First, a date from the internet thread. Now one about polygamy.
Hmmmm.............
Really. I came across this right after the "Single's Conference" thread. I guess this is the place to come after "over doing it" at the Single's Conference? :
I think polygamy is wrong for the Apostolic, but I think the US needs to repeal its polygamy laws. In the southwest there are various polygamous Mormon groups that aren't hurting anyone and that are trying to keep to themselves and raise their families in their belief system. I definately think law enforement needs to step in if teenagers are being forced into marriage in those polygamous groups, but if consenting adults want to practice polygamy, so be it. Having those people live in constant fear of being "found out" and having their compounds raided and whatnot is wrong.
GOD BLESS!
Bro. Alex
They have hurt many.
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Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
When my husband expresses interest in getting his second wife (because the Bible doesn't prohibit him) I'll let him know that his second wife will be his only wife.
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Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
I think what Paul meant he wrote a Bishop should be the husband of one wife,is that a man should be faithful to His wife and not be running around doing things with other women that husbands and wifes do.
I have heard that polygamy was practiced in the imperial roman world,but it was forbidden in the christian church.
But if my understanding is correct if a Bishop is married He should be a one woman man.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
I couldn't stand having more than one wife too much pms.
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People who are always looking for fault,can find it easily all they have to do,is look into their mirror.
There they can find plenty of fault.
This is something we face in Africa all the time. When a person gets saved, you cannot force them to get rid of their other wives and only keep the first one, because those other wives have no means of support for them and their many children. I know the UPC group usually tells the man to keep the wives (in name only) and support them, but to only have marital relations with the first wife. That's probably the best answer I've heard.
Not sure how Biblical that instruction is...and it seems pretty cruel to the remaining wives, unless they are given the freedom to divorce and remarry.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
I didn't even think of Africa with this polygamy question, but I had an Africana Studies class last semester, and my Africana Studies professor was from a family where his dad had two wives. We discussed polygamy in his class, and from what he said it seemed normal in his part of Africa. I guess if I were an Apostolic missionary there where it's the cultural way of doing things then I would not be like the UPC missionaries that say to only be intimate with their first wife. I'd say they ought to continue with their plural wives and whatnot, but they obviously can't be bishops or deacons or elders.
BUT...it also doesn't say 'Husband, love your wife'!
You are such a hoot.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
We ran into the "multiple wives" thing in HK. Many of the men in HK had wives and children back in China. When they moved across the border into HK - which was a British colony for many many years - they married again, sometimes later moving the wife in China to HK later.
You can't do much about it really. You have to take them where they're at and go from there .... let them work it out. But no more marriages after getting born again.
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Good catch!
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