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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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Tackling Tradition 93: Analogical Porneia

According to Bill Mounce, the lexical definition of porneia is as follows. Gloss sexual immorality, fornication, marital unfaithfulness, prostitution, adultery, a generic term for sexual sin of any kind Definition fornication, whoredom, Mt. 15:19; Mk. 7:21; Acts 15:20, 29; concubinage, Jn. 8:41; adultery,Mt. 5:32; 19:9; incest, 1 Cor. 5:1; lewdness, uncleanness, genr., Rom. 1:29; from the Hebrew, put symbolically for idolatry,Rev. 2:21; 14:8 I our previous two articles (Iverson On Divorce & Remarriage) we saw the way Mr. Iverson overlooks the fact that the term “adultery,” like the term “porneia,” is used by God in Jeremiah in figurative, analogical fashion.  In Jeremiah 3:8, God says that he gave faithless Israel a certificate of divorce for her adulteries.    Hosea’s major theme centers on a great big prophetic sign act in which God commands Hosea to marry Gomer who prostitutes herself so much that she is in the thrall of another lover, & although according to ...
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