Originally Posted by watcher2013
You gave a verse in deut about not multiplying wives to suppirt your view. But you have taken it out of context.
The reason being is tjat there is a chance that the heart of the king might turn away to the true God.
That is why the question is direct. If u can find verse the in the law that having many wives is a sin.it would be good to share rather than bashing and stating ur self righteous opinion.
We would have to start at the beginning where the laws that govern godly relationships are first shown as two equaling one.
From the beginning before the fall God designed man to represent his own self as a husband for a bride.
He performed that to cure our problem of being alone, which he knew beforehand.This is unlike all the other creatures that had no soul as that in which we have a line of communication with us and our Creator. God described as let
us,( more than) one created man in
his own image. The
two were one creation. Two is the number that he uses throughout the scriptures to represent one..never uses more than two to represent his bride the church.Which as a new creation included male and female equally .
And God said, Let “us” make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gen 1:26
Because of the fall like many things he gave man over to do what he should not for a season it includes multiple wives .
Just like having a visible person reigning from a throne on earth .They rejected Him as King of kings because of their jealously for the surrounding pagan nations of the word that walked by sight.
He gave them over to do what they should not of. He restored what he gave the Jews over to do which they should not of at the time of the first century reformation. A topic that has become in most cases a Taboo today.
Because of the reformation and the restoring to the period of the judges we know known man after the flesh. therefore as a new creation no longer of the flesh, Christians are considered neither Jew nor Gentile , male of female to reflect our new promised incorruptible bodies. And like the angels no way to procreate new persons.
Women who hold the awesome outward responsibility to represent the bride of Christ which is made up of two (male and female) which will be one new creation. Are to submit to their husband as if they were responding to the love of Christ not seen. In that sense she represents the whole church and the husband the unseen head Christ.
This is where men in general are moved more by that which is seen and woman the unseen love we should be drawing them closer to God as we wash them with the water of the word.
The standard in the garden remains. One creation, working as two. The let us . Not the let us ,two hundred or two thousand gods
Side note. I think Proverb 31 that uses a female entity could represent a marriage relationship with an man and a woman working together as one bride in the end of the matter .What applies to a woman in that verse also applies to men and our husband Christ. She (male and female) represent the whole church (both)in that way .
It is why in a assembly she is to be quiet. Its her husband the spokes person who represents Christ, unseen, the head.
Satan knew that and is why he first sought to deceive the woman. The one who represented both.