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Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 9:24pm On Jun 14
Expanse2020:
were scare to share your proof
Abi evidence no de 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Since you already know about these people you mentioned then it means you and I have read the same source. So if you want to say that it is not True that God only started favouring them ONLY AFTER they were into polygamy, then show it 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

But, you can't because it is exactly as i said. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 9:27pm On Jun 14
Expanse2020:
K
According to bible he had a wife
Do continue about the others I mentioned too
A wife means "one wife" so case closed.

For the others i already pointed out that "All of them all got the favour of God BEFORE they went into polygamy."
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 9:28pm On Jun 14
Dtruthspeaker:
Since you already know about these people you mentioned then it means you and I have read the same source. So if you want to say that it is not True that God only started favouring them ONLY AFTER they were into polygamy, then show it 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

But, you can't because it is exactly as i said. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
proof your with scripture and let me proof mine with scripture too
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 9:29pm On Jun 14
Dtruthspeaker:
A wife means "one wife" so case closed.

For the others i already pointed out that "All of them all got the favour of God BEFORE they went into polygamy."
You are just repeating a sentence
Alaye proof your point nii
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:30pm On Jun 14
Expanse2020:
answer my question first I was the one who asked you first
So you know the question makes no practical sense!🤔

Expanse2020:
if he didn't abolished it so how come those that doing polygamy... Was said that one wife one husband of he didn't abolished it. How come swine, dog, pig that was forbidden was later be eatable to the christians.
Jesus was a Jew so he kept all those laws but now that his disciples must go and make disciples of people from all the nations such laws no longer applies {Act 15:28-29} because it was meant only for the nation of Israel until the arrival of the Christ! Deuteronomy 18:18-19
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 9:44pm On Jun 14
Expanse2020:
You are just repeating a sentence
Alaye proof your point nii
🤣🤣🤣 You are repeating yourself na so you force me to repeat what I have already answered you.

A wife means "one wife" so case closed.🤣🤣🤣

Plus, i even answered that
For the others i already pointed out that "All of them all got the favour of God BEFORE they went into polygamy." 🤣🤣🤣

But because you don't have any reasonable thing to say again is why you are just making noise.🤣🤣🤣
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 9:47pm On Jun 14
Expanse2020:
proof your with scripture and let me proof mine with scripture too
🤣🤣🤣🤣. 3 Times i have already answered you that you have already the same scriptures i read. So if you want to say that it is not True that God only started favouring them ONLY AFTER they were into polygamy, then you have a duty and the burden of showing it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

But, you can't because it is exactly as i said. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 10:01pm On Jun 14
Dtruthspeaker:
Bros, you are wrong here. Polygamy is a sin because it contains adultery.

What you fail to appreciate is that is an old sin like prostitution is to women. That is why Genesis even tells us who was the first to break God's Law of one man,one wife which now even became the tradition of the world which God destroyed. A tradition people keep unwisely boasting in saying "its our custom and tradition/I'm a traditional man".

You fail to see that it is a sin because it is the old pagan idolism that you have been accustomed to.

It is not for nought that Genesis shows us who started the tradition of polygamy and to think that he is even a seed of Cain. Now, you see why Christ lineage came through Seth, the people who called on God!i This clearly shows us that God never created nor ordained polygamy.
Who was speaking to David here?
What did He give to David?

2 Samuel 12:8.
"I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that were not enough, I would have given you even more."


Is God a partaker of sin?

God's ideal plan did not include POLYGAMY!
God allowed polygamy in the olden times because of the frailties of men.

God will not ALLOW sin in any form.


Jesus came to RESTORE us the God's original order of Marriage.

A Christian will NOT be Polygamous even if its NOT a Sin.

However, an Unbeliever who was Polygamous need NOT divorce his Wives when he comes to Christ.


Explain why God allowed Solomon to be the successor of David seeing that (according to your thinking) he's a product of Adultery by the man after His heart.
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 10:13pm On Jun 14
TenQ:
Who was speaking to David here?
What did He give to David?

