Polygamy in the Bible

[TK Burk]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Actually yes. Missionary Bobby Wendel told a story about an Ethiopian man who had two wives and had been saved. He brought his entire family to church and they all were saved. Then the UPCI church they attended demanded that he divorce his second wife and make arrangements to determine who would raise his children. The man began to make arrangements to divorce his second wife and put her in a hotel room away from home with his children from her. But here's some background. In their community a divorced woman is regarded as a whore and treated like one. They typically end up in squalor, prostitutes, or sex slaves. This church had church the night before his divorce was to be finalized, but this man didn't show up. After the service ministers from the church went to his home and no one was home. They went to the hotel to see if the second wife might know where he was, and she was gone. At the last moment, he decided he loved his second wife too much to do that to her. They never saw the family again.

This is why Jesus said we must count the cost.... Evidently he did and it was too high.

Tough choices had to be made by those in the First Century also. If you were a Jew, you forfeited everything to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. Even today, Muslim converts often convert knowing it may cost them horrendous persecution or even their lives. But regardless of the cost, if it's right, it's right! (See Mark 8:34-38; 1Peter 4:13-16)