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Yeah, currently i have the feeling that it still sounds strange. And also that it only became real bad when someone marries of foreign countries out of Israel.
And i think it is not smart to have more than 1 woman (or one man). There is so many temptations in polygamous relationships. Jealousy, hurting, dominating, etc etc.
There is a lot to say about why it is wise to have only one woman (or one man). As you read the Bible you can see that there are a lot of people making big mistakes when they marry more woman.
I dont know wheter it is directly wrong on itself to have more than one wive. Only are the reasons right when you have a second wive?
Currently a lot of man and woman still have polygamy only they dont call it that way. Think of all the dirt that comes on man and womans computers. Yeah, only in the past they were only a little more social and gave food and a place to live for the girls they slept with.
So i believe still today if we look at the Bible that you already commit adultry in your heart if you lust after a woman as Jesus says. Also that you become one with the onces you sleep with in that way.
The reason with David was that he cared for the woman and gave them shelter and food. For some woman a great thing to have. What David reasons were to have these amounts of wives is pretty hard to say. It could be out of lust, competition, showing how a great king he is, out of care for the woman, maybe people gave him their woman all the time to make sure the woman have a life (and that David not even slept with all of them). The woman were nearly as his servants.
Well as we read the new testament i am glad to read that Paul gives elders the advise not to marry more than one woman. And I think it count clearly for everybody. Because i think a lot of people learned from the past, that it makes more trouble than making healthy good relationships.
(Even better not to marry if you dont feel the lust to)
But still I wonder why God did not jugded about these things so much as about these other things.
And i think it is not smart to have more than 1 woman (or one man). There is so many temptations in polygamous relationships. Jealousy, hurting, dominating, etc etc.
There is a lot to say about why it is wise to have only one woman (or one man). As you read the Bible you can see that there are a lot of people making big mistakes when they marry more woman.
I dont know wheter it is directly wrong on itself to have more than one wive. Only are the reasons right when you have a second wive?
Currently a lot of man and woman still have polygamy only they dont call it that way. Think of all the dirt that comes on man and womans computers. Yeah, only in the past they were only a little more social and gave food and a place to live for the girls they slept with.
So i believe still today if we look at the Bible that you already commit adultry in your heart if you lust after a woman as Jesus says. Also that you become one with the onces you sleep with in that way.
The reason with David was that he cared for the woman and gave them shelter and food. For some woman a great thing to have. What David reasons were to have these amounts of wives is pretty hard to say. It could be out of lust, competition, showing how a great king he is, out of care for the woman, maybe people gave him their woman all the time to make sure the woman have a life (and that David not even slept with all of them). The woman were nearly as his servants.
Well as we read the new testament i am glad to read that Paul gives elders the advise not to marry more than one woman. And I think it count clearly for everybody. Because i think a lot of people learned from the past, that it makes more trouble than making healthy good relationships.
(Even better not to marry if you dont feel the lust to)
But still I wonder why God did not jugded about these things so much as about these other things.
S
God never called polygamy sin. He never called it fornication or adultery. He even legislated on it. A man was not to take two sisters or a mother and daughter. He was forbid to diminish any support from his first wife if he took a second.
Women however were forbidden to have more than one husband. It was called adultery and was a stoning offense.
God's ideal is one man and one woman for life.
Women however were forbidden to have more than one husband. It was called adultery and was a stoning offense.
God's ideal is one man and one woman for life.
O
Just wondering what people infer from the polygamy of the old testament and what it says...
Personally, I found this most confusing as a little kid...am still not sure what to think of even people like David having soooo many wives and even concubines...
the Lord's light
tony
Personally, I found this most confusing as a little kid...am still not sure what to think of even people like David having soooo many wives and even concubines...
the Lord's light
tony
David repented and when he returned to the palace in chapter 20, we read in verse 3 that David only (by that time) had 10 concubines. He took them and placed them in a house under guard. He provided for their needs but did not lie with them. David had repented.
The same goes for Abraham (though that was not polygamy - that was adultery - read about Ishmael). Isaac was fine but Jacob was not and we read in Genesis that Jacob also repented.
Here's a pretty good summary of the polygamy stuff in the Bible. http://www.giveshare.org/family/polygamy.html
I feel the author kinda plays on syntactics rather than on semantics in the last section on Christ marrying the church but the examples on polygamy in the Bible are spot-on.
O
That is not biblical... adultery is not just for the woman, it is for the man as well. Read Matthew 5:31-32.
It has been said, "Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce." But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
It has been said, "Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce." But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
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By that logic, since we can't lose our salvation so it doesn't matter if we murder and rape as many people we desire. We still go to heaven.
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