IrepChrist:
As a Christian if you have 2 women under your roof you are still an adulterer:..

Newfoundlove:
U can't use his life as a yardstick

IrepChrist:
1. As a Christian if you have 2 women under your roof you are still an adulterer Mark 10:8 ►

2. The found of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Laid a good example. The Late Pastor met his first wife, Esther Egbedire in the year 1941 during his time at Ile-Ife as a C&S prophet. Pa Akindayomi married two other women after Esther, they were named Deborah and Sisi Mi (the third wife was nicknamed). When he started the Redeemed Christian Church of God, by divine revelation, he divorced the last two wives because he came to the full understanding of marriage in the Holy Bible. Despite the fact that Pa. Akindayomi divorced his two last wives, he still took proper care of his children and this love was extended to the grandchildren.

3. Do not let anyone deceive you. God is never in support on polygamy. A man must love only his wife.

5 Jesus said, “Moses wrote that command for you because you refused to accept God’s teaching.
6 But when God made the world, ‘he made people male and female.’
7 ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.
8 And the two people will become one.’ So they are no longer two, but one.
9 God has joined them together, so no one should separate them.” - Mark 10 vs 5 - 9

Righteousness2:


The Word of God is the yardstick not his life.
He only obeyed the word of God.

Newfoundlove:
U can't use his life as a yardstick

Righteousness2:
The Word of God is the yardstick not his life.
He only obeyed the word of God.

Kobojunkie:
Wrong! Your papa-man did not obey the word of God since God never changed His mind regarding His decree in regard to marriage since the beginning. God cannot contradict His own everlasting word. Stop confusing the acts of men with the Word of God.

IrepChrist:
1. The law is for men not men for the law. The scripture is inspired by the wisdom of God. Given unto us as a token of his love.

2. Many homes today where polygamy is been practiced, Jealousy, rivalry and hatred is the order of the day hence God can't operate in such atmosphere. You don't have to derail an obvious truth.

Kobojunkie:
1. These statements of yours have no meaning or application in this here context.

2. You do not judge God's standard by the failings of men. Instead, you judge the failings of men by God's standard.

From the very beginning, God's Law regarding marriage never prohibited polygamy or polyandry - Genesis 2 vs 24. God never changed His mind in that regard. Man's failures in marriage are that, man's failures. It has nothing to do with God. Your mogs failure in marriage...his choice to divorce his wife's when God's Law does not prohibit the having of more than one spouse has absolutely nothing to do with God.

IrepChrist:
Corinthians 8:2 ►

Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.

onumadu:
I was going through posts here when I remembered that even Samuel's (the prophet) father Elkanah was a polygynist.
He had two wives Hannah (Samuel's mother) and Peninnah (his less favored wife).

In the story, the truth about God's attitude towards these things come through. GOD IS NOT MAN.
The less favored wife Peninnah was having children, while the favored wife Hannah was barren.
Hannah had to cry to God before God opened her womb.

Similar thing happen in the case of Jacob and his wives. Jacob's favorite wife Rachel was barren (God closed her womb initially), and the less favored one Leah was busy having children! In fact Rachael could not have children until she gave her maid Bilhah to Jacob as wife, and Bilhah got a baby for Jacob before God decided to open Rachael's womb.

The problem I have with AFRICAN (nay BLACK) "Christians" is that they totally refuse to use their brains. Even when evidence is clearly available even from the Bible, they still refuse to use those evidence.

The other problem I have with them is that they keep trying to humanize God. That is why they keep citing the "jealous God" idea describing the owner of the entire universe as some petty jealous being that is insecure in HIS relationship with things he created.

The problem with COMPULSORY MONOGAMY is that it may even be at the core of the failure of the human family system.
Today every other couple is talking about IVF and assisted reproduction, normalizing the role of the test tube in bringing humans into this planet.
Somehow, sex managed to become sin, never mind that it is GOD's preferred way of bringing humans into this planet.
When people talk about polygyny and condemning it, all they are fixed upon is SEX.
When these people stop worshiping sex, they will start getting the DIVINE understanding of such things.

NOTE: I deliberately mentioned the FAVORED AND LESS FAVORED in the wives, to show that all the wives cannot be equally loved.
Some will be more favored than others, but God chooses whom to favor (with children) and who not to favor. In fact God often chooses the opposite! He does that to prove that he is NOT HUMAN.

AntiChristian:
Sometimes, people are indeed honest enough to admit that the Bible really does not prohibit polygamy (polygyny). However, as a hedge against that admission, such ones may then resort to saying one of the following assertions:

"Yes, but God never condoned polygamy."
"Yes, God allowed it, but He was against polygamy."
"Polygamy was only man's idea, not God's".
"Yes, but God never approved of polygamy."

The passage involving 2 Samuel 12:8 rather clearly reveals otherwise.
"And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things."
2 Samuel 12:8.

