Marriage Equality for Billings, MT Man, Two Wives

[Monterrey]

Apparently they have never been around polygamists, mass perversion.

[Aquila]

The only prohibition to "polygamy" in the NT is found with regards to elders/overseers and deacons/servants:

1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Timothy 3:12
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

We also see a reference in Titus regarding elders/overseers:

Titus 1:6
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

I believe that this is because God's perfect will is monogamy. It should be noted that as the church expanded into foreign lands where polygamy was legal, men with multiple wives were welcomed into the church, as were their wives and children. However, these men were prohibited from serving in leadership and were encouraged to teach their children to live monogamously.

So, the church has never really condemned polygamists as being outside of the scope of the Gospel. They are just unable to serve in ministry. Monogamy was to be introduced as a philosophy for the next generation. Monogamy reflecting one Lord and one faith (church).

[Aquila]

And regarding all these "lawsuits". Paul admonished the church with regards to going before the civil courts of this world:

1 Corinthians 6:1-8 King James Version (KJV)
6 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Christians shouldn't be a party to lawsuits or any proceedings that would involve going before the unbelieving courts of this world.

[Fionn mac Cumh]

Originally Posted by good samaritan

Are you a Christian?

Yes. Does that give me the right to stick my nose in everyone's love life?

[good samaritan]

Originally Posted by Fionn mac Cumh

Yes. Does that give me the right to stick my nose in everyone's love life?

Just wondering.

[Aquila]

This Bible verse absolutely blows away any notion of polygamy:

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.

[deacon blues]

Matthew 19:4-8

Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

NO WHERE in Scripture does polygamy work well. Jealousy, betrayal, immorality, incest, infidelity, rape, prostitution, lies, deception, etc all fill the stories of those characters in the Bible who practiced such.

It's a sin.

[Monterrey]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Matthew 19:4-8

Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

NO WHERE in Scripture does polygamy work well. Jealousy, betrayal, immorality, incest, infidelity, rape, prostitution, lies, deception, etc all fill the stories of those characters in the Bible who practiced such.

It's a sin.

Absolutely.

[Bowas]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Matthew 19:4-8

Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

NO WHERE in Scripture does polygamy work well. Jealousy, betrayal, immorality, incest, infidelity, rape, prostitution, lies, deception, etc all fill the stories of those characters in the Bible who practiced such.

It's a sin.

And as God set forth the pattern, He has only had one bride at a time.

[Monterrey]

Originally Posted by Bowas

And as God set forth the pattern, He has only had one bride at a time.

So has He had more than one bride?

Just curious.