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Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by doyinbaby(f): 2:51pm On Aug 31, 2017
Did the bible say specifically say Christian men should not marry more than one wife
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by doyinbaby(f): 2:55pm On Aug 31, 2017
Will
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by brightnelly(f): 3:14pm On Aug 31, 2017
These questions strong oo but I think your pastor will be in the best position to answer that.
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by ScepticalPyrrho: 4:12pm On Aug 31, 2017
doyinbaby:
Did the bible say specifically say Christian men should not marry more than one wife
The Bible cannot speak.

But Jesus according to the Bible stories implied that a man shouldn't take more than one wife. He didn't take a wife in his short life time. But the culture of his people allowed polygamy. Majority of his kinsmen also rejected his claims of being a god-child.

I don't know why those who claim they emulate the Bible's Jesus character are keeping wife or wives for themselves and still expect to be called "Jesus-like"(christians).

Even "Paul" did not have a wife. Rather, he advised against having any.

So, doyinbaby, the right question should be whether a Christian should have a wife or husband at all.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by DeSepiero(m): 4:16pm On Aug 31, 2017
ScepticalPyrrho:
The Bible cannot speak.

However, Jesus of the Bible implied it indirectly. He didn't take a wife in his short life time. But his people were polygamous. And most of his people rejected his claims of being a god-child, going by the Bible stories.

I don't know why those who claim they emulate the Bible's Jesus character are keeping wife or wives for themselves and still expect to be called Jesus-like.

Even "Paul" did not have a wife. I wonder if this "Christians" of today are serious about being Christian.

So, doyinbaby, the right question should be whether a Christian should have a wife or husband.

You didn't help her specific query. smiley
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by ScepticalPyrrho: 4:17pm On Aug 31, 2017
DeSepiero:


You didn't help her specific query. smiley
I am trying to help her even better.
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by DeSepiero(m): 4:22pm On Aug 31, 2017
doyinbaby:
Did the bible say specifically say Christian men should not marry more than one wife

It's high time we started to quote bible verses properly, thereby giving credit to original authors.

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"The Bible said that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..." [/s] wrong

"John said that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..." correct

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Nobody: 4:39pm On Aug 31, 2017
double post
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Nobody: 4:39pm On Aug 31, 2017
anybody can marry more than one wife.

anything can be justified using the bible

from slavery, rape, honesty, genocide , love, misogyny, incest, charity any thing


my take on the matter.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by godfromGod: 4:58pm On Aug 31, 2017
Abraham got 3 wives
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Nobody: 8:14pm On Sep 15, 2017
Yes, provided he can take care of them and love them.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Olabenjamen22(m): 9:54pm On Sep 15, 2017
doyinbaby:
Did the bible say specifically say Christian men should not marry more than one wife
Matthew 19:4-6 New International Version (NIV)
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ [ a ] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ [ b ] ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Jesus Christ said a man shall leave his parent and be united with his wife not wives, and two of them (3,4... Of them) shall become one. Infact want is the essence of marry two wives when you have claim to the first wife that she's your eve. Well From my own point of view, polygamy is nothing but a product of lust and lack of control sexual life in which Christianity is against. Peace

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Olabenjamen22(m): 9:56pm On Sep 15, 2017
godfromGod:
Abraham got 3 wives
Really? Are you a Christian?

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Nobody: 4:44am On Sep 16, 2017
Oh yes
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by godfromGod: 6:57am On Sep 16, 2017
Olabenjamen22:
Really? Are you a Christian?
No.
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by godfromGod: 7:09am On Sep 16, 2017
Olabenjamen22:

Really? Are you a Christian?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham's_family_tree
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by orunto27: 10:36am On Sep 16, 2017
Yes, if you won't waste them. On wastage, Guilt is established.
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by GideonOmach(m): 10:05pm On Dec 07, 2017
Yes! it doesn't permit polygamy.
How many wives did God give to Adam? only Eve.
We must understand also that Adam was the man God made after his image. should God be man, the way He made Adam is the way He will be. The instruction manual according after which He made Adam was what He will have been made after.
We must also note that Adam was the result of the summoning in Genesis that calls to make man in our own image... If Adam became "deformed" or failed in realizing the expectation of the purpose, it didn't change God's purpose for making him which is why He'd strive to reconcile man to himself and to recover that image onwards after the disobedience or fall of man... So, if Adam was the image of God, then God made him according to the templates of his own originality and standard.... He gave that man He created one wife,. recall before that that there was a statement "God saw that it was not good for the man whom he had made to be alone"... this means that Eve was the sufficient answer to that reality of man's loneness, not two Eves, only one and that meant that the lapse which was incurred by man being alone as a result of not meeting the expectation or what God looked to see was satisfied with only one wife(Eve) being given to him because when He looked after that, Adam testified to the new development that showed that man was complete in that respect and God himself attested to it by affirming a statement after Adam's testimony which is at the end of that chapter.."For this purpose a MAN shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his WIFE.. ". That declaration by God established that every man who must be found complete and occupying the purpose of God in marriage must marry just one wife. His Wife there is to state that the woman to be married to who will answer WIFE is one person, not two or more, and that was as a result of the satisfaction which was met sufficiently in Eve alone regarding companionship.
This means that every purported Christian supposed to be God's image will not be within the purpose of God to marry more than one wife.
This was why Jesus stated in Matt. 19 when once asked that in the beginning(by what was ordained, by purpose) it was not so and that few conditions gave pass or allowance to the situation that was found different from what was in the beginning... God doesn't change. The purpose that was looked to be achieved in the beginning has not changed.. Jesus Christ was our redemption to the purpose that was in the beginning and even much more.




Meanwhile, Abraham didn't marry three wives. He married one : Sarah. The latter two : Hagar and Keturah were not married, they were concubines. meanwhile, Keturah became a concubine after Sarah's death. The affair with Hagar was a result of the impatience in every man today... Of that he broke relationship with upon counsel by His wife also who instigated the move at first.



Jesus Christ didn't come to marry. He was a man on a mission. The circumstance of his mission or life's purpose does not permit him to marry. He'd be a thwarting of purpose