Why Did God Allow Polygamy in the Old Testament?

[@MagdalenaIsaiah431]

TY Jeff for all you teach us! In addition GOD only made *one* wife for Adam. The lady Eve who was created out of his side while he slept! JESUS also responds to a question in the NT saying even though Moses permitted divorce it was only because the people if GOD were hard-hearted and He stated that GOD had not intended it to be that way at the beginning! ✝️✝️✝️🙏💙🙏

[@mace7754]

Adam had a wife before Eve lol her name was Lilith..

[@Meaincubus]

Not in bible ​@@mace7754

[@Jericho-xs3ju]

Magdalena…. Adam and Eve were also naked. Does God intend us to walk around naked. As far as we know they had no houses cars air planes cell phones t v s or they were not already made with children. Does that mean that’s the way God intended Look at the context. Jesus was asked about sending away. The mere act of kicking your woman out because she displeased you for any reason. It was not divorce they were asking. Jesus quotes the Old Testament which many so called Christians say is obsolete. The law of moses. Which is Gods law permitted or commanded that a man give a certificate of divorce due to the hardness of heart. Men were simply sending thier women away without a divorce subjecting them to adultery if they went to seek cover of another man which was punishable by death. That was cruel. To kick your woman out for any reason and not to divorce her. Jesus stated that the intent was to be together for life. Not to send women away for any reason. But gave the caviat that a women could be sent away for sexual immorality Look it up for yourself. The original text uses send away. Not divorce. They are two different things. Polyginy is never once called sin my God. Never even spoke down on or condemned In fact. God orchestra trd the 12 tribes of Israel the Jacob and his 4 wives. Told David he would have given him more if he would have asked and it states. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the lord all the days of jahoida (sp) the priest who gave him two wives.

[@karenbohlert2890]

Thanks Jeff! I love the BIAY and these educational short videos.

[@Praise_and_Worship_NA]

Thanks Jeff! I love the BIAY

[@GinaBecker]

Thank you Jeff!!

[@dianefrank3688]

Thanks Jeff.

[@charbe3828]

We all have FREE WILL. Just because we do something, doesn't mean God allowed it so it's okay.

[@Meaincubus]

People don't un this sadly

[@JoeTchify]

Yeah. But that contradicts Jesus fulfilling and abolishing the law of the OT, but actually makes it more strict, because it appears God was more liberal in the case of polygamy, wouldn’t that mean Christians today should be even more liberal on this case when it comes to polygamous marriage? How does the NT suddenly change the ramifications of the old covenant by making marriage more hyper covenantual?

[@junfour]

2 Chronicles 24:2-3

[@Pi2013spi]

Also the bible instructs on how to handle when you have multiple wives how to handle the first born son. Deuteronomy 21:15-17 Then it suggests that church leaders only have one wife. It does not command but suggests only church leader have one wife . Timothy 3.2 The one flesh just means that when you marry you become as one and and must care for the other as themselves but does not preclude a man marrying again and treating her the same. But the other bible entries specifically state men can have multiple wives and if they do this is what is expected. If god did not approve of multiple wives and it were a sin then there would be zero need for these instructions as it would be wrong. Since it is okay the bible spells out how to have multiple wives.

[@Reginaldj.Marques]

I think i will leave this one to the experts. Woop woop

[@jozitro4554]

Unless your king Solomon don't even think about multiple wives. It's not about the sex its about what you provide and what has been ordained to you. Most men can't even handle one.. Much less two or more 🤦

[@TheBrencejack]

U dont think you can justify? Where is the scripture saying that you cannot have multiple wives?

[@AnthonyIsToeKnee]

That's Christians explanation of one man and one women. Gods chosen people do not believe in Jesus. What is their explanation of one man and one women? 🤔

[@jpduster1]

God's chosen people?

[@AnthonyIsToeKnee]

@@jpduster1 Old testament Jews

[@JoolsWoodward]

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[@theophilos0910]

Clearly according to Torah Avram had a wife (‘Sarai’) and concubines, Esau had multiple wives (Gen 28:6-8 &c) Yakkov-Yisroel (‘Jacob’ see Gen. 28:15-28) had at least three wives and of course the kings of Yisroel had multiple foreign wives who brought their gods/shrines/priests with them such as David and his half-Jebusite son Jedediah (‘Shlomo’) who was said to have had one wife for ev’ryone of the 70 gentile nations & even built a temple to the Moabite clan-god Chemosh not only to honour his great grandmother Ruth’s extended family at court but also for his Moabite wife - etc etc so the list of ‘Jewish heroes’ practicing polygamy in the Hebrew Bible goes on and on without one syllable of reproach against polygamy except one teenie-tiny verse in Deuteronomy 17:17 ‘The king shall not retain many political-wives lest they lead him into worshipping their gods’ which may have been a restriction added later to the abuses of the early Daviddic kings who form’d political alliances with nations such as Egypt or Phoenecia in this way… Yet YHWH never was suppos’d to have ever outlawed polygamy - or slavery or wife-beating for that matter - the Torah merely puts some limits on these ‘institutions’

[@WorkSmart-w4x]

I’m not a fan of polygamy I’m a fan of the truth. I believe God never rebuked David and Solomon about it, because he did not have a problem with it. In fact David repented and seek forgiveness from God after he committed adultery, neither David nor Solomon sought forgiveness for having many wives. Another example that proves that God is not against polygamy is Mat 25V1-13. There, Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to marriage. It states that the kingdom of heaven is like a bridegroom marrying ten virgins. Now if the kingdom of heaven is something that is holy and pure I don’t think that Jesus would compared it to a style of marriage that is ungodly and dirty and state that they are similar. Keep in mind that the ruler of this world is satan and a lot of the world’s agenda contradicts the word of God. God tells us to be fruitful and multiply, but the world is in the business of reducing the population.

[@tiffanytombs9408]

Yehovah made one man and one woman.