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1 | Why can't I have several wives? | Ex 21:10 | headdoc5 | 102311 | ||
In the old testiment polygamy was accepted and prevalent. When and why did this change? No one . . . even Biblical scholars can answer this for me. David and Solomon had many wives. why can't I? When did this change. God is not changable is he? Please advise! | ||||||
2 | Why can't I have several wives? | Ex 21:10 | Michael Draves | 102388 | ||
Monogamy is the ideal for marriage but the Bible allows polygyny but not polyandry. Marrying Tamar the wife of a deceased brother was expected of Onan in Genesis 38 and was later part of the Law in Deuteronomy 25 which doesn't mention whether the man already has a wife. This was an attempt to heal the social fabric by producing an heir to a deceased brother and support for his wife. Ruth 3 and 4 tell of Boaz marrying Naomi when the nearest kin refuses. David's adultery was taking another man's wife not his multiple wives but Deuteronomy 17:17 warned against Kings having multple wives. Women were treated as property and that is how the commandments were interpretted then. Paul taught in 1 Timothy 3:2,12 that Church leaders should have only on spouse but churches in Africa have been wrong to cause converted men to divorce all but one wife to be accepted into membership. Deuteronomy 17:17 "He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself. Deuteronomy 25:5-10 5 "When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 "It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 7 " But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' 8 "Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,' 9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' 10 "In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.' 2 Samuel 12:8 'I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these! |
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3 | Pologomy Allowed? | Ex 21:10 | Morant61 | 102398 | ||
Greetings Michael! Where exactly does the Bible say that pologomy is allowed? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | Pologomy Allowed? | Ex 21:10 | Mommapbs | 102402 | ||
Greetings Tim! Gen 4:19 is the first mention of pologamy. Note however, the lineage from which it sprang! I wonder why there in no mention of a woman having more than one husband (except for Lot and his incestous girls!) . . . I guess one man is all a woman is able to bear!! Blessings, mommapbs |
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5 | Pologomy Allowed? | Ex 21:10 | Morant61 | 102431 | ||
Greetings Mommapbs! I've been married for almost 20 years now. Personally, I can't understand why a man would want more than one wife! :-) One is all I can handle! :-) Concerning my question though, I was trying to make a very simple point. The fact that pologamy is mentioned is not the same as saying that pologamy is allowed or approved. Murder is mentioned, but it is a sin! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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6 | When ever you want to | Ex 21:10 | wdc | 102734 | ||
Here is what puzzles me. All these guys in the Bible were used of God and even in David's case was called a man after God's own heart. But adultry didn't seem to be a problem to them. I mean David was just out one night starring at the stars or thinking about some kingly business, and saw this woman and decided to have sex with her. Naturally it led to other problems, but what was he thinking? Adultry was wrong then, how could he have so easily done this? And Judah in Gen. 38, he was just going down the road to work and saw a woman of the side of the road and decided to have sex. But today such a big deal is made over a pastor that is divorced or married to a divorced woman (it's almost as if that is the only qualification given in the N. T. for pastors and deacons)that it causes me to wander, if the men in the O.T. could take sex so lightly and God still blessed them and used them, how come it is so serious in the N.T.? It seems that Paul mentions sexual sins every few verses. I am not having immoral thoughts or wanting another wife, I have just always wandered about this. Any ideas or thoughts? wdc |
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7 | When ever you want to | Ex 21:10 | jlpangilinan | 102753 | ||
it is not a common custom to have sex out of marriage or having more than one wives anyone in OT. it is the heart of the people hard and always wanting to do that. For example God prohibit even to eat the fruit of forbidden tree but it happened. God even in OT want God the person to have only one wife: Ge 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. "and shall cleave unto his wife" not unto his wives "and they shall be one flesh" the two shall be one flesh, and four wives will be "one flesh" David was punished because of his immoral relationship with bathseba, his son was died and even david ready to accept if the Lord will take his life. It means it is not really a common to have immoral life. 2Sa 12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. God forgive david when he repent. Christ said that having more than one wives is not a custom even in OT: Mt 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? Mt 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. Will see that because of the "hardness of thier heart" moses done a writing of law in divorcement. But in the beginning it was not so. Why it is because it so serious of NT? because it is the law of Christ, and Christ want us to leave in Holiness. 1Th 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. As He said He made a new covenant for us not according to thier fathers: Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. God bless, |
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8 | When ever you want to | Ex 21:10 | wdc | 103565 | ||
You make a good point. I agree that it was because of the hardness of the heart that these things were done, as is the case with most, if not all sin. I still have a problem with the frequency that we see acts of sex outside of marriage in the O.T. We never read in the N.T. that Paul was going down the road to Colosse or some place and stopped off by the way because he saw some woman on the side of the road. I think maybe the difference could be the presence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the N.T. wdc |
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