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Originally Posted by Starfish
As I said, polygamy is not allowed at different times and in different circumstances. The scriptures in Matthew are talking about divorce. The Bible obviously condemns that, but you seem to avoid that subject.
In Timothy, bishops and deacons are commanded to have only one wife. We interpret this to be saying they must not be divorced. I doubt if polygamy was practiced during that time, as there is no evidence of it.
Originally Posted by uss_bigd
Just answer the qustion on its face value;
LDS explicitly accepts polygamy:
bible( according to you and sola'lor) does not explicitly accept polygamy.
Are they different or not?
Again, the NT does not mention polygamy. When a man marries a woman, then divorces her and marries another, how many wives has he had? Two.
I disagree with #1. "Bible Alone" is a reletively new Christian Faith.
In western New York state in 1827, Smith had a vision in which an angel named Moroni told him about engraved golden plates. Smith allegedly translated these plates into English as the Book of Mormonso called after an ancient American prophet who, according to Smith, had compiled the text recorded on the plates. The Book of Mormon recounts the history of a family of Israelites that migrated to America centuries before Jesus Christ and were taught by prophets similar to those in the Old Testament. The religion Smith founded originated amid the great fervour of competing Christian revivalist movements in early 19th-century America but departed from them in its proclamation of a new dispensation. Through Smith, God had restored the true churchi.e., the primitive Christian churchand had reasserted the true faith from which the various Christian churches had strayed.
Have you compared you Bible with a Catholic Bible lately? The Catholic Bible has more books.
I am assuming you mean mainstream-Christianity as "Historical Christian Faith". If so exactly which Bible are you talking about? Your Bible? If you mean your Bible then it is only "Historical" up to the Protestant Reformation. Before that it would be the Catholics who use a different Bible. And before that there was not even a Bible up to several hundred years after Christ. There were only separate books accepted in different regions.
Pronunciation: \ˌkris-chē-ˈa-nə-tē, ˌkrish-, -ˈcha-nə-, ˌkris-tē-ˈa-\ Function: noun Date: 14th century 1 : the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies 2 : conformity to the Christian religion 3 : the practice of Christianity
Pronunciation: \ˈmȯr-mən\ Function: noun Date: 1830 1: the ancient redactor and compiler of the Book of Mormon presented as divine revelation by Joseph Smith2: latter-day saint; especially : a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
\-mə-ˌni-zəm\ noun
The Catholics also put a lot of weight on "Tradition", of which the Bible is only a part.
You are going to let Webster's define your religion for you???? I don't give them that kind of authority over me.
. In a court of law, it is important to determine the credibility of the source of witness and testimony in determining the truth. Unbiased, neutral sources are very important, don't you agree?The Webster Dictionary is secular, unbias, and neutral. Does it really bother you that a neutral secular source does not consider Mormonism to be Christianity? :sorry1: . Within our debate, secular neutral unbias sources are good!