Polygamy

[Dr T]

Hi Fiannan,

A couple of thoughts: I am familiar with the OT taking of the brothers wife when they had no children. Do you have a reference for "even if they were married"? I've never read that. When they asked Jesus about that law, (when the brothers died) he told them they were in error.

Polygamy has always been a thorn in Romanized/Hellenized Christianity in that to say polygamy is a sin means important prophets of the Old Testament were guilty of adultery. To say it isn't a sin would undercut Romanized/Hellenized Christianity's foundations and make Chritianity more akin to its Jewish roots.

Any new testament accounts of polygamy? I can't think of any, but I could be wrong.

[Snow]

Snow, I am not making this up and your charge is baseless. For example, I have found that Matthew 22:30 says, “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.”

Jesus seems to be strikingly clear here that when a man dies he is not required to live in any matrimonial affair because man will be like the angels who are not given in marriage.

Now, if you try to use Isaiah 55:9 as support for plural marriage then that would contradict Matt 22:30.

Do you care to discuss the support I have provided for this blatant contradiction?

First, the OP never said that Isaiah 55:9. You had to go a great deal out of your way to miscontrue his point.

Second, even if someone did misapply the passage to polygamy (something that so far only you have done) that would in no way contradict the rest of the Bible. Genesis 1:1, Lev 3:7, Mark 9:16, Rev 18:19, etc etc etc all stay exactly the same.

It can be demonstrated by reading the life of David. Go ahead, read through each time David took a wife and you’ll see that chastisement and discipline came as a result of polygamy.

Again, read through the account of Abraham’s polygamy and the problems he had because he took a second wife. He had absolutely no blessings whatsoever because of his adulteress affair with Hagar and in fact, was stricken to the heart with grief for his unauthorized sexual union with her.

Snow, do you care to have a discourse with me or are you just going to point your finger and yell, “prove it” all day?

Thanks,

blazius

You made the assertion. Back it up. There is zero proof for your bogus assertion. If there was, you would post instead of protesting it.