"When the Lord says all they heart, it allows for no sharing nor dividing nor depriving. [...] The words none else eliminate everyone and everything. The spouse then becomes preeminent in the life of the husband or wife, and neither social life nor occupational life nor political life nor any other interest nor person nor thing shall ever take precedence over the companion spouse. [...] Marriage presupposes total allegiance and total fidelity. Each spouse takes the partner with the understanding that he or she gives totally to the spouse all the heart, strength, loyalty, honor, and affection, with all dignity. Any divergence is sin; any sharing of the heart is transgression. As we should have 'an eye single to the glory of God,' so should we have an eye, an ear, a heart single to the marriage and the spouse and family." (Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 142-43)
What do you think? Speaking as a man?
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
I think you could find similar statements in a doctrinal venue. In and of itself it doesn't speak to the doctrine of plural marriage or give a clue to SWK's personal thinking on the matter in any way unless it's to multiply (pun intended) the work and responsibility of the man.
bcspace wrote: In and of itself it doesn't speak to the doctrine of plural marriage or give a clue to SWK's personal thinking on the matter in any way...
This implies that monogamy is the only way:
SWK wrote:Any divergence is sin; any sharing of the heart is transgression.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
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Juliann tried to pull this trick but with a better video. I called her bluff. the practice of it is certainly not doctrinal today. But the doctrine of plural marriage remains which is it was legit in the past and may be permissible in the future.