Polygamy

Polygamy!    Is it morally acceptable to have 2 wives? To answer this question, we need to draw a proper distinction between that which is moral & that which is wise.  Matthew 5:27–28 (ESV): You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. As you can see, in the Sermon on the Mount, adultery is not defined merely by the fact that he or she is not your spouse. Adultery is defined by lustful intent. What is lust? Lust is, at its root, the failure to love God over & above everything & everyone else & your neighbor before yourself.  Loving yourself more than God & others is definitional to lust, & lust is what underwrites sexual sin - not the mere sex/gender of your target &/or the lack of marriage certificate.    Using Matt. 5:19 - or any text - to move the moral grounds of moral guil...
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Once! For Everyone & When & Where

Isaiah 53:1–12 (NASB95): Chapter 53


The Suffering Servant

 

 1 Who has believed our message? 

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 


 2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, 

And like a root out of parched ground; 

He has no stately form or majesty 

That we should look upon Him, 

Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. 


 3 He was despised and forsaken of men, 

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; 

And like one from whom men hide their face 

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 


 4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, 

And our sorrows He carried; 

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, 

Smitten of God, and afflicted. 


 5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, 

He was crushed for our iniquities; 

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, 

And by His scourging we are healed. 


 6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, 

Each of us has turned to his own way; 

But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all 

To fall on Him. 


 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, 

Yet He did not open His mouth; 

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, 

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, 

So He did not open His mouth. 


 8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; 

And as for His generation, who considered 

That He was cut off out of the land of the living 

For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? 


 9 His grave was assigned with wicked men, 

Yet He was with a rich man in His death, 

Because He had done no violence, 

Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. 


 10 But the Lord was pleased 

To crush Him, putting Him to grief; 

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, 

He will see His offspring, 

He will prolong His days, 

And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. 


 11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, 

He will see it and be satisfied; 

By His knowledge the Righteous One, 

My Servant, will justify the many, 

As He will bear their iniquities. 


 12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, 

And He will divide the booty with the strong; 

Because He poured out Himself to death, 

And was numbered with the transgressors; 

Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, 

And interceded for the transgressors. 

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