Should I be married to two women?
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1. If this was real, then it would be so unbearably life-shaking you'd be getting advice from your pastor... probably several pastors along with a therapist.
2. If this was real, your post would be overwhelmed with anguish and emotion.
3. If this was real, we'd have heard something about it on the news... the return of kidnap victims is a rather big deal.
4. So, why are you here, talking to us instead of getting serious counseling; why has no one ever heard about this; and why is your post so logical, organized, and dispassionate... as if you're simply asking a well-constructed hypothetical?
4. Simple answer: this is nonsense.
If you're going to ask hypotheticals, please state them as hypotheticals instead of telling our community a bunch of nonsense.
I'm not amused.
2. If this was real, your post would be overwhelmed with anguish and emotion.
3. If this was real, we'd have heard something about it on the news... the return of kidnap victims is a rather big deal.
4. So, why are you here, talking to us instead of getting serious counseling; why has no one ever heard about this; and why is your post so logical, organized, and dispassionate... as if you're simply asking a well-constructed hypothetical?
4. Simple answer: this is nonsense.
If you're going to ask hypotheticals, please state them as hypotheticals instead of telling our community a bunch of nonsense.
I'm not amused.
I have seen many Christians say this--that the forefathers of the Bible had multiple wives, therefore, it must be ok with God and therefore, is perfectly fine for modern-day Christians to take on as well.
On these same grounds--the forefathers of the Bible also owned slaves.
So I have always been curious... By this way of this kind of reasoning, would you also say that slavery is perfectly acceptable for Christians to support and take part in as well?
On these same grounds--the forefathers of the Bible also owned slaves.
So I have always been curious... By this way of this kind of reasoning, would you also say that slavery is perfectly acceptable for Christians to support and take part in as well?
It wasn’t until sin made man fall (Gen. 4:23) that polygamy occurs. Cain was cursed, Lamech is a descendent of Cain and the first to practice polygamy.
The first time polygamous relationship is found in the Bible is with a thriving rebellious society in sin; when a murderer named “Lamech [a descendant of Cain] took for himself two wives” (Gen.4:19, 23).
The first time polygamous relationship is found in the Bible is with a thriving rebellious society in sin; when a murderer named “Lamech [a descendant of Cain] took for himself two wives” (Gen.4:19, 23).
The same Godly pattern of one man and one wife is lived by Noah. At the time of the Ark (Gen. 7:7), Noah took his one wife into the ark, all his son’s took one wife; God called Noah’s family righteous and pure. If polygamy were ordained of God, it would have made sense that Noah and his sons would have taken additional wives with them to repopulate the earth faster from the cataclysm.
This was to be a permanent union between man and woman that they might be helpful to one another (Genesis 2:18). Marriage represents a relationship of both spiritual and physical unity.
Hebrews 13:3-4:“Marriage is honorable among all, and the
bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
Many of the patriarchs took more than one wife. Abraham, by recommendation of Sarah, took her maid. Jacob was tricked through Laban, into taking Leah first, and then Rachel, to whom he had been betrothed. Polygamy was not wrong in ancient cultures, but was a departure from the divine institution that God ordained.
Every polygamist in the Bible like David and Solomon (1 Chron. 14:3)
were punished. This should be evidence that this is not God’s will.
http://www.letusreason.org/Biblexp75.htm
This was to be a permanent union between man and woman that they might be helpful to one another (Genesis 2:18). Marriage represents a relationship of both spiritual and physical unity.
Hebrews 13:3-4:“Marriage is honorable among all, and the
bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
Many of the patriarchs took more than one wife. Abraham, by recommendation of Sarah, took her maid. Jacob was tricked through Laban, into taking Leah first, and then Rachel, to whom he had been betrothed. Polygamy was not wrong in ancient cultures, but was a departure from the divine institution that God ordained.
Every polygamist in the Bible like David and Solomon (1 Chron. 14:3)
were punished. This should be evidence that this is not God’s will.
http://www.letusreason.org/Biblexp75.htm
Only a family law attorney can answer this for you
Biblically, once the two make one, wink wink, you are eternally spousal in God's eye. Marriage is just the public confession of that spousal status. Thus, even if you divorce someone, the two of you are STILL in a spousal relationship as far as God is concerned.
But to have two wives? You must be crazy! One is too much to handle!
Biblically, once the two make one, wink wink, you are eternally spousal in God's eye. Marriage is just the public confession of that spousal status. Thus, even if you divorce someone, the two of you are STILL in a spousal relationship as far as God is concerned.
But to have two wives? You must be crazy! One is too much to handle!
Well it's not recommended, but it is in the Bible. David and Solomon were not punished because they had multiple wives if that's what you're wondering. David was punished because he took Uriah the Hittite's wife and murdered him, you will see in Nathan's rebuke and prophecy to David that he notes that the Lord would add to David many more wives if he so pleased, which is what makes his stealing Uriah's wife and slaying him all the more sinful. Solomon was punished not due to polygamy, but because rather he took wives of foreign races and they beguiled his heart to follow their false gods.
I would say this case here is most akin to Jacob and Leah and Rachel, though the circumstances are a bit different. Nevertheless what you have here is the fellow has not taken two wives because of his own will or a lustful desire to have many women, but rather because of circumstances which befell him. Much the same as Jacob intended only to have the one wife, Rachel, but due the circumstances, he ended up with Leah as well.
I would remind that also it is quite a sin to try to break up a marriage as well. Let not man put asunder that which the Lord God has brought together. The greater sin here than defying the Law of the Land would be to divorce one of the wives if they both wish to remain to the man and possibly cause her to commit adultery and fornication
I would say this case here is most akin to Jacob and Leah and Rachel, though the circumstances are a bit different. Nevertheless what you have here is the fellow has not taken two wives because of his own will or a lustful desire to have many women, but rather because of circumstances which befell him. Much the same as Jacob intended only to have the one wife, Rachel, but due the circumstances, he ended up with Leah as well.
I would remind that also it is quite a sin to try to break up a marriage as well. Let not man put asunder that which the Lord God has brought together. The greater sin here than defying the Law of the Land would be to divorce one of the wives if they both wish to remain to the man and possibly cause her to commit adultery and fornication
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