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Most women who are trapped in polygamous marriages despise it. There are exceptions to the rule, but if you want to see some really heinous behavior, look at the behavior of women who are one of multiple wives of men with power. Poisoning, infanticide, murder and suicide are common.
This is because most women in polygamous marriages are also in backward, third-world hellhole countries, or lunatic sects that practice polygamy only for the sake of gratifying the ego of some dickhead man. There are, however, people who practice polygamy who do so in a loving and considerate way. They just also tend to keep a low profile.
Im not seeing how your scenario effects the belief that a marriage is between one man and one woman.
Marriage = one man + one woman
The problem you have that you are looking at this scenario as if one man + two women = marriage. But that isnt the correct way to look at it because the women arent married to each other. There just happen to be 2 marriages here between one man + one woman. The man just happens to be the same in both marriages.
A marriage is a union between a man and a woman. There is nothing that says because someone is married multiple times they are no longer married... In fact, the idea is rather contradictory if you say it outloud.
As for whether that will effect anyone converting to Christianity in general, Id say absolutely not. There is nothing inherently incompatible with being Christian and having more than one wife. The Bible forbids it directly in no place and many of the righteous men in the Bible lived this life style.
As for my particular sect, we dont rely on the Bible alone, but rely on on going revelation, one of which forbids this practice. In that case, my guess is the family would be permitted to attend church but would be unable to be baptized until a time where there would be only one living marriage relationship possible or until a time they can be baptized through proxy after they have died. I would presume that the children from such families, since they are not married would be allowed to be baptized and would be able to preform the proxy ordinance at some point.
But then since we generally arent in those countries at the moment, im not sure the situation has ever come up.
Careful you will make the anti Mormon segment of the board start ranting about how we really do have plural marriages and are evil incarnate.
And I was thinking of joining. Guess I'll just remain an agnostice
Most women who are trapped in polygamous marriages despise it. There are exceptions to the rule, but if you want to see some really heinous behavior, look at the behavior of women who are one of multiple wives of men with power. Poisoning, infanticide, murder and suicide are common.
This is because most women in polygamous marriages are also in backward, third-world hellhole countries, or lunatic sects that practice polygamy only for the sake of gratifying the ego of some dickhead man. There are, however, people who practice polygamy who do so in a loving and considerate way. They just also tend to keep a low profile.
Mormon women in polygamous marriages are traditionally equally miserable. Read some of the literature on the original mormons.
And polygamous marriages in third world countries are not necessarily simply to satisfy egos of men. They are to create connections between families and tribes, and in many cases to keep sisters together who would rather not part.
☭proletarian☭;1937311 said:Sinners cannot be wed in the eyes of God
Christians are no longer stained with sin once they have repented of their ways, been forgiven, and dedicated themselves to living like Christ. They are washed of all their inequities in the blood of Christ (kinda morbid, I know).☭proletarian☭;1937311 said:Sinners cannot be wed in the eyes of God
No no one is married in the eyes of god?
When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
Say a Muslim man in Saudi Arabia or some other Muslim country, who has two wives, converts to Christianity ...
The Muslim in your example merely made the decision to begin assembling together with other 'professing' Christians, when in reality the major Denominations (Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, Protestantism) have an inheritance in the 'mystery of iniquity/lawlessness' (2Thes. 2:7-12) in the body of Antichrist (on left):"And we know that [c]God causes (BG) all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are (BH) called according to His purpose. For those whom He (BI) foreknew, He also (BJ) predestined to become (BK)conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the (BL) firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He (BM) predestined, He also (BN) called; and these whom He called, He also (BO) justified; and these whom He justified, He also (BP)glorified. Romans 8:28-30.
Hi Cecilie:
Your query is based upon the false assumption that a man simply decides to become a Christian. No sir. God calls men to become members of Christ's body through 'our gospel' (#2), as stated in 2Thes. 2:13-14.
I have a fun hypothetical for Christians, particularly those who feel strongly that their religion requires "one man-one woman" marriages.
Say a Muslim man in Saudi Arabia or some other Muslim country, who has two wives, converts to Christianity. Do you believe that God and Christianity would require him to put aside the second wife, or would they allow him to keep them both? Why or why not? Would the answer change if both wives had children with this man? Why or why not?
☭proletarian☭;1937311 said:Sinners cannot be wed in the eyes of God
