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It is a prohibition against polygamy.Leviticus 18:18 prohibits sexual relations between a man and his sister in law. It's not a prohibition against polygamy.
It is a prohibition against polygamy.
It prohibits sexual relations between inlaws. It is of the same type as 18:8
Lev 18:8 - The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
It prohibits sexual relations between a man and a woman who has had relations with his father, the charge made against the Corinthian man:
1Co 5:1 - It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
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 are no legal laws against polygamy where i live.. but im concerned more about whether doing that may mean that ive sinned and cost me heavenThere 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.
Exodus 21:10 KJV
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
This is as far as I know the only command in the Bible regarding polygamy: you must treat your wives equally in every way.
As far as I have found there is no direct prohibitions against polygamy, but many, many examples and such as to why and how it is a bad idea. For instance, rachel and leah, hannah and penninah, David's wives and Solomon's wives, both of which got them in trouble with God. (Not hell, just trouble) and many others. And it goes against how God made us, to be one man and one woman as one flesh. So is it inherently wrong? I dunno. Is it best? Definitely not.
This makes sense..This is the verse that speaks to me the most about if its OK to have more than one wife. In 2 Samual. 12: 7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.
Context is David stealing and committing adultery with Bathsheba against her husband. Here Nathan clearly says God gave David for this but says the above int his context. My paraphrase of the above ... God gave you all of Saul's wives into your arms and if you wanted more wives you just had to ask.
If you do a historical study its not God's people the Jews that taught a man could only have one wife but the pagan Gentiles that taught that. See Plato's Republic.
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.
Patriarchs did not have Jesus' words, so His rules do not apply to them.That's a rather odd declaration, because claiming it is the sin of adultery leads to the conclusion that we all may expect to see the Patriarchs burning in the pits of Hell, for almost all of them had plural wives.
I will agree with you that MOST forms of POLYGAMY are indeed sin, but POLYGYNY is not a sin. That is proven within the scriptures where it was revealed by Nathan the prophet that God gave to king David at least two of his already plural wives, and the Lord also COMMANDED the taking of an additional wife (in relation to those brothers who were already married) from his dead brother who had no heir.
So, in the end, were it sin for a man to have plural wives, we would not see the very actions and commands from God that we can read by simply allowing the word of God to speak for itself rather than to force meaning into the scriptures that ultimately condemn the very Patriarchs of our faith. Talking to some "priest" isn't going to change what the word of God says, but those men will teach you the traditions of their respective institutions that may or may not align with the very word of God.
Now, MOST men can't handle more than one wife, and many can't even handle one, so POLYGYNY is not for all or most men. Most should avoid it. The men I know personally who have more than one are men with great love for others. They are all exceptional in their own way, as are their wives. With feminism having infiltrated so many cultures across this earth, along with the utter ruin it brings into the hearts and minds of its adherents, it was inevitable that socially engineered theologies would spring up in various sects, denominations, non-denominations, religions, government, laws, etc., with religious leaders chiming in with their false teachings about it.
Folks, REAL marriage, as defined by God rather than mankind and his petty laws, as defined in Genesis 2, is NOT that silly piece of paper from your local government, and the supporting laws behind that piece of peper. TRUE marriage is a life-long commitment toward inner change and growth. It is a sacrifice. It is a dying to self. It also is known to have a prolonging effect upon those who are truly committed. Those who see marriage as defined by that piece of paper from City Hall and laws, they are those who go running to get a lawyer when things get tough. Believe it or not, there are MANY couples out there who have one of those pieces of paper from their local government, and yet who are living in adultery and fornication after having been married, illegitimately divorced by governmental decree, and re-attached to someone who, in God's eyes, is not their spouse for the taking.
So, the question remains....what do YOU choose to believe; the Bible, some "priest" or "pastor," one of the man-made, socially engineered theologies that literally fill pulpit teachings, Sunday school materials, "christian" books, radio, TV, and in discussions with family and friends? Taking responsibility for what one chooses to believe is utmost in the exercise of TRUE faith.
Jr
It is a prohibition against polygamy.
Patriarchs did not have Jesus' words, so His rules do not apply to them.
For example, Isaac had two wives who were sisters, but Moses prohibited to have sex with women who are sisters, later. It was not a sin for Isaac, but it was a sin for people under Moses.
Jesus made even more strict rules than Moses, so the polygamy as such is a sin now, but was not under Moses.
"Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery"Where did Jesus prohibit a man from having plural wives?
"Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery"
Lk 16:18
This de facto prohibits polygamy, because if polygamy was still allowed, marrying another women would not be adultery.
As I said, it is inherent to the original language, context, and tradition.Perhaps you could explain to us all how that verse prohibits polygyny in general when it specifically targets the taking of a wife's sister as an additional wife.
Jr
The definition of adultery is that you are with a woman that belongs to somebody else or that you belong to somebody else.What you appear to be missing here is that the verse in Luke that you quoted speaks directly to the scenario of any man who DIVORCES his wife to marry another, it is THEN adultery enters into the picture.
So, how did you miss that? A man marrying a second wife while keeping the first, that does not fall under the Lord's declaration for adultery.
So, please explain to us all this massive leap you have made in order to ignore the element of DIVORCE in what Jesus said.
Jr
The definition of adultery is that you are with a woman that belongs to somebody else or that you belong to somebody else.
If polygamy is allowed, you would not belong to your first wife.
In the New Testament, marriage is for the whole life, no divorce and no other woman.
As I said, it is inherent to the original language, context, and tradition.
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