Do you read the Bible yourself, or are you just repeating something some mortal man said, like Paul the Apostle? ...
Really? ... Abraham committed "willful sin" taking his wife's handmaiden for wife and getting her with child ... and then "punished" by being named "father of all nations" ... all before the birth of Issac ...
Abraham didn't divorce Sarah ...
Deuteronomy 24:1-5 is our Law concerning divorce ... and fornication is unclean ... I agree Matthew 19:3-9 is more specific, but not entirely different ... the problem is never the Law, but always Man's interpretation of the Law ... and this is in a society when "a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken." -- Deut 24:5 ...
... and adultery is a capital offense ...
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The question was where does God prohibit a man with more than one wife ... I understand all examples in the Bible end in folly ... indeed Abraham's folly haunts us still ... Muslims ruined NASCAR ...
First and foremost: If you attempt to justify yourself under the Law, you have fallen from grace. (Gal. 5:4) Jesus Christ nailed the Law to His cross (Col. 2:14). If you stumble on only one point of the Law and the Prophets....you are guilty of all. (James 2:11)
You attempt to justify Polygamy by the OLD LAW? But do you obey all the law? Do you still provide burnt offerings to the Royal Priesthood of Levites? If not why not? Since you brought it up..........if you charge someone with adultery, do you still sentence he/she to death? If not why not? Do you still live under the rule of a God appointed KING? If not, why not? Do you still identify yourself by Tribe? If not, why not?
What the hell are you talking about? Who brought up Abraham in relation to marriage? Abraham is referenced in relation to having hope for the future, with a promise that his descendants would number like the stars.......and FYI: Abraham existed before Moses' brought the law down from Mt. Sanai. (Ex. 34:29). Abraham never lived under the Law and the Prophets, nor did Abraham ever worship God on the Sabbath. If He did show us the scriptures.
Strange that you would attempt to start someplace OTHER THAN THE BEGINNING, in an attempt to defend the act of POLYGAMY. What........ are you attempting to break the record of Joe Smith who had a documented 27 wives?
In the eyes of God.........having more than ONE SPOUSE is a sin, as declared by God in Genesis.
And it was God Himself who drafted the Law as it pertains to marriage. This is God's original plan (i.e, like IN THE BEGINNING as declared by Jesus in Matthew 5). Marriage is between ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN......not many, as the 2 are to become ONE FLESH. (Genesis 2:24)
Paul the Apostle? You mean the Hebrew scholar SAUL that studied under one of the greatest teachers of the Law and the Prophets to ever exist in the 1st century AD (Gamaliel)? -- Acts 22:3 That Paul? I am sure that you know more than any Hebrew scholar of the 1st century......after all, its only 2000 years removed from the actual events recorded by this Hebrew Scholar?
FYI: The scriptures quoting Jesus on marriage and adultery are referencing OLD TESTAMENT (THE LAW) CONTENT (as the prophet Jeremiah stated, God was a husband unto the Hebrews and they still broke God's Laws (Jer. 31:31-34)...with that content found in the Gospel of Matthew......5:27-30. With Luke also declaring the same -- Luke 16:18, and of course the Hebrew Scholar Saul also declares such about what constitutes adultery. -- Hebrews 13:4
If you sleep (i.e, have sexual relations with) with more than ONE WIFE.......you are committing not only adultery, but Fornication. "Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day, three and twenty thousand." -- 1 Cor. 10:8