Is polygamy a sin

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Hello guys, I've been wondering if it's a sin for a Christian man to marry more than one wife. Will a person ho to hell if he legally marries more women? Pls advice with scriptural reference. Thank you

There is no scriptural prohibition against polygamy. It has long been prohibited by the Church. Even those who don't follow the teachings of the Church still have it as a holdover from when they did.

But I don't know where you live so I don't know if it's legal or not.
 
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Hello guys, I've been wondering if it's a sin for a Christian man to marry more than one wife. Will a person ho to hell if he legally marries more women? Pls advice

Maybe someone might be able to share with us 1st, what the differences are between polygamy and adultery.
 
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There is no scriptural prohibition against polygamy. It has long been prohibited by the Church. Even those who don't follow the teachings of the Church still have it as a holdover from when they did.

But I don't know where you live so I don't know if it's legal or not.
it is legally accepted where I am. no problem with that..my concern is about morality..is it morally or scripturally right. when you marry more, will u go to hell for that?
 
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it is legally accepted where I am. no problem with that..my concern is about morality..is it morally or scripturally right. when you marry more, will u go to hell for that?

It's something you should speak to a priest about.
 
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Hello guys, I've been wondering if it's a sin for a Christian man to marry more than one wife. Will a person ho to hell if he legally marries more women? Pls advice with scriptural reference. Thank you
Yes, it is a sin, because its adultery against the first wife.

Who belives in Christ Jesus will not come to the judgement, but already came to life, so no hell.
 
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Hello guys, I've been wondering if it's a sin for a Christian man to marry more than one wife. Will a person ho to hell if he legally marries more women? Pls advice with scriptural reference. Thank you
There is no scriptural prohibition against polygamy.

It is specifically banned in Leviticus 18:18. "And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to another (usually translated "to her sister"], uncovering her nakedness while the other is still alive."

Also, 1st and 2nd Samuel have a major theme of the danger of polygamy (although this theme spans the whole of the Old Testament. Although the patriarch and kings had multiple wives, this caused great suffering, including the fall of Israel.



However, a polygamous marriage is a true marriage, unlike a homosexual union - you are bound to the second wife as much as of the first, but the second marriage was a grave sin. It's like cutting off your hand, it's a sin but once it's done you simply no longer have a hand and that's the natural consequence.

I used to live in a country where it was legal... and the social consequences are very bad for the women and children. The metaphysical effect (which is reflected socially on the first wife) is that she, her husband, and her relationship is diminished... something is permanently altered... The essence of marriage is dissolved... and becomes twisted.

And it is adultery against her. She has the right to divorce.
 
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One can either go by God's commands or the country they live in. Throughout the bible it talks about being respectful to your wife not wives at the same time. It talks about respecting the wife of your youth. The list goes on. Maybe you yourself could try and locate the scriptures to find the answers.

There is a scripture that church leaders can only marry one wife of good repute.

To me there's a lack of respect for the first marriage if one marries another person while being marriage. Life is not about serving you passions in whatever why you see fit. God created life for it to be cherished and honored. Not demeaned and be dissatisfied with another.

I'm going to say if a person desires to break the spiritual union of their first marriage and join to another person while still married, then the real issue is the lack of respect a person has for their self to seek after passions that are not considered deemed by God as holy. God determines what is holy. Not men. God is our Creator so either we respect His commands or we do not. It's just that simple.
 
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it is legally accepted where I am. no problem with that..my concern is about morality..is it morally or scripturally right. when you marry more, will u go to hell for that?

Its not legal in the UK.
 
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A man is to marry a single wife. Polygamy is against Christ's teachings.

Mark 10:5-12

"5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery."

God bless.
 
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However, a polygamous marriage is a true marriage, unlike a homosexual union - you are bound to the second wife as much as of the first, but the second marriage was a grave sin.
That is not biblical. A second marriage would be considered invalid. A second marriage is simply adultery and the only way to repent of it is to leave the second invalid wife and return to the first.
 
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That is not biblical. A second marriage would be considered invalid. A second marriage is simply adultery and the only way to repent of it is to leave the second invalid wife and return to the first.

Leviticus justifies this by describing this second wife “as a rival” to the first, and 1 Samuel 1:6 alludes to these words when it describes Elkanah’s wife Peninah as the “rival” of Hannah. Thus, the Old Testament forbids polygamy categorically. Genesis 2 shows the creation of a single bride for man as the original order, and the first polygamist in history is Lamech the descendant of Cain. Throughout the OT, polygamy always causes problems, and that the book of Samuel opens with rivalry between wives foreshadows the problems that come when David begins to take additional wives, ultimately resulting in the seizure of Bathsheba, whose grandfather subsequently supports a coup against David, temporarily depriving him of the kingdom.

Nowhere does it deny that the second 'rival wife' is not a wife. You are the one with the unbiblical teaching, directly contradicting the very language of the law itself and subsequent example.
 
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Hello guys, I've been wondering if it's a sin for a Christian man to marry more than one wife. Will a person ho to hell if he legally marries more women? Pls advice with scriptural reference. Thank you
It might be hell on earth if the poor husband ends up being nagged by more than one wife!! :)
 
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It is specifically banned in Leviticus 18:18. "And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to another (usually translated "to her sister"], uncovering her nakedness while the other is still alive."

Also, 1st and 2nd Samuel have a major theme of the danger of polygamy (although this theme spans the whole of the Old Testament. Although the patriarch and kings had multiple wives, this caused great suffering, including the fall of Israel.



However, a polygamous marriage is a true marriage, unlike a homosexual union - you are bound to the second wife as much as of the first, but the second marriage was a grave sin. It's like cutting off your hand, it's a sin but once it's done you simply no longer have a hand and that's the natural consequence.

I used to live in a country where it was legal... and the social consequences are very bad for the women and children. The metaphysical effect (which is reflected socially on the first wife) is that she, her husband, and her relationship is diminished... something is permanently altered... The essence of marriage is dissolved... and becomes twisted.

And it is adultery against her. She has the right to divorce.

Leviticus 18:18 prohibits sexual relations between a man and his sister in law. It's not a prohibition against polygamy.
 
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