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NASB | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God]. |
Subject: Does God endorse polygamy? |
Bible Note: Don, I will give you that neither the Southern Baptist Convention nor its leaders, seminary professors, preachers, deacons, Sunday School teachers -- none of these is infallible in belief or interpretation, but then, neither am I, and neither are you. You have taken a position on polygamy that, in my view, you have failed to defend by sound biblical exegesis. While I, like you, don't place the SBC or its leadership on a pedestal, I am suspect of lone-wolf self-proclaimed 'theologians' who are prone to fall prey to one's own interpretation [cf.2 Peter 1:20]. Consider, please, in contrast to own's own interpretation, one of the functions of Christ' church in light of 2 Timothy 3:16: "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable (1) for teaching, (2) for reproof, (3) for correction, (4) for training in righteousness."..... Jesus said it plain enough and clear enough in Matthew 19:4-6: "And He answered and said, 'Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?" So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.'" ...... To read into this passage any meaning except a permanent, monogamous marital relationship is eisegesis, not exegesis.... A lesbian once handed me a sheet of white paper. Seeing that it was blank on both sides, I asked her what it was all about. She answered me that this sheet of blank white paper "proved conclusively" that the Bible did not condemn homosexuality, because that sheet of blank paper contained every word that Jesus ever said about homosexuality. Did she make her point, prove her case, present a convincing argument? No, not to me she didn't. And regarding your argument that the Bible endorses polygamy, neither have you. --Hank |