[hamashiachagape]

Re: What a Glorious Easter Sunday!!!!

Dear friend:

Let me clarify that for you. Today, we follow monogamy because secular law commands us to do so. However, Biblically, marriage is between a man and as many wives and concubines as he wants and can afford:

Exodus 21:7-11: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

There is an exception for bishops and deacons. That may seem arbitrary, but who are we to question God's Law?

1 Tim. 3:2: A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Tim. 3:12: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

That is not in context (Exodus 21:7-11). 'Another woman" does not infer another wife. What this states is that if he chooses to seek another woman for marriage besides the maidservant, she must be released. No where does it infer that he be able to have another wife. The best way to view polygamy is that it is permanent adultery.
Polygamy is described in the Bible as adultery. Romans 7:1-3 condemns it as well.

[Levi Jones]

Re: What a Glorious Easter Sunday!!!!

That is not in context (Exodus 21:7-11). 'Another woman" does not infer another wife. What this states is that if he chooses to seek another woman for marriage besides the maidservant, she must be released. No where does it infer that he be able to have another wife. The best way to view polygamy is that it is permanent adultery.
Polygamy is described in the Bible as adultery.

You know the drill. Chapter and verse.

Romans 7:1-3 condemns it as well.

That only talks about women.

[hamashiachagape]

Re: What a Glorious Easter Sunday!!!!

You know the drill. Chapter and verse.

Thats quite simple. If in effect, one has sex outside of his own marriage, or cheats or even lustfully thinks about a woman outside of his own marriage, then he is guilty of polygamy. Polygamy is in effect stating that since it desires to have another individual outside of marriage be married to said individual, there is an obvious lustful nature involved. Hence it is appropriate to think of polygamy as adultery in a permanent state that someone dedicates his/her life to.

Exodus 20:14 declares adultery wrong. Leviticus 20:10 states what the punishment for the sin was at the time without animal sacrifice.



That only talks about women.

1Do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to men who know the law—that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? The next verse uses the example of women, but does not necessarily apply only to women because of verse 1.

Did you miss that?