The context of the verse is that of God, speaking through a prophet (Nathan), calling out David for David's sin of taking another man's wife (Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite), which is adultery indeed, and for setting up the death of Uriah the Hittite to try to hide David's sin.

Also, at the point in time of this situation, David had already been married to at least seven known-named wives. (1 Samuel 18:27, 25:42-43, 2 Samuel 3:2-5.)

But, in this verse 12 (above), God was not condemning David for all his wives! In fact, this verse 12 shows God Himself actually saying that HE was the One Who had GIVEN David His wives.

If God was against David's polygamy, He certainly would not have said that He had GIVEN David his wives.

But the LORD did not stop there. That verse 12 shows that the Lord took it even one step further than that! The LORD God even went on further to say that if David had wanted more wives, the Lord Himself said that He would have given David even more!

It was only because David had sinned, in committing adultery by taking another man's wife, and then causing that man's death to try to hide David's sin, that the Lord was calling him out through the prophet Nathan. There was no sin in the polygamy at all.

This is later confirmed that this was the only matter by 1 Kings 15:5, which says the following:

"Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. "
1 Kings 15:5.

Two verses before that, in 1 Kings 15:3, the Bible says that David's heart was perfect with the LORD God.

Very clearly, therefore, what all this shows is that God is the One Who gives wives, even when more than one wife.

This is, of course, confirmed by 1_Corinthians 7:17.

"But as God hath distributed to every man,
as the Lord hath called every one,
so let him walk.
And so ordain I in all churches."
1 Corinthians 7:17.

Be it
NO wife,
ONE wife, or
MORE THAN ONE wife,
it is only has God calls and gives.

As such, it is clear that the Bible does, in fact, explicitly show

"Yes, God did condone polygamy."
"Yes, God allowed it, and He was not against polygamy."
"Polygamy is not a man's idea, but God's".
"Yes, God did approve of polygamy."
In 2 Samuel 12:8, He Himself said so!

Biblical Polygamy
http://www.biblicalpolygamy.com/exegesis/god-said-he-gave-wives/

Lasgidi90:

Woooooooow, just wooooow. It's been a while since I met someone this sound intellectually. Big ups to you.

Lighthouse50:
Lie jews make up of two tribes JUDAH AND BENJAMIN Or probably half tribe of benjamin

onumadu:


Just google the meaning of "Jew" and go from there.
You are talking of the Judah nation when the kingdom divided into the Northern and Southern kingdoms in the Bible.
I'm talking of JEWS today. Even if others are now included in the term JEW, it means that "Judans" swallowed them up.
Point is that Benjamin disappeared like the rest of the other 10 tribes. Judah (Yehudah) is the Judaism of today.
Meaning that only Judah really survived. Judah is Israel today. Why?

onumadu:

Point is that Benjamin disappeared like the rest of the other 10 tribes. Judah (Yehudah) is the Judaism of today.
Meaning that only Judah really survived. Judah is Israel today. Why?

Kobojunkie:
I am afraid you are wrong about them disappearing. Instead, as God explained to them from the beginning in the Law of Moses, He had scattered to each and every language, every tribe and every nation of the world. And He will gather them all back when the time for that is come.

onumadu:
1. So, why did Judah not suffer the same level of scattering as other tribes?

2. BTW when Israel got independence in 1948 a lot of people believe that that prophesy was fulfilled.
As things stand today, the other tribes have been absorbed by Judah.

3. With God, nothing happens by chance. Where are the rest of Israelite? The thing about genealogy is that it is hardly about genes, but more about NAME.
If you conduct DNA test of people who claim to be Jews today, you may find that significant percentage of them may not be Jews, but the point is that JUDAH'S NAME SURVIVES while others don't.
.

IrepChrist:



Do you know the way God dealt with men before Christ is different from after Christ? yes because of obvious reasons, The New Covenant. Christ did not lay emphasis on the polygamous nature of men of old (though it was permissive for them) but he still insisted on one man one wife which was the will of God from the beginning in Genesis 3.
Please read Matthew 19:3-6 again.

IrepChrist:


Do you know the way God dealt with men before Christ is different from after Christ?

yes because of obvious reasons, The New Covenant. Christ did not lay emphasis on the polygamous nature of men of old (though it was permissive for them) but he still insisted on one man one wife which was the will of God from the beginning in Genesis 3.
Please read Matthew 19:3-6 again.

IrepChrist:

You don't have to derail an obvious truth.

IrepChrist:
1. Do you know the way God dealt with men before Christ is different from after Christ? yes because of obvious reasons,

2. The New Covenant. Christ did not lay emphasis on the polygamous nature of men of old (though it was permissive for them) but he still insisted on one man one wife which was the will of God from the beginning in Genesis 3.
Please read Matthew 19:3-6 again.