife is just right!!!
But it is as stated in the first GOP platform (1856)
“..”It is the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.”...”!
If you can afford it. Also, don’t forget this old adage- no matter how hot some woman is, somewhere somehow some guy is tired of her $hit.
http://www.openbible.info/topics/polygamy
Moses was a polygamist, so was David, the Patriachs, etc. Check it out. Leverite marriage, where it's actually required, is listed there in Dueteronomy. Very interesting. I have to say that I see nowhere in that list where polygamy is an "abomination", unless it involves the marriage of a mother and daughter to the same man under passages in Leviticus. The clear implication is that it's just fine otherwise. Please tell me where the Bible says that polygamy is an "abomination."
A legitimate argument that polygamy should at least be tolerated based on biblical standards emerges from all that, no? I used to be a Catholic, non-deomonimational now. I recall that Augustine believed that polygamy was permissible in biblical terms, but that Christians shouldn't practice it as there was no need for it in his late-Roman-period world and its practice violated Roman customary law. So, the rejection of polygamy seems to me to be one of those cases where RCC doctrine strayed from the teachings of the Bible to accommodate the secular world.
Where do I err?
One Islamic man + 4 wives = 4+ little bomb carriers per year for 20+ years.
Americans better start having kids again. God Bless the Duggars and those like them.
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