Should I be married to two women?
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Well I am not pro-polygamy, but in the NT you have the verses where Paul says a priest and deacons should have one wife. So it is true, having one wife is the most preferential way of things. Nevertheless though as Jesus speaks very ill about divorce and absolutely condemns remarriage as adultery and fornication that is also something that should be considered in a hard moral case like this. This is not a case where it's just oh Chad the playboy wants to have a harem lol, it's a case where by circumstances out of the fellow's control he has ended up with two wives.
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well, Craig, when you get married, that is just not gonna fly
but remember, since sex is a spiritual matter, no touchy feely for you
and of course this is why God created one man and twelve-teen women
this is what happens when folks just cannot accept what is plainly written and need to embroider around the edges
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I’m also of the opinion that if this were a real thing happening, the OP would be taking his question to a pastor or attorney and would seem more...distraught, and less...troll-y.
However, giving the benefit of the doubt-
The first wife was declared dead; there was no divorce, but death certainly ends a marriage (in a biblical manner, too). That marriage is over. The second wife should not be set aside just because someone isn’t actually dead. To divorce the 2nd wife would force her to commit adultery (Matthew 5:32), along with any future husband she may have.
Having two wives is unacceptable- Genesis 2:24 shows us God’s intention for marriage is that a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife (not wives), and the Two shall become one flesh.
Or, on the other hand, maybe just apply the directions below to wives.
However, giving the benefit of the doubt-
The first wife was declared dead; there was no divorce, but death certainly ends a marriage (in a biblical manner, too). That marriage is over. The second wife should not be set aside just because someone isn’t actually dead. To divorce the 2nd wife would force her to commit adultery (Matthew 5:32), along with any future husband she may have.
Having two wives is unacceptable- Genesis 2:24 shows us God’s intention for marriage is that a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife (not wives), and the Two shall become one flesh.
Or, on the other hand, maybe just apply the directions below to wives.
But even in that case there is a difference between things in the OT being descriptive and prescriptive. Solomon having many wives was a statement of fact rather than an imperative. In fact, I have heard that Hebrew scholars have noted how, in instances where polygamy is mentioned as a practice in the OT, things seem to go wrong consistently in almost a comical way. Take Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah for instance. So both explicitly and implicitly the Bible is pretty clear in terms of its support for heterosexual, monogamous marriage.
