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Poly Practised Elsewhere
- Thread starter Frank S
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That small cut-out from your comment @rockfox is a really good question. I wouldn't mind some thorough answers on that. Could be a thread all on its own.
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=67213
Not poly-marriage - but a situation just crying out for it.
Not poly-marriage - but a situation just crying out for it.
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Man, that was sad
Man, that was sad
Yes, very sad, especially in the face of pastors and preachers around back then who had a Bible in hand, but wouldn't dare draw attention to the Biblical solution to such misery. Sad much! So much misery could have been alleviated.
The nation of Israel over centuries was involved in so many wars, men died, women were thus in greater numbers.
"God sets the solitary in families" Psalm 68:6 (The verse prior mentions the "fatherless" & "widows")
Notice it does NOT say "God makes a new family with the solitary"
Yes
Single mother households do not qualify as families.
My apologies to all who have found themselves in this position with the help of ungodly societies.
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And once again we see so graphically pictured the damage done when people reinterpret the plain meaning of God's word to make it agree with their traditions. That was such a sad article but thanks for including it here.
You are welcome @frederick. The numbers in that article are astounding, but that was a while ago; we in our day also have some pretty sobering numbers in evangelical churches - here are a couple of links that go into that a bit...
https://www.eidoresearch.com/not-enough-men/
https://blog.capterra.com/where-are-all-the-men-exploring-the-gender-gap-in-church/
What are the excess numbers of women supposed to do? Just add their name to some guy's list who is going through a series of monogamous marriages? Present-day evangelical churches really have no practical solutions to offer for their larger number of women than men. They just talk silliness trying to persuade the women who can't find a husband that they have "the gift of singleness" or, maybe they are more suited to serving the Lord without a husband. Such talk does not at all help women who with normal desires cry themselves to sleep as they hug their pillow knowing it will never hug them back. In defense of the needy, we who know the Biblical truth must not shrink from telling it, even if it costs us.
Edit: Note - I do not endorse all the ideas or conclusions you may find at those links just posted.
Second edit: By what I said above I'm not meaning to disparage women who choose to remain single to serve the Lord - not meaning that at all.
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Here's part of my ongoing attempt to address the situation: https://natsab.com/2019/06/15/where-have-all-the-good-men-gone/
And, I plan to add a couple recent links from this thread as evidence of the case I make.