Just because people in the OT were polygamous does not mean God condoned it.
Jesus clearly taught that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Now people are free to pick and choose and interpret scripture however they choose.
That doesn't mean they are right.
That doesn't mean that whenever a man sees a pretty young girl and sprouts a woody that it is God's will for him to have that girl.
So spare me the BS about polygamy being OK with God. Show me the scripture where God suspends the Ten Commandments and says that adultery is now o.k.
“So spare me the BS about polygamy being OK with God. Show me the scripture where God suspends the Ten Commandments...”
While you’re looking at the Ten Commandments, flip to the next chapter for a sec, where God is setting down ordinances. Exodus 21 is a pretty interesting chapter. Among other verses, check out 10: “If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.” Wouldn’t it have been so much easier just to say, “He shall not take him another wife?”
Go easy on the deluded poster, she has probably been fed the lies of mormonism so long she cannot read the Bible clearly any longer, if she ever could. The mormons often divert a discussion into the specious issue of ‘biblically condoned/taught’ polygamy when the issue at hand is the adultery of their peepstone false prophet, Joseph Smith (and later ‘Bringum Young’). Go easy on them, they are deeply deluded.
Folks who attempt to use the Old Testament to justify polygamy, should be asked to explain the 7th Commandment...
“You Shall Not Commit Adultery”
8 And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.After David has fallen and slept with Bathsheba, and killed Uriah, Samuel comes to him to tell him of the lord's punishment for his murder of Uriah, as part of that Samuel tells David how much he had and what he as lost. God Gave David his wives, that means God approved of them, God does not change therefore he still approves of Polygamy. This is a simple point to understand which does not excuse the horrific things that apparently were going on in this "community" I use the word loosely. In a day when Marriages were Common at 15 and 16, because of the projected lifespan, fine. That day has passed. There is IMHO no reason for any woman to marry either before she is ready or a man she does not want to. I believe in the laws which protect those too immature to make such decisions. I believe in the laws which protect minors from advances by dirty old or young men. Those have nothing to do with polygamy, and I wish someone would explain to me why otherwise logical Christians would rather see a couple of Guys "get hitched" (I refuse to call it a Marriage) than allow two women who want to to marry the same man who wants to marry them.