You are correct, sir; it is the New International Version. I also like the New Living Translation, altho my favorite remains the KJV. Here is the KJV passage:
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Also, wasn't it God who commanded mankind to marry and have children? And wasn't if God who, through the prophet Nathan, told King David that God had blessed him with six wives?
This was the Old Testament Hebrew practice, one of the many that were revolutionized by Jesus of Nazareth, who came to earth to change mankind's understanding of God, and who wasn't crucified for nothing!
Also, see post 26.
>>You are correct, sir; it is the New International Version. I also like the New Living Translation, altho my favorite remains the KJV.
Your intellectual dishonesty here is breathtaking. You “Like” a new translation of the Bible. You then want to hold everyone to a strict interpretation of it’s language. You then dismiss going back to the original source because??? Well you just don’t say.
>>This was the Old Testament Hebrew practice, one of the many that were revolutionized by Jesus of Nazareth
I guess you "like" this unsubstantiated belief as well.
As for 26:
The logic you are assailing is impeccable!
Let’s get the historical order straight shall we?
Abram takes Hagar to wife, has a child by her, has a child by his first wife sari, has a falling out with Hagar sends her away with her son to become the Ishmaelites. Then God asks him to sacrifice his son, Abram is obedient, is called the “Friend of God” has his name changed to Abraham, Sari is renamed Sarah. Abram Takes third wife, with no recorded problems and no loss of Blessings.
If God is unchanging (and he is.)
Then if Abraham Being the “Friend of God” was not a sinner then Polygamy is not a sin now.
Period, End of Story, The end.
Whether or not you “like” it is immaterial.
That said, I think it would take an extraordinary man to successfully live in a polygamous marriage.
I for one am all for marriage, to one wife (all I ever desired).
Polygamy IS biblical, to say anything else is just ignorant, or worse yet willful ignorance.
JM $0.02