Why does God allow polygamy in the Old Testament?

Christian Post ^ | 02/02/2020 | Kenneth Reid

[minnesota_bound]

I would like to be married to 6 women at the same time.
One for everyday of the week.
I have Sundays off.....

[trebb]

“As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

[Elsie]

Why does God allow polygamy in the Old Testament?

Here ya go; guys.

Field this one!

[Elsie]

When yer done with THAT one; tell us why SLC fails to follow GOD’s command in D&C 132:58-66

[Elsie]

Look at the ratio of male/female births.

All things being equal; some fellows will miss out on getting a wife.

(But since Darwin tends to weed out the REALLY dumb guys; this’ll fix itself; I guess)

There is NO math reason that a man should NEED more than one wife.

[Elsie]

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The Book of MORMON:

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THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

 

24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 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;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

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Doctrines and Covenants:

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 49:16 Wherefore, it is lawful that he should have one ^awife, and they twain shall be ^bone flesh, and all this that the ^cearth might answer the end of its creation;
 

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The BIBLE:

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1 Timothy 3:2-3

2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

 

1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

 

Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: tell us why SLC fails to follow GOD’s command in D&C 132:58-66

I have no idea who these folks are. You use abbreviations and some strange document numbers that I can’t make head or tail of what you’re referring to.

[Elsie]

That's because you are not a MORMON.

Rest assured that those OTHER folks I pinged definitely know what I'm talking about!!

SLC is Salt Lake City; homebased of the largest Mormon denomination on earth.

Googling D&C 132:58-66 will illustrate what those 'strange numbers' are.