If remarriage after divorce is considered adultery by God, then why isn’t another marriage WHILE STILL MARRIED?
Of course, it’s adultery. You get married. Sex outside of marriage is adultery, so any other *marriage* would also fall into that category.
Collectively, we are known as the Bride of Christ.
We should seek no other Husband, for He will seek no other Bride.
If remarriage after divorce is considered adultery by God, then why isn’t another marriage WHILE STILL MARRIED?
Of course, it’s adultery. You get married. Sex outside of marriage is adultery, so any other *marriage* would also fall into that category.
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All I know is that the Lord reason and ways are not the understanding of our ways. There were certain times I found it to be in operation it seems when a new dispensation was started again that polygamy took place.
To me when I read the scriptures on some topic we only get bits and pieces and not the back ground or the circumstance which for me the Book of Mormon fills in many of those gaps!
Please I don’t expect you to feel the same as I do, and I respect that, it would be nice if other could return the courtesy even if they don’t agree.
The Lord was very much involved in this plural marriage along with who was conceiving and also who was a wife or a handmaid wife.
Gen 29
15 ¶ And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
21 ¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
31 ¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
This continues on http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gen/30