tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61456762011-04-21T21:37:17.920-07:00BiblePolygamy.blogspot.comExamination of Polygamy From A Biblical Perspective.Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145676.post-1163443947165052692006-11-13T10:52:00.000-08:002006-11-13T10:52:27.176-08:00ChapmanForPresident08.comGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145676.post-1072095771180727032003-12-22T04:22:00.000-08:002003-12-22T04:23:06.510-08:00Hi Melanie,
I agree 100% with your thoughts. I'll post them on the blog.
Gene
Hi Gene, this is Melanie, Robert's wife. I enjoy a good debate with someone who will listen to someone's opinions other than their own, and be open minded enough to give them some thought. I have read, with an open mind, your thoughts on polygamy and have a few that I'd like to throw into the ring.
Robert Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145676.post-1071200807891991382003-12-11T19:46:00.000-08:002003-12-11T19:47:00.170-08:00"One Wife"
Since I stirred so much controversy last week in my sermon entitled, "Polygamy," I felt this would be a good time to explore the qualification of both a bishop and a deacon to be the husband of "one wife."
We read in I Timothy 3:2, "A bishop (ie. pastor) must then be blameless, the husband of one wife." And in I Timothy 3:12, we read, "Lets the deacons be the husbands of one wife."Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145676.post-1070136789141918622003-11-29T12:13:00.000-08:002003-11-29T12:39:18.876-08:00You, David, make the following third assertion:
"Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Repeated several times in the New Testament:
Matthew 5:27
Matthew 19:18
Romans 13:9
A concubine, by definition (even your definition), would most certainly
be outside of wedlock, and that makes the relationship a sin of
adultery."
Ok David,
To answer, a concubine is a type of second teared Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145676.post-1070136738258465642003-11-29T12:12:00.000-08:002003-11-29T12:12:27.836-08:00"Polygamy"
Polygamy is the state of having more than one wife or concubine.
Years ago at Baylor University, I was a scholarship student studying undergraduate Law, but my focus was to become a lawyer/ preacher like the Father of The Reformation, Dr. Martin Luther, with whom I'd been compared by the American Press back in 1986 and 1987, as I'd challenged Pope John Paul II's Catholic theologicalGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.com