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When describing what coveting is, we also find a nugget about the definitions of what appears to be adultery as well. David was also guilty of coveting first, then adultery by… “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet...

Up until not so many years ago there was a town in Switzerland (Zurich) where they used to celebrate drowning Baptists in a river. https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/troubling-the-water-in-switzerland

Many will say Jacob (among others) was in adultery for having more than one wife; Leah first, then Rachel, then the two maids. However, in Matthew 8:11 Jesus said Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would be in the kingdom of heaven. Paul wrote in 1...

And these sentiment by Virginia Baptists like George Mason and others is what contributed to Jefferson including the Bill of Rights in the Constitution and promoting, in his writings, the concept of separation of church and state. Baptists...

P.S. While for some advocates of Baptist Successionism is undoubtedly a matter of pride, as it is said that pride is the first thing to enter into a man and the last thing to leave, for others it is a matter of necessity. If, in fact: 1. The...

1 Kings 15:5 ESV: because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. It cites the specific instance of...

Howdy, and happy to explain, but it would be difficult to improve upon Mr. Spurgeon’s succinct assessment. "We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the Reformation, we were Reformers before...

I'll begin... I heard a guy say David was in adultery for having more than one wife. The guy had just pointed out David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and quite correctly shown this was the sin of adultery because she was the wife of Uriah. He...

I’ll let @Kojent explain his side but I’ll explain how I’ve heard it explained as I grew up. Various Baptist and other nonaligned groups believe that they’re church/movement was always outside the institutional/state church structure...

Okay, I’m going to need to have this one explained to me.

Grace and peace, beloved of God. I have been a bit of a lurker here on BibFam off and on for about a year while my lovely wife and I navigate the prospect of polygyny with prayer and patience, following a providential answer to prayer late last...

Define what is adultery first: Adultery is sexual contact between a married man and a woman who is married to someone else. If the man and woman are married to each other then that's not adultery. Legally, in the West, only one man and one...

Please contribute thoughts and reasons to help others understand polygyny isn't adultery. This is something that is frequently thrown up against us, so it would be useful to have a thread that addresses the issue.

I'll begin... I heard a guy say David was in adultery for having more than one wife. The guy had just pointed out David's sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and quite correctly shown this was the sin of adultery because she was the wife of Uriah. He...