Posted on 12/16/2019 8:08:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You can make a better case for polygamy in the Bible than you can divorce.
And yes there is one specific situation in the OT where polygamy IS condoned. When a man dies, his brother had the duty to take his brother’s wife into his household and if the brother was childless, raise up children for the brother.
You can look it up.
All that said. The guy in the article is essentially right
Anyone who thinks he wants more than one wife probably hasn’t been with just one for very long.
Good God! What sane man would have more than one wife??!! Oh the humanity! Oh the horror!
You’d think logical people would figure that out...then there are the Muzzies....
RE: What sane man would have more than one wife??!!
Kings David and Solomon ( especially the latter ) were bonkers then.
RE: When a man dies, his brother had the duty to take his brother’s wife into his household and if the brother was childless, raise up children for the brother.
Hmmm... does that mean that Hunter Biden was only following the Bible?
Polygamy being of God, is not specified in the Bible, but it is mentioned as “abominable before me saith the Lord” in the Book of Mormon.
“Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives, and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.” - Jacob 2:33
“Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none: For I, the Lord God, delighteth in the chastity of women.” - Jacob 2:36
“For they have not forgotten the commandments of the Lord, which were given unto our fathers, that they should have, save it were one wife: and concubines they should have none; and there should not be whoredoms committed among them.” - Jacob 2:55
There were no government social services at that time and widows would have been beggers otherwise. The corollary today would be to help the widowed sister-in-law to make a mortgage payment or other financial support
I’m not a Mormon, and tend to disregard their dogma out of hand.
Where does it say that brother is already married? Couldn't he have been single?
RE: “Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives, and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.” - Jacob 2:33
SO, why did Joseph Smith and Brigham Young have many wives?
Isaiah 4:1
Old Testament shows it only creates turmoil
I once worked with a Pakistani Muslim fellow. He told us that yes, under his religion he is allowed to have up to four wives.
“But..” he said, rolling his eyes, “a fellow would have to be pretty much insane to actually try it!”
RE: “a fellow would have to be pretty much insane to actually try it!”
What is the corollary to this when it comes to his prophet, Mohammad?
RE: Isaiah 4:1
What does it say about these women in the PREVIOUS verses?
Isaiah 3:16-26
Any of us men that have a really good wife would laugh heartily at the concept of ever having some other woman around - never mind two or three other ones !!!!
I can’t even imagine the conflict, jealousy envy and other nonsense that would be around that kind a house!
RE: I can’t even imagine the conflict, jealousy envy and other nonsense that would be around that kind a house!
That’s precisely what this article is saying.
Abraham’s house did not have peace the moment he took Hagar as is his common-law-wife, resulting in conflict between Sarah and this woman ( never mind that it was Sarah’s idea in the first place ).
David’s house was in turmoil as his children from various wives plotted against one another with one of his children, Absalom actually rebelling against him. Up to the time he died, his wive’s and children were plotting to see who would take over his throne.
Solomon’s pagan wives turned his heart away from the Lord.
Just three examples.
Genesis 2:
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Adam, the first man in the flesh, left his father and mother in heaven to cleave to his wife.
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