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I guess I'm just extremely careful with what I condemn as sinful.

Some more context here, courtesy of Logos. "The exegetical arguments for requiring paternal blessing rest on several layers of biblical reasoning that reformers synthesized into a coherent case. The foundational argument derives from the Fifth...

It's sinful to marry without a fathers blessing?

I can’t say I disagree in total, but as someone who has referred others to existing threads, it’s not to discourage interaction, it’s to expose someone to what’s already been discussed, thereby giving them a new perspective from which to then...

Nation states are not interpersonal relationships.

It is possible to take the concept too far, which you did.

You need to read more. "We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests." - Winston Churchill

Whoa. You both lost me. I’ll let you both argue this one out.

I need clarification. If you’re saying what I think you’re saying, we may have arrived at a different discussion point entirely. Are you implying that an initial set of marriage vows isn’t necessarily a vow of monogamy, only fidelity? If he...

It is possible to take the concept too far, which you did.

By the way, we can reasonable conclude Lord is anti-commie. He likes private property, commies don't. And union of councils is basic organization method of Soviet Union. Now, basic thinking tell me that Lord won't prefer using same organization...

11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. As you said in a previous post, a boy is to become more mature. As a young man, head of his...

No They were only under his authority in the office of the priesthood. When a young man leaves his father’s house, he is head of his household under Yeshuah. There is a chain of council that a young man should be under that hopefully would...

I hate articles that sit behind pay walls!

So a tangent question could be- Does wealth come BEFORE a family is created (so dad can AFFORD several wives) or after where many hands make light work?