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Grace and peace, beloved of God. I have been a bit of a lurker here on BibFam off and on for about a year while my lovely wife and I navigate the prospect of polygyny with prayer and patience, following a providential answer to prayer late last...

Define what is adultery first: Adultery is sexual contact between a married man and a woman who is married to someone else. If the man and woman are married to each other then that's not adultery. Legally, in the West, only one man and one...

Please contribute thoughts and reasons to help others understand polygyny isn't adultery. This is something that is frequently thrown up against us, so it would be useful to have a thread that addresses the issue.

I'll begin... I heard a guy say David was in adultery for having more than one wife. The guy had just pointed out David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and quite correctly shown this was the sin of adultery because she was the wife of Uriah. He...

When describing what coveting is, we also find a nugget about the definitions of what appears to be adultery as well. David was also guilty of coveting first, then adultery by… “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet...

And these sentiment by Virginia Baptists like George Mason and others is what contributed to Jefferson including the Bill of Rights in the Constitution and promoting, in his writings, the concept of separation of church and state. Baptists...

Howdy, and happy to explain, but it would be difficult to improve upon Mr. Spurgeon’s succinct assessment. "We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the Reformation, we were Reformers before...

That's a good random comment. ;)

Ive gotten to the point where I don’t bother reading certain People’s posts now because I’m very sure the likely hood of them coming up with something of merit is almost zero. when a large proportion of posts degrade into frivolous arguments...

Many will say Jacob (among others) was in adultery for having more than one wife; Leah first, then Rachel, then the two maids. However, in Matthew 8:11 Jesus said Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would be in the kingdom of heaven. Paul wrote in 1...

1 Kings 15:5 ESV: because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. It cites the specific instance of...

No one is forcing the same five people to continue responding to @MemeFan. It seems like his posts irk the same particular group of people repeatedly though, lol

I'll begin... I heard a guy say David was in adultery for having more than one wife. The guy had just pointed out David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and quite correctly shown this was the sin of adultery because she was the wife of Uriah. He...

Please contribute thoughts and reasons to help others understand polygyny isn't adultery. This is something that is frequently thrown up against us, so it would be useful to have a thread that addresses the issue.

That's a good random comment. ;)