2 Samuel 12:8.
"I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that were not enough, I would have given you even more."
...
And as i asked the Muslim guy who raised it, so do you say that therefore by this statement David was given everybody's wife wife in Israel and Judah? If it was so, how then did God charge him for taking Uriah's wife, since you say that God gave him everybody's wife?

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight?

Count 1) thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,

Count 2) and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,

Count 3) and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 10:42pm On Jun 14
Dtruthspeaker:
And as i asked the Muslim guy who raised it, so do you say that therefore by this statement David was given everybody's wife wife in Israel and Judah? If it was so, how then did God charge him for taking Uriah's wife, since you say that God gave him everybody's wife?

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight?

Count 1) thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,

Count 2) and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,

Count 3) and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
I never said that God gave David everybody's wife but Saul's Wives.
I believe that God did NOT lie in saying that He gave Saul's Wives (plural) to David.
Uriah was ALIVE when David took his wife and then killed him BUT Saul was DEAD when David became King.



Let me give you a challenge:
1. Find me just ONE Sin in the New Testament that is NOT a sin in the Old Testament!

2. Find me just ONE Moral Sin in the Old Testament that is NOT a sin in the New Testament!



Except if all the Patriarch were in active sin and God was silent!
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 10:52pm On Jun 14
TenQ:
I never said that God gave David everybody's wife but Saul's Wives.
I believe that God did NOT lie in saying that He gave Saul's Wives (plural) to David...
Read it again it is not only Saul's wives he was given in that passage.

The passage expressly says that
"I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. i gave you the house of Israel and Judah."

So, by your understanding in the second attached leg of that passage, are you saying that even the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose) were given to David to wife or husband in addition to their wives, since God Said He even gave him their "house" also in addition to Saul's wife as you say?
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 12:03am On Jun 15
Dtruthspeaker:
Read it again it is not only Saul's wives he was given in that passage.

The passage expressly says that
"I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. i gave you the house of Israel and Judah."

So, by your understanding in the second attached leg of that passage, are you saying that even the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose) were given to David to wife or husband in addition to their wives, since God Said He even gave him their "house" also in addition to Saul's wife as you say?
I guess I should simplify it for you

For what purpose did God gave David
1. The House of Saul
2. The Kingdom of Saul (House of Israel)
3. The Wives of Saul?
etc



Secondly,
1. Exo 20:14:
"You shall not commit adultery."


If I understood you correctly,
You are saying that God condoned the sin of ADULTERY in the Old Testament!
Abraham, Jacob, David, Gideon etc


2. You should tell me why God did not address the sin of ADULTERY of the man with two wives here

Deu 21:15-17:
"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: Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his."


3. You seem not to know that there was even a law for the treatment and protection of Concubines in the Law of Moses for Isrealite Daughters sold as a servant to another Israelite.

Exodus 21:7-11 -
"If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has violated her. If he selects her for his son, he must treat her as a daughter. If he marries another woman, he must not decrease the first woman's food, clothing, or marital rights. If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money."

In those days, people like David had 3 Concubines, Abraham had 1 concubine (Hagar),





Original Intent of God:
"According to Genesis 2:21-24, God's original intent was for marriage to be between one man and one woman, and that has never changed."

Christianity's View:
"Jesus Christ has restored the sacred institution of marriage to its original character, and concubinage is ranked with the sins of fornication and adultery."



Help me solve this problem
Alhaji Anti-christian with ALL his four wives got born again. He had married five times but divorced his first wife before marrying his last wife to maintain four wives. Each of his five wives have three children each.
They all come to your church and you are the pastor.


