Polygamy

[Scarletprayers]

Any man who wishes to be an overseer in a church must follow certain requirements.

Ok, I'm not one.

Thank God.

t.

[Lionroot]

I'm wondering how many women take more than one husband.

It would be a moral wrong to do so.

Not only that it would be a sin. The sin of Adultery.

[Guest Biblicist]

Heres more technical, a literal more of a word for word translation:

4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

Beware of translations that miss the mark!

Well,OK it says also. They have authority over each other equally, if you really want to get technical about it.

Yes, the husband over the wife and the wife over the husband.

I like the NLT translation

The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband also gives authority over his body to his wife.

I DO!

[firehill]

What came out of the desert was a people God had forged and a culture he had forged to fit his standards.

Not true. The matter then is much more complex than you portray it to be which I don't have the time nor passion for. You wanna know what God has forged though? A NEW community of men and women wherein Jesus' endorsement (in the beginning God made them male and female...and for this reason the two not 10 that is, polygamy, shall become one) is upheld wherein each one, the husband and the wife has authority over the other's sexuality.

Where just not in the desert anymore. We've been called to repentence.

[None]

8)Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

So is the phrase "Moses permitted" an honorific as I hold it to be, or is it a declaration that Moses was a false prophet, as you seem to be hinting? Either the law was from God through Moses or it was not.

Also, completely aside from the destruction of Moses being a false prophet, how is Joseph, husband of Mary "Just" in his action to divorce her? Why does God depict himself as getting an ungodly divorce in Jeremiah 3?

Those words came from God Himself. I'm not hinting anything but Fear the Word of the Lord.

That "divorce" was articulated that way because it "fit" the understanding of that generation and the many to come.

It was an analogy.

[Guest Biblicist]

Any man who wishes to be an overseer in a church must follow certain requirements.

Ok, I'm not one.

Polygyny ~ 1.the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time.

Polygamy ~ 1.the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, esp. wife, at one time.

They words are not synonyms? They sound like the same meaning to me!

Polyandry is practiced by a few cultures. In this case a woman has more than one husband. Spouse is generic, refering to either a husband or wife. Polygyny focuses only on the case of a man having more than one wife, not on a woman having more than one husband, which is Polygamy as well.

How many men does anyone know here, that would be willing to be the second, third, fourth. . . etc. husband to one woman!?

My friend, you are playing semantics, both words mean the same thing, spouse of more than one spouse. A woman having several husbands or a man having several wives.

And, of course you did not answer my question. Are you in favor or not of a person having more than one spouse?

BTW, Moses permitted nothing without the permission of God. He was God's advocate, therefore his authority came from God.

[firehill]

BTW, Moses permitted nothing without the permission of God. He was God's advocate, therefore his authority came from God.

[Scarletprayers]

are you a preacher????

[firehill]

We've been called to repentence.

Of what?

Hugh McBryde

For our sins of ignorance for one, like that of being a polygamist.

Acts 17

24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'

29"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone

[firehill]

Oh, mine wouldn't be ignorance firehill. It's entirely possible that I have read the scriptures front to back more times than all the anti polygyny posters in this thread combined.

Now, I challenge you. Show me the naming of Polygyny as a sin.

Hugh McBryde

The Lord has one bride. God created a marriage of monogomy in the beginning which the Lord endorsed. He's the example to be followed, not any man.