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Originally Posted by LUKE2447
Rico, how long does it take people to realize that God never says it is and also involves himself in giving more than one wife. Why? Because it is not a sin. All the opportunity he had he never gives a iota or jot against it. Yet, let's ignore all that, say God is a liar and changes his opinion all the time and really meant "this" which he never said. Talking about adding to God's Word and putting words in God's mouth. The argument against polygamy is about as liberal of a interpretation as one can get.
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I think there’s a philosophical disconnect among those who want to list polygamy as a sin. I think they just don’t understand how someone can believe that polygamy is not a sin and yet also advocate in favor of monogamy in our modern culture.
People pigeonhole the Bible. They see it strictly within the current “established” perceptions. Most today apply some very “Puritanical” interpretations of the Bible, especially in the area of marriage and marital relations. But the more I study the more I realize that the Bible is anything but Puritanical. There are marriages, customs, relationships, actions, and entertainments mentioned in the Bible that would shock most people if they really understood them. These things leave scholars scrambling for cover and passionately debating the meaning of various texts.