Here’s a good story for those who shun their denominational names in favor of “only” Christian. 😉
| Polygamists hit the Web in search of ‘sister-wives’
Albert Morrison is a religious man. He prays, he reads the Bible and says he has a deep connection with Jesus. It is this devotion that helps explain why Albert and his wife, Sarah, are searching for a second wife. “David, Abraham, Jacob, Solomon — they all had multiple wives,” he said, referring to the four of the Bible’s most revered prophets. “The Bible never banned polygamy, it glorified it.” The Morrisons are part of a group of Evangelical Christian polygamists who believe that polygamy, the practice of taking more than one wife, is spiritually and even economically more favorable than monogamy. |
I included the Christianity 101 category for this post because I wonder if any readers have any Bible passages that refute the above abomination.
(And what passage does that guy use to show the Bible “glorifying” polygamy?!)
Sounds like a Romans 1 situation to us…God giving them over to their own lusts…
No polygamists at all found in the New Testament.
Jesus made it clear that 1 man and 1 woman united together = 1 marriage. Anything else was outside God’s plan and will. “The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye 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 cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.” (Matt 19:3-9)
Ephesians 5:33 urges that Christian man to love his “wife” (not, wives) even as he loves himself. I guess, as long as he is only one personality, he only needs one wife!! 🙂
1 Timothy 5:9 says the “widow indeed” is a woman who, amongst other qualities, was “the wife of one man.” She wasn’t part of a group marriage, nor divorced and remarried.
Titus 1:6 says that a bishop/elder is only qualified if he is “the husband of one wife.” No polygamist church leaders allowed!!
1 Peter 3:7 reminds men to give honour unto the “wife” (not “wives”), as unto the weaker vessel.
That’s our input — and that’s just a few of the Scriptures that address the topic!