What is your Christ based advice
1. To Alhaji Anti-christian
2. To each of the current four wives
3. To the first wife.
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by AntiisIam(m):
Expanse2020:
Herod and heriad one example
Adam and eve according to bible too
What did they get is it favour or wrath from god
Sule, you don start again with this your taqqiya abi

Herod had ten wives not 1 wife

On the other hand, Adam also had one wife but his wife and him disobeyed God's commandment. Do your research thoroughly before talking next time
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 11:39am On Jun 15
Expanse2020:
So Abraham fall to due to polygamy
Job fall too
Jacob fall too
Solomon fall too
Moses fall too right
Khai!
When spiritual IQ is at sub freezing temperatures!

The meaning is that The fall of Adam made all humans to have imperfect natures that does things outside God's perfect will.
This is why ALL humans with no exception are sinners by nature: just as like pigs by nature are prone to filth humans are prone to sin!
SMH!!


How many wives did God the originator of MARRIAGE give to Adam? Jesus returned us to that standard!

Mat 19:4-5:
"And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall join to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?"
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 4:23pm On Jun 15
TenQ:
I guess I should simplify it for you

For what purpose did God gave David
1. The House of Saul
2. The Kingdom of Saul (House of Israel)
3. The Wives of Saul?
etc
By asking me this question, do you now see and agree that your opinion here is wrong? For clearly, you are saying that God David Saul's wives, the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose things) in addition to their wives which you now find it difficult to say.

If you agree that you are wrong, then i can proceed to answer the questions you asked, so that we are both sure of what is right. And right you think you are right and i am just want to make certain that you are right. But if you agree you are wrong, then we can both examine my views to see if me too I'm wrong or right
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 5:23pm On Jun 15
TenQ:
Khai!
When spiritual IQ is at sub freezing temperatures!

[
i]The meaning is that The fall of Adam made all humans to have imperfect natures that does things outside God's perfect will.[/i]

Ehen so the down fall of Adam course all your own sin... Since God didn't had the plan
How you take know God didn't have the plan
Did God said he didn't plan it that we will live on Earth before



[/i]
How many wives did God the originator of MARRIAGE give to Adam? Jesus returned us to that standard!
So Abraham
Jacob
David
Solomon
Moses they all made mistake by having more than a wife ... Especially Abraham and Moses right...
That Jesus come and return you to the nature ... Changing the law right

Mat 19:4-5:
"And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall join to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?"
what if the verse were addressing people following Sodom and Gomorrah and you misquote it ..
The foundation is Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve




This is why ALL humans with no exception are sinners by nature: just as like pigs by nature are prone to filth humans are prone to sin!
SMH!!
[i]ehen so na everybody automatically a sinner even the small a day, month baby that died too he don get sin and will end in hell be that[I/]

The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.”* – Ezekiel
This what the God of bible said
Why would Jesus responsible for my sin
Why would I be responsible for Adam sin
🥱
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 6:00pm On Jun 15
Dtruthspeaker:
By asking me this question, do you now see and agree that your opinion here is wrong? For clearly, you are saying that God David Saul's wives, the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose things) in addition to their wives which you now find it difficult to say.

If you agree that you are wrong, then i can proceed to answer the questions you asked, so that we are both sure of what is right. And right you think you are right and i am just want to make certain that you are right. But if you agree you are wrong, then we can both examine my views to see if me too I'm wrong or right
I other words, your questions was wrongly perceived.

In context each of these were given to David for different purposes.

However,
You seem only to respond to snippets of my posts. You avoid issues that conflict with your views. This isn't good!

Any solid Theology must stand up to scrutiny!
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 6:03pm On Jun 15
Expanse2020:
what if the verse were addressing people following Sodom and Gomorrah and you misquote it ..
The foundation is Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve




[i]ehen so na everybody automatically a sinner even the small a day, month baby that died too he don get sin and will end in hell be that[I/]

The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.”* – Ezekiel
This what the God of bible said
Why would Jesus responsible for my sin
Why would I be responsible for Adam sin
🥱
So, tell me!
Why did Allah chase Adam and his unborn descendants out of paradise when only Adam and his wife ate from the tree!


Adams descendants are being punished for his sins!?
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Dtruthspeaker: 7:03pm On Jun 15
TenQ:
I other words, your questions was wrongly perceived.

In context each of these were given to David for different purposes.

However,
You seem only to respond to snippets of my posts. You avoid issues that conflict with your views. This isn't good!

Any solid Theology must stand up to scrutiny!
Scrutiny dictates that "By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth". Peter Abelard

You already appreciate that i do not believe your view is right and therefore I have asked you questions on your view in which you say God gave David Saul's wives. And now i have pointed out that by your interpretation, in the second leg of that passage God gave David, the the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose things) and their wives for him to husband/wife them all.

And now that you see the second leg's interpretation contradicts you view on the first keg, you now seek to break your interpretation of that passage and depart from it, by moving post to plead different purposes.

This clearly proves that you are bending the passage according to your views. For the passage is already self explanatory and it's purposes are clear, which according to your interpretation, God gave David Saul's wives. the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose things) and their wives too.

So, after you have first given an interpretation to the passage, now the second leg of that passage points out that your interpretation of the first passage is wrong, you have now taken it upon yourself to divide and appropriate interpretations to them. A clear case of arbitrary selective judgement This is fraudulent and Wrong!

You can't interpret Akara as from beans and then say that moi moi is not from beans.

So, do you now see that you are very wrong and that the scripture does not support your view?
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 7:48pm On Jun 15
Dtruthspeaker:
Scrutiny dictates that "By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth". Peter Abelard

You already appreciate that i do not believe your view is right and therefore I have asked you questions on your view in which you say God gave David Saul's wives. And now i have pointed out that by your interpretation, in the second leg of that passage God gave David, the the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose things) and their wives for him to husband/wife them all.

And now that you see the second leg's interpretation contradicts you view on the first keg, you now seek to break your interpretation of that passage and depart from it, by moving post to plead different purposes.

This clearly proves that you are bending the passage according to your views. For the passage is already self explanatory and it's purposes are clear, which according to your interpretation, God gave David Saul's wives. the men of Isreal and Judah too (homose things) and their wives too.

So, after you have first given an interpretation to the passage, now the second leg of that passage points out that your interpretation of the first passage is wrong, you have now taken it upon yourself to divide and appropriate interpretations to them. A clear case of arbitrary selective judgement This is fraudulent and Wrong!

You can't interpret Akara as from beans and then say that moi moi is not from beans.

So, do you now see that you are very wrong and that the scripture does not support your view?
I hear you!
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 8:44pm On Jun 15
TenQ:
So, tell me!
Why did Allah chase Adam and his unborn descendants out of paradise when only Adam and his wife ate from the tree!


Adams descendants are being punished for his sins!?
No
Father sin / father guilt are not proclaimed on son .
Everybody account for his sins. Ok
and that what bible also said that why I showed you the verse earlier..
The creation of Adam and his descendants (including us was said to have live here on earth initially that is our destiny not the guilty or punishment of Adam ... Adam was just a channel for us to be here) don't mixed it together..
Adam Sin on his own with her wife and also asked for forgiveness and he pardoned them also ..
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 8:48pm On Jun 15
MaxInDHouse:
If your Allah once allowed drinking alcoholic beverages but today forbids it then your question makes no practical sense. So answer the question if you are sincere with yourself!🤔




Did Jesus abolish any law?
Can you quote a law where God said a man should marry more than one wife?🤔
If God didn't allow it
Why would
Abraham
Moses
Jacob
Solomon..
The sons of god have more than a wife
While would God give law on wives and thier children inheritance if it not allowed 🤔
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 8:54pm On Jun 15
MaxInDHouse:
So you know the question makes no practical sense!🤔


Jesus was a Jew so he kept all those laws but now that
his disciples must go and make disciples of people from all the nations such laws no longer applies {Act 15:28-29} because it was meant only for the nation of Israel until the arrival of the Christ
! Deuteronomy 18:18-19
So the laws are for the Jew and Jesus practices Judaism right ...
He kept all the law, he followed all the law
But his followers throwed the law away ...
Keep the one meaningful (favour the west) to them
Through the God law away because not favour them right
That why Judeo-Christian was formed and later transformed to the Christianity. ..
Where you abandon God words and inscribe the one favour you
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m):
Expanse2020:
If God didn't allow it
Why would
Abraham
Moses
Jacob
Solomon..
The sons of god have more than a wife
While would God give law on wives and thier children inheritance if it not allowed 🤔
The first man to have two wives in the Bible is Lamech {Genesis 4:19} and he set a bad example {Genesis 4:26} in many cases God allows some things for humans to learn on their own but when Jesus came he reminded his listeners that God has set the standard regarding marriage by giving Adam who is the world's richest man only one wife. Matthew 19:4
So that is the standard if we wants to live in Paradise!
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m):
Expanse2020:
So the laws are for the Jew and Jesus practices Judaism right ...
He kept all the law, he followed all the law
But his followers throwed the law away ...
Keep the one meaningful (favour the west) to them
Through the God law away because not favour them right
That why Judeo-Christian was formed and later transformed to the Christianity. ..
Where you abandon God words and inscribe the one favour you
Jesus kept the Mosaic laws because it's only Israelites who kept God's laws that supposed to be his corulers. Revelation 7:5-8 compare to Genesis 12:3

But since the Israelites themselves abandoned the covenant that made them God's special possession {Exodus 19:5} the invitation to rule with the Christ was blown open to people from other nations {John 1:11-12 compare to Matthew 22:2-14} so that former covenant is no longer binding on those who will rule with the Christ whether they are Jewish background or not! Jeremiah 31:31-33

So as the promised Christ Jesus fulfilled all what the law covenant required for Israelites to know that God played His own part of the covenant but it was the Israelites themselves that failed to play their own part of the covenant! Matthew 23:37-38

Today that old covenant is no longer binding on whoever becomes a disciple of Christ since God has chosen another nation {Matthew 21:43} and established another covenant with them {Jeremiah 31:31-33} that new nation began with the Born Again Christians and most of them are not from Israel therefore it makes no practical sense for them to continue with a covenant that has been broken!
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by TenQ: 4:57am On Jun 16
Expanse2020:
No
Father sin / father guilt are not proclaimed on son .
Everybody account for his sins. Ok
and that what bible also said that why I showed you the verse earlier..
The creation of Adam and his descendants (including us was said to have live here on earth initially that is our destiny not the guilty or punishment of Adam ... Adam was just a channel for us to be here) don't mixed it together..
Adam Sin on his own with her wife and also asked for forgiveness and he pardoned them also ..
Allah pardoned them and still chased them out of paradise a place of enjoyment to the earth a place of pain and death!?

Qur’an 2:36
“But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that [condition] in which they had been. And We said, ‘Go down, [all of you], as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time.’”


Allah even caused enmities between them: things that do not happen in paradise! SMH!

All Adams children/descendants as a consequence are trapped on this earth as ENEMIES because of this! Make it make sense!
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by Expanse2020(m): 4:49pm On Jun 16
MaxInDHouse:
The first man to have two wives in the Bible is Lamech {Genesis 4:19} and he set a bad example {Genesis 4:26} in many cases God allows some things for humans to learn on their own but when Jesus came he reminded his listeners that God has set the standard regarding marriage by giving Adam who is the world's richest man only one wife. Matthew 19:4
So that is the standard if we wants to live in Paradise!
,,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔
Marry two wives is bad example
I don't needs to argue you told me already is out of z God plan...
What is the point 🤣🤣🤣
Re: Does God Permit Polygamy In The New Testament? by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:54pm On Jun 16
Expanse2020:
,,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔
Marry two wives is bad example
I don't needs to argue you told me already is out of z God plan...
What is the point 🤣🤣🤣
Point is God gave the world's richest man only one wife so there is no reason why those who are less richer should think of taking more than one!🙂
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