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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
When the comparison is the most promiscuous men, it's not really a winning religious argument.
A better winning argument would be comparing him to accepted Christian/Jewish prophets/leaders.
Which gets back to the whole "they practiced polygamy in the OT, so maybe it's ok" argument.
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I don't believe there are any winning arguments on this.
Basically, as one person put it, he sacramentalized adultery. There was sex involved and some of them were the wives of other men. Joseph may have rationalized it that he was just doing what he read about the prophets and patriarchs doing, but there is little proof that was noble.
I really wouldn't try on for size that other predators had a lot more sex. In his day, I imagine the numbers of sexual partners was far lower than what it is today.