biblia1:


Who is talking there rather than Paul and an ORDINARY LETTER OF ASSUMPTION AND PERSONAL VIEWS to Timothy in form of piece of advice.
Paul wasn't saying that its a divine commandments but just an advice which contradicted plans of Almighty God Himself.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day SEVEN women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Genesis 25:1 Then AGAIN Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.


Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have TWO wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


Exodus 21:10 If he take him ANOTHER WIFE; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


Notice: Not all Paul advice in from God and Jesus teaches e.g

1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by PERMISSION, and NOT of commandment. said Paul

donbachi:
it's also recorded in the bible,that jacob married rachel and leah..Gen 29

Firebomber:


I guess you dont know woman and jealously that's the reason why you think the second one will stop Adam from eating it.

Well from my own perspective of woman, the second wife will make Adam eat from the second tree of life. Or what did you think?

biblia1:



Who is talking there rather than Paul and an ORDINARY LETTER OF ASSUMPTION AND PERSONAL VIEWS to Timothy in form of piece of advice.
Paul wasn't saying that its a divine commandments but just an advice which contradicted plans of Almighty God Himself.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day SEVEN women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Genesis 25:1 Then AGAIN Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have TWO wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Exodus 21:10 If he take him ANOTHER WIFE; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Notice: Not all Paul advice in from God and Jesus teaches e.g

1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by PERMISSION, and NOT of commandment. said Paul

Liveair:


Genesis 25:6
(ABRAHAM)
but while he was still alive, he gave presents to the sons his other wives had borne him.
Genesis 31:50
(JACOB)
Leban went on, "if you ill-treat my daughters or marry other women..."
2 Samuel 3:2
(DAVID)
The following six sons, in the order of their birth, were born to David at Hebron: Amnon, whose mother was Ahinoam...,Chileab, whose mother was Abigail..., Absalom...

From the foregoing, the passages you quoted were mere letters sent to Timothy from Paul. Those were clearly Paul's personal opinion not Gods opinion.

flames01:


What will you do if you discover that the celebrant has girlfriends and fvck members of CWO?

And what happens when Catholic Church allows priests to marry and have kids?

You will leave the Church, abi?

biblia1:


Who is talking there rather than Paul and an ORDINARY LETTER OF ASSUMPTION AND PERSONAL VIEWS to Timothy in form of piece of advice.
Paul wasn't saying that its a divine commandments but just an advice which contradicted plans of Almighty God Himself.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day SEVEN women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Genesis 25:1 Then AGAIN Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.


Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have TWO wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


Exodus 21:10 If he take him ANOTHER WIFE; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


Notice: Not all Paul advice in from God and Jesus teaches e.g

1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by PERMISSION, and NOT of commandment. said Paul

hopefulLandlord:


A wise person says it out loud - HopefulLandlord

Randy100:
If a priest is caught in the act you described above, he is suspended from celebrating mass. And the church can never allow priest to marry because it is a voluntary vocation. And finally if the church allows that, then, I won't go to church again.

biblia1:



Who is talking there rather than Paul and an ORDINARY LETTER OF ASSUMPTION AND PERSONAL VIEWS to Timothy in form of piece of advice.
Paul wasn't saying that its a divine commandments but just an advice which contradicted plans of Almighty God Himself.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day SEVEN women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Genesis 25:1 Then AGAIN Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.


Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have TWO wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


Exodus 21:10 If he take him ANOTHER WIFE; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


Notice: Not all Paul advice in from God and Jesus teaches e.g

1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by PERMISSION, and NOT of commandment. said Paul

theoldpretender:


Ah,I see what you did there...you makavelli...you.

The verse refers to a future calamity befalling Israel....where most of the men would have died in battle...and many women would have been left behind. (Seen in many calamites,including the end of WW2, where women outnumbered men in Berlin, Germany.




A while after Sarah his first wife died., sports fan.

Hagar would have been a better idea, y'know...




As Jesus said eventually, the original intention was one man, one wife. But as you know, man does disobey God's word...so God essentially throws in advice to make a bad situation berable for the effects of sin.



See as above. In your opinion...God is condoning polygamy. In my opinion....God is providing advice for the mittigation of living in a sinful world.



Out of context.

enilove:



1 Timothy 3:1-3 KJV
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
[2] A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
[3] Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

flames01:


Do you know how many priests are accused of fornication in the diocese of Philadelphia in the United States? 300 Priests!

You may also be surprised that many of the victims are kids!

And will it interest you to know that nothing had been done yet about it other than to suspend the Bishop?

I am a Catholic, but my being a Catholic is not determined by the behavior of a priest since the priest isn't the person that founded the Catholic Church. My faith is bound to Jesus and not a priest or Bishop.

If you allow the misdeed of a pastor or priest to control your Christianity, then you are not a serious Christian.

afroniger:


Then that god of the bible is a god of contradictions because he tolerated the old testament patriachs' philandering and polygamous lifestyle and even prospered and validated them. The number two verse you quoted is too ambiguous to definitely bar a bishop from having more than one wife because it is still subject to interpretation. As a matter of fact, the entire bible is subject to interpretation which is why there are so many sects of the religion with different doctrines. Even nature itself tolerates and validates polygamy. Why is the entire bible filled with so much contradictions??

Randy100:
I didn't tell you that their misdeed will affect my relationship with God. I was merely telling you that the Catholic church is so unique in not allowing their priest to marry because marriage is like a clog in the wheel of the spread of the gospel. "Combining family wahala with church is not funny".

theoldpretender:


1. Doesn't mean God approved of it...and as you know...the bible shows that polygamy has a LOT of bad side effects.

2.Then there is this explanation

[Note: one of the two main purposes of concubinage (the other being to provide an heir in a barren marriage)--an economically very expensive expedient in the ancient world--was to keep the family from falling below 'critical mass'. The mortality rate was so high ("as many as one in two children did not survive to the age of five" [OT:FAI:19]), and the labor demand was so high, that additional means of renewal (other than just the single-wife of the ideal) were sometimes necessary:



· "Those labor requirements in early Israel were especially intense for several reasons: cropping patterns, with their seasonal demands for many hands to do certain sowing or harvesting tasks within a relatively short window of environmental opportunity; sporadic needs for terrace maintenance and land clearing; a constant set of time-consuming daily procedures for tending to livestock, securing water, and transforming food products to comestibles. The number of persons needed for the family, as the primary, self-sufficient economic unit, to perform the myriad tasks in a regime with critical labor-intensive periods was greater than a nuclear family could supply. Extended or compound families were essential for survival." [OT:FAI, 18]



· "Concubines are women without dowry who include among their duties providing children to the family. Childbearing was an important function in the ancient world, where survival of the family, and often survival at all, was tenuous at best. " [BBC, at Gen 35.21ff]



· " A concubine was a true wife, though of secondary rank. This is indicated, for example, by the references to a concubine’s “husband” (Jud 19:3), the “father-in-law” (Jud 19:4), “son-in-law” (Jud 19:5). Thus, the concubine was not a kept mistress, and did not cohabit with a man unless married to him. The institution itself is an offshoot of polygamy." [TWOT, s.v. concubine/pilgsh]





Sauce

Just keep that in mind.

henryobinna:

The question is does God prefer his type? Not whether you prefer his type or not

Liveair:

All you have written here shows nowhere polygamy was disapproved by God.

flames01:


It may also interest you to know that the Catholic Church is already experimenting with priest marriage in the United States

biblia1:



Who is talking there rather than Paul and an ORDINARY LETTER OF ASSUMPTION AND PERSONAL VIEWS to Timothy in form of piece of advice.
Paul wasn't saying that its a divine commandments but just an advice which contradicted plans of Almighty God Himself.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day SEVEN women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Genesis 25:1 Then AGAIN Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.


Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have TWO wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


Exodus 21:10 If he take him ANOTHER WIFE; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


Notice: Not all Paul advice in from God and Jesus teaches e.g

1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by PERMISSION, and NOT of commandment. said Paul

post=70410992:
A fool says in his heart that there is no GOD....Holy Bible!



Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, or you will be just like him....... Proverb 26:4
END OF DISCUSSION

kalu61:
The only sensible comment from you

post=70417847:

This is the only sensible comment since you were 15 years.
Happy 18th year birthday to you today!

Grupo:


I guess Funke Adejumo, Enoch Adeboye, David Oyedepo and all the other Yoruba criminals extorting money from people in the name of God are Igbos, right?

biblia1:



Who is talking there rather than Paul and an ORDINARY LETTER OF ASSUMPTION AND PERSONAL VIEWS to Timothy in form of piece of advice.
Paul wasn't saying that its a divine commandments but just an advice which contradicted plans of Almighty God Himself.

Isaiah 4:1 And in that day SEVEN women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Genesis 25:1 Then AGAIN Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.


Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have TWO wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


Exodus 21:10 If he take him ANOTHER WIFE; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


Notice: Not all Paul advice in from God and Jesus teaches e.g

1 Corinthians 7:6 But I speak this by PERMISSION, and NOT of commandment. said Paul


You have quoted sharp sharp 'not all advice from Paul are from God ' like really When it comes to a woman should cover her hair, a woman should submit like a fool, a women should keep quiet in church, you won't remember that all what Paul said is not from God. You try!

theoldpretender:


No, the Bible shows that when men disobey God, or when things don't go according to plan, God does have a plan to make things better in the midst of this sin affected world.