Why does God look so favorably upon the prophets in the Old Testament who had more than one wife? Abraham?
He was told his descendants would be as numerous as the sands on the beach, and the stars in the sky. Isaac (later Israel) have several wives.
David also had multiple wives. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob find exceptional favor with the Lord, yet they were polygamists.
I do find it interesting about David however. He had multiple wives, yet still lusted after a woman he couldn’t have: someone else’s wife.
What I have come to understand after much pondering was the composition of Jesus bloodline .
The need for plural wives and concubines which from the world point of view might seem heartless toward women.
For me I come to understand that why some women could be wives why others were concubines.
Those who were under the covenant could be married as wives and those who were outside of the covenant was considered concubines.
David and his wives and concubines many was a very rough patch and questionable character such as prophet Hosea who took Gomer the harlot as a wife.
Hosea 1
2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
THAN IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT HOW JESUS TOOK ON THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD WHICH WAS COURSING THROUGH HIS VEINS WAS HISTORY OF THE DNA OF ALL THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN PLACE ON THE EARTH AND ONLY THE GOD WOULD KNOW WHICH HOW TO INCLUDE THOSE WHO WERE NOT UNDER THE CONVENANT THROUGH PLURAL MARRIAGE AND CONCUBINES.
SO IN THE MERRIDIAN OF TIME ALL WOULD BE REDEEMED THAT ACCEPTED THE GIFT AND TO KEEP THE LORD’S COMMANDMENTS.
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Isaac (later Israel) have several wives. David also had multiple wives. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob find exceptional favor with the Lord, yet they were polygamists.OK, I'm tired of this lying crap. Resty, it's time for you & all the other Mormon posters who have repeatedly posted the slanderous lie that Isaac was a polygamist repent! Every time I've challenged the basis of this lie, no one 'fesses up to it, because to do so, they'd realize they would need to also call Joseph Smith a liar.
Resty, admit it. There is NO Bible passage upon which you make this slanderous claim. (Even your chart in post #206 shows only Rebekah as his lone wife...imagine how Rebekah in heaven comments to Elohim every time she hears you or another Mormon make this claim based upon 1 Doctrine & Covenants passage--132:1...but if you don't believe D&C 132:4,21,27,32,37 is applicable anymore, then why does v. 1 hold water for you?
You know tootin' well that Smith was biblically illiterate (even Mormons themselves make a big deal about that as some sort of "proof" God used him). Well, his biblical illiteracy came out in flying colors in D&C 132:1.
Oh, and speaking of Isaac, note what he told his son, Jacob: Take a wife [not several wives] for yourself there... (Gen. 28:2) It was never Jacob's idea--nor God's directive--for him to sleep with more than one wife.
You quoted Hosea 1:2: And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
While it's quite obvious that God directed Hosea to take a whore as a wife--someone who continued to "ply her trade" post marriage...note the implications of this. It is you that says God directed polygamy...when at best folks can only seize upon one remote verse from 2 Sam. re: David.
So are you consistent? You say that God directed polygamy. Then I guess you and other Mormons must also conclude, on the basis of Hosea 1:2-3, that God directed marriage to unconverted prostitutes.
(Now tell us why Joseph Smith didn't put that "institution" in as part of Mormonism? Or did he and we just don't know about it 'cause he kept it "under covers" like he did his affairs for almost a decade until his first formal extra-marital "wedding" ceremony in 1841...for some reason, wife Emma wasn't invited, either!)
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob find exceptional favor with the Lord, yet they were polygamists.
As for Abraham, your chart shows Keturah and Sarai--but nothing in Genesis ever shows that they were simultaneously married to Abraham. (And your chart clearly distinguishes Hagar as a concubine...a servant/slave woman who served a one-night stand as a "surrogate.")
Besides, even you conceded that God favored David despite his lust, adultery & manslaughter. So if God could look past that in David, why would sleeping with concubines qualify as something God also couldn't look past?