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NASB | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away [from God]. |
Subject: Does God endorse polygamy? |
Bible Note: You said: "yes "marriage with out legal paper work" is wrong!" Who says? You? I am curious, by what standard do you judge this by? Your own personal standard, or something you have read in God's word? You said: "If the man dies after living and having children with this woman, who did not think a "piece of paper" was important, the "wife? and children would get NOTHING." My friend, you must not be much aware of Wills and Power of Attournys. There are MANY legal avenues to ensure that the property remains as it should. As for Social Security, well, talk to those who are on it, and you will discover that a government fixed income is hardly a means of support. If Social Security is the only basis for declaring it wrong to not have the license, then that indeed is a shabby foundation. We are talking about the moral implications, not the social/economic implications. Like I had said before, I know several polygamous families whose economic future is FAR brighter than ANYTHING the government system can possibly match. I also know many monogamous families who give little to no thought for relying upon support from Social Security. It makes good sense, that even Larry Burkette has confirmed, to make one's plans APART from reliance upon Social Security. Life insurance and other forms of financial investment will go MUCH farther in keeping the family finances alive than the government hand-outs. The line for the beneficiary does not at all ask as to if you are legally married to the woman you write into that spot. You said: "show me a verse that gives God's approval for plural wifes!" It has been my contention all along that God did not DISALLOW plural wives, in spite of all the general statements to the contrary, all being flung around like refuse out of a fertilizer spreader. You then make referrence as "how the world" sees all this. Did Jesus care how the world saw Him? Does TRUTH ever care about how the world beholds its untouchable majesty? If how the world views things is the basis of your measurment of something being right or wrong, then you are relying upon an terribly inferior standard compared to God's word. Any sports enthusiast who watches a ball game end prematurely knows that there is no real winner until the game is allowed to play out to the end. In this posting, you have appealed ONLY to the secular view of marriage, not the word of God. As believers, we are called to a different Kingdom than the kingdom of this world. Yes, it is implicit that we THEN adopt the standards laid out by God's word rather than the standards of this world. God's ways have ALWAYS clashed with the ways of this world. That is why Jesus HAD to rise above any concern for how the world saw Him and His mission. If we are to imitate Him, then we too are called to live this same way no matter what the world around us may think. Hank Hannagraff said it well when stating that if a lie is repeated often enough and loudly enough, then the general populace begins to believe it.....even many of those who profess to follow Christ Jesus. Don Dean |