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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, it seems rather curious to me that you take the stand you do on polygamy while proclaiming more than once on this forum that you are a Southern Baptist. Being myself a member of the Southern Baptist communion, I want to reiterate a point that I made in a previous post: The Southern Baptist Convention repudiates polygamy. Your stand is thus not representative of the church of which you claim to be a member; one could label it an anomaly or, without going far afield, an hypocrisy. Inasmuch as you hold this view which clashes with Southern Baptist doctrine, and inasmuch as you view churches as man-made organization, why therefore do you even bother to call yourself a Southern Baptist? Do you attend church services regularly? Do your fellow Christians at the church, including the pastor and the board of deacons, know of your views, or are you, as one might suspect, an Internet Lone Ranger who is fairly itching to air the views for which no one else will give you the time of day? As Reformer Joe pointed out, you are a one-subject wonder. The forum has been civil to you, but the time has come for you to cease your monomaniacal pro-polygamy postings. You have had your say, convinced no one, and it's time for you to change the subject or move on. I am not especially inclined to be umbrageous, but in this instance as a Southern Baptist myself, I tell you frankly that I'm insulted that you, in airing your unorthodox views, place them in juxtaposition with repeated affirmations that you're a Southern Baptist. This is a disgrace to the church. --Hank |