dtt wrote:
Liberty says they will not accept me because I believe in polygyny.
They didn't ask me, and I didn't volunteer the info. I also didn't volunteer the info that I believe in a literal six-day Creation, a literal world-wide flood that destroyed all land-based air-breathing life except what was on the Ark with Noah, and that the Red Sea really did part to allow the Children of Israel to escape from Pharaoh's army. All of those beliefs which I did not volunteer to tell them are Scriptural Truth. And all of those Truths I did not volunteer to disclose as being my personally-held beliefs are denied by some who claim to be (and in most cases, really are) born-again Christians in spite of not believing one or more of them.
Not sure what might have happened if I already had more than one woman. But, since I would have only one
wife according to proper legal terminology, maybe I would not have had to volunteer that info, either, if it applied to me. (Which it doesn't, yet. I have one woman who is also my
legal wife [we have a piece of paper from the State of NM giving us permission to be "married"], and no other woman belongs to me.) I'm not sure that my conscience would have required me to
voluntarily disclose that information,
if I had more than one woman in a
Biblical Covenant Union.
So far, I am getting straight A's, and also getting highly complimentary comments in email from my professors about my discussion forum posts. (Those forums take the place of being-there-in-person classroom discussions.) I didn't tell the profs that I'm good at writing forum posts because of having extensive experience writing posts on a pro-poly forum!
Wonder what might happen in a few years, when the time comes for me to write my LU Doctoral Dissertation, if I want to write my Dissertation on something like, "Traditional Family Values vs. Biblical Family Values"? Maybe they'll retroactively deny the M.Div. and B.Sc. that they will already have conferred?
I would be quite surprised if there are not a few overseas students at LUO who not only believe in polygyny, but also live the lifestyle, as have their ancestors for thousands of years. But on the other hand, since it has been the practice of the "enlightened" and "compassionate" missionaries from the TFV-MOP Western world to require a polygynist to divorce all but one wife before being accepted into the fellowship and being baptized, thus instantly creating numerous unwed mothers, many of whom will end up as prostitutes in an effort to support their now-orphaned kids, maybe there are no overseas practicing polygynists studying at Liberty University Online.
I would also be surprised if there are not a few professors who are "closet" believers in poly, sort of like Professor Luck was at Moody until he wrote his book on divorce and then resigned rather than waiting to be fired. (His pro-poly statement in the appendix ruffled far more feathers than his radically-different-than-the-TFV-teaching about divorce in the main text of his book.) If there is any such prof at LU, I sure hope that I can make some kind of connection with him. (Or her?) If any such prof exists at LU and I do make some kind of connection with him, it will have to be a "God thing," since there are several thousand professors, and so any such connection is unlikely to happen by chance.
Then, there are a couple of PhD's (names unknown to me) who are either profs at Lee University in Cleveland, TN, or are some kind of officials at the Church of God HQ, also in Cleveland. (Not sure which. They could also be both.) The Bishop who excommunicated me from the COG called these PhD's and asked them where the Bible says that it is a sin to have more than one wife. They told him that the Bible does not teach that explicitly. And I still got the left foot of disfellowship, for agreeing with those unknown PhD's who are apparently personal friends of the Bishop with the Big Left Foot.
Oh, and if any official at LU who has a good reason to know asks me about my belief in polygyny, I will be honest about it and accept any persecution that might follow. (But does anyone there really have a right to know?)
Mark 10:29-30 NKJV So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, (30) who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.
unless they pay you, etc.
