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[Will Linden]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Ed Brayton wrote:
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>
> You're missing an important distinction here: the Bible DOES condemn murder, 
> adultery and intoxication. It does not condemn polygamy, anywhere. Thus, it's 
> a far more reasonable conclusion to draw that condemnation of polygamy was 
> not a part of that moral code that is allegedly from God. Given that the OT 
> contains an astonishing array of things that it condemns, even in the most 
> minute and irrelevant of things (length of hair, type of fabric one may wear, 
> etc), it is surely reasonable to conclude from the fact that polygamy is not 
> condemned, and that God blesses polygamists greatly and makes them leaders 
> throughout the Bible, that polygamy is not frowned upon from the perspective 
> of the Bible.
>

Not "throughout". St. Paul's injunction is that a bishop must be 
monogamous. Are we to conclude that this is advocated ONLY for bishops? 
And wasn't Solomon rebuked for "multiplying wives"?


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