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Poly Practised Elsewhere

https://lbt.org/husbands-love-your-wives-by-chris-pluger/

Interesting how anti-poly thinking will move some people to do imprecise rendering in translation of the scriptures. I'm thinking there will be a day of accounting for that. In addition, I wonder what the people who eventually have that completed translation in their own language will think when some of them have skills developed enough to study and know what the Greek actually says.
 
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These two links are not from elsewhere, but worth a look.
Pat Robertson seems to see part of the picture, but unfortunately, some blindness remains.
He has the skills to know better, but I think he doesn't want to alienate too many people by telling the whole truth.
I'll give him credit for seeing farther than a lot of others.
I know a pastor who preaches about Abraham's (supposed) adultery. I'd call that a false accusation.
At least Pat Roberson has got it figured right re the OT and adultery


 
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Frank S said:
These two links are not from elsewhere, but worth a look.
Pat Robertson seems to see part of the picture, but unfortunately, some blindness remains.
He has the skills to know better, but I think he doesn't want to alienate too many people by telling the whole truth.
I'll give him credit for seeing farther than a lot of others.
I know a pastor who preaches about Abraham's (supposed) adultery. I'd call that a false accusation.
At least Pat Roberson has got it figured right re the OT and adultery


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Nice find! I have a sneaking suspicion that your work in this thread will have far reaching rewards and dividends.
 
The PDF's both look like good reads; just don't have time right now for it.
 
Frank S said:
https://www.southafrica.to/people/customs/faiths.php
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The Shembe, members of the Nazareth Christian Church
The Shembe are disciples of a Christian sect founded by Bishop Isaiah Shembe in 1910 near Durban. Annually, thousands of Shembe, who are members of the Nazareth Christian Church, converge on the Ebuhleni village (in Inanda, a township north of Durban). From the Ebuhleni village the Shembe undertake a pilgrimage walking 80 kilometres barefoot, with their possession carried on their heads, for 3 days three sheets of rain and heat. Their destination - a holy mountain at Ndwedwe in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in Kwazulu-Natal. The holy mountain is called Nhlangakazi.
The religion is a mixture of the Old and the New Testaments together with traditional Zulu culture. The code of conduct for the Shembe involves no alchohol or smoking. Most Shembe men keep their beards. The Shembe regard Saturday as being their Sabbath, and do no cooking on Saturdays. The current leader of the Shembe is Mbuso Vimbeni Shembe, who is 73 years old. The Shembe encourage polygamy. The lobolo paid for a bride depends on her virginity. Sex and even courtship before marriage are frowned upon. Sex is not allowed, even between married couples, in January, July and October.
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