Isaac a polygamist and a god

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Re: Isaac a polygamist

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Why should it? There must be a hundred possible organizational variations. You can choose all sorts of names for leaders.Hard to think of something less important.
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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Mittens wrote:... and sit upon thrones, and are not angels but are gods.

After the throne, I wonder if these coporeal beings routine includes a shower and shave?
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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moksha wrote:
Mittens wrote:... and sit upon thrones, and are not angels but are gods.

After the throne, I wonder if these coporeal beings routine includes a shower and shave?


See https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+17
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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Isaac had just one wife.


Genesis 25 (NKJV)

19 This is the genealogy of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham begot Isaac. 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian. 21 Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.


While it is easy to overlook Isaac and his role in the biblical narrative, we can learn quite a lot from three aspects of his life that distinguished him from both his father and his son:

· Isaac never leaves the Land of Israel

· he only has one wife and only fathers children with one woman

· his name is not changed


- http://www.reformjudaism.org/isaac-why- ... patriarchs
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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I've always wondered myself why Isaac is listed as polygamous in D&C 132, but we know nothing from the Bible. It's confusing.
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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MetalSlasher wrote:I've always wondered myself why Isaac is listed as polygamous in D&C 132, but we know nothing from the Bible. It's confusing.

There is a simple answer that is not very confusing at all actually.
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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spotlight wrote:
MetalSlasher wrote:I've always wondered myself why Isaac is listed as polygamous in D&C 132, but we know nothing from the Bible. It's confusing.

There is a simple answer that is not very confusing at all actually.



What's that answer? That he wasn't actually a polygamist?
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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spotlight wrote:
MetalSlasher wrote:I've always wondered myself why Isaac is listed as polygamous in D&C 132, but we know nothing from the Bible. It's confusing.

There is a simple answer that is not very confusing at all actually.


If you trust Joseph Smith over the Bible it isn't confusing - But then again the Bible does say trusting your heart is foolish since it is wicked

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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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Mittens wrote: If you trust Joseph Smith over the Bible it isn't confusing - But then again the Bible does say trusting your heart is foolish since it is wicked.

You meant if you don't trust Joseph Smith over the Bible don't you?
But how do you come to trust the Bible in the first place if by any other method than "your heart" since there is no other basis to accept it to be what people claim it to be.
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Re: Isaac a polygamist and a god

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Just take Joseph's word for it people. :rolleyes:
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