Faith writes:
They were sinners, at odds with God who decreed one man, one woman for marriage.
There was never any such decree.
Faith writes:
THAT's the tradition I have in mind.
It's a non-Biblical tradition, like most of your theology.
Faith writes:
The man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife....
Cleaving to a wife doesn't preclude the possibility of other wives. Jacob, for one example, already had a wife when he cleaved to his chosen Rachel - yet God chose him to be the father of the nation of Israel.
All that are in Hell, choose it. -- CS Lewis
That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo