09-23-2008, 01:57 PM
Shlama Akhi Dawid,
Actually since I have done the work on it, the burden is on you to read it. The fact that you haven't is not my fault. I have done my part.
Bottom line is this: If you have time to read all these posts and write yours, you have time to read my article on Refiner's Fire. If you don't read the article on Refiner's Fire, then you are not giving me the attention this topic deserves. It is not like the article is long. It is also a fact that you still have not really dealt with the linguistic issues I have raised or even a better interpretation of the Scripture as I have put it out.
So listen dear brother, as long as you agree with me that either partner has veto power to prevent plural marriage, a point which I thought you disputed before with Christina when she mentioned that same passage, we should leave the rest of this alone. I cannot keep going back and forth on this when the core of the problem in my view is that you have not looked at exactly how I parsed out when plural marriage was allowed and when it wasn't and why. Until you are ready to have that discussion, espeicially with respect to portions of Jeremiah and Malachi, I really don't have anything to add.
Better yet, you can wait a little longer for the longer discussion of the topic in Mari but it is essentially the same series of facts.
Please take the time to assess the evidence or we will have to move on. I say this with all respect and love to you.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth
Actually since I have done the work on it, the burden is on you to read it. The fact that you haven't is not my fault. I have done my part.
Bottom line is this: If you have time to read all these posts and write yours, you have time to read my article on Refiner's Fire. If you don't read the article on Refiner's Fire, then you are not giving me the attention this topic deserves. It is not like the article is long. It is also a fact that you still have not really dealt with the linguistic issues I have raised or even a better interpretation of the Scripture as I have put it out.
So listen dear brother, as long as you agree with me that either partner has veto power to prevent plural marriage, a point which I thought you disputed before with Christina when she mentioned that same passage, we should leave the rest of this alone. I cannot keep going back and forth on this when the core of the problem in my view is that you have not looked at exactly how I parsed out when plural marriage was allowed and when it wasn't and why. Until you are ready to have that discussion, espeicially with respect to portions of Jeremiah and Malachi, I really don't have anything to add.
Better yet, you can wait a little longer for the longer discussion of the topic in Mari but it is essentially the same series of facts.
Please take the time to assess the evidence or we will have to move on. I say this with all respect and love to you.
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth