Bigamy and polygamy in OT
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Your profile says that your spiritual status is "unsure". There's a straightforward way to be "sure": believe in the One Who came and paid the penalty for your sin by His death, and Who rose again to life everlasting: Jesus Christ.
God's design for marriage is one man and one woman, exclusively. There is no other combination that God has sanctioned in Scripture.
Your profile says that your spiritual status is "unsure". There's a straightforward way to be "sure": believe in the One Who came and paid the penalty for your sin by His death, and Who rose again to life everlasting: Jesus Christ.
God's design for marriage is one man and one woman, exclusively. There is no other combination that God has sanctioned in Scripture.
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1 Corinthians 6:12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
There ya go! Truth: Two becoming one flesh. That’s what God intended. One husband and one wife becoming one.
Is it lawful to have more than one husband or wife? That’s not the question we should be asking ourselves. We should be asking ourselves: Am I more concerned with what I desire for myself or for pleasing God and glorifying Him?
My will or God's will?
Which one has mastery over you?
There ya go! Truth: Two becoming one flesh. That’s what God intended. One husband and one wife becoming one.
Is it lawful to have more than one husband or wife? That’s not the question we should be asking ourselves. We should be asking ourselves: Am I more concerned with what I desire for myself or for pleasing God and glorifying Him?
My will or God's will?
Which one has mastery over you?
I don't go what man wrote but of old that god wrote and u forget jesus had 7 brides.
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Interestingly (as sometimes happens here) I was thinking about this yesterday and somehow it came up as a talking point for me in order to understand how the Lord may "frown on" certain things but not specifically forbid it.
Then I get on site to see topic lol.
The law of sowing and reaping applies no matter what the Lord directly curtails or not. I am leaning toward the opinion that sometimes he lets us learn "the hard way". Sometimes we disagree with the Lord in areas and scripture is vague...and we aren't convinced/convicted by his leading, so...what happens? Find out. Suffer the consequences. Miss a blessing.
Then of course, willful rebellion puts things into a different category and particularly shameful acts "2nd Samuel 12:14" has potentially grave application and it would behoove any believer to meditate on precisely what that verse means, and if it applies in our present reality. It has certainly felt like it all my life, and it all sort of made sense when I read that a month or so ago.
I may blog about this verse because I appreciate the depth and would like some feedback if I go too far on a limb regarding stewardship as a credit to the Lord and what bringing him glory and praise means to me at present and would like to bounce it off a few minds
Then I get on site to see topic lol.
The law of sowing and reaping applies no matter what the Lord directly curtails or not. I am leaning toward the opinion that sometimes he lets us learn "the hard way". Sometimes we disagree with the Lord in areas and scripture is vague...and we aren't convinced/convicted by his leading, so...what happens? Find out. Suffer the consequences. Miss a blessing.
Then of course, willful rebellion puts things into a different category and particularly shameful acts "2nd Samuel 12:14" has potentially grave application and it would behoove any believer to meditate on precisely what that verse means, and if it applies in our present reality. It has certainly felt like it all my life, and it all sort of made sense when I read that a month or so ago.
I may blog about this verse because I appreciate the depth and would like some feedback if I go too far on a limb regarding stewardship as a credit to the Lord and what bringing him glory and praise means to me at present and would like to bounce it off a few minds
Solomon also wrote THIS Book. He was probably tryin to see if there were even ONE good woman out of the 1000 he had: No Luck!
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Ecclesiastes 7:28-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
One man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.
29 Truly, this only I have found:
That God made man upright,
But they have sought out many schemes.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:28-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
One man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.
29 Truly, this only I have found:
That God made man upright,
But they have sought out many schemes.”
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Option? How is it an option?
You either believe because the evidence is compelling or you don't believe. I have never in my life heard of believing something is an option.
As children many believe in santa clause because they trust the word of their parents later they find that their parents lied and no longer believe it never was an option.
You tell me what other thing that we believe on this Earth do we choose to believe rather than are compelled to believe based upon a body of evidence.
You either believe because the evidence is compelling or you don't believe. I have never in my life heard of believing something is an option.
As children many believe in santa clause because they trust the word of their parents later they find that their parents lied and no longer believe it never was an option.
You tell me what other thing that we believe on this Earth do we choose to believe rather than are compelled to believe based upon a body of evidence.
One can ever choose to believe Gods will is Good and thus agree with what is Good,, that it is indeed Good.. Or one can disbelieve the will of God and join satan in rebellion and embrace evil as being good.. That's a choice and each person needs to make a choice of whom they will believe and what they will embrace as the right Way..
So you and I made a choice to either believe the Holy Bible or not to believe it.
Eve made a choice to believe satan and disbelieve God..
Salvation or condemnation is bound up in what we choose to acknowledge as being truth..
There are times like the example you gave as a child when we believed because we assumed that our parents could not lie to us.. But like the issue of santa we eventually come to the point where we must make our own personal choice as to what we will continue to acknowledge as true and what we shall reject / renounce as lies..
Deuteronomy 30: KJV
19 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Joshua 24: KJV
14 "¶ Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. {15} And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Proverbs 1: KJV
24 "¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; {25} But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: {26} I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; {27} When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. {28} Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: {29} For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: {30} They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."
So you and I made a choice to either believe the Holy Bible or not to believe it.
Eve made a choice to believe satan and disbelieve God..
Salvation or condemnation is bound up in what we choose to acknowledge as being truth..
There are times like the example you gave as a child when we believed because we assumed that our parents could not lie to us.. But like the issue of santa we eventually come to the point where we must make our own personal choice as to what we will continue to acknowledge as true and what we shall reject / renounce as lies..
Deuteronomy 30: KJV
19 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Joshua 24: KJV
14 "¶ Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. {15} And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Proverbs 1: KJV
24 "¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; {25} But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: {26} I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; {27} When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. {28} Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: {29} For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: {30} They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."
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Yes! Solomon is NOT the guy we want to emulate. I just like to stir things up a bit.
I believe Solomon is the quintessential MAN centered goal of every human BEFORE Salvation.
THE richest person ever, unbelievable achievements, smart, wise, insane amount of sexual partners, untold progeny.
He epitomizes what every EARTHLY, man-centered person would say that they want out of life.
But in the end, this most greatest achieving man ever, realized it all amounted to a great big pile of nothingness!
I believe Solomon is the quintessential MAN centered goal of every human BEFORE Salvation.
THE richest person ever, unbelievable achievements, smart, wise, insane amount of sexual partners, untold progeny.
He epitomizes what every EARTHLY, man-centered person would say that they want out of life.
But in the end, this most greatest achieving man ever, realized it all amounted to a great big pile of nothingness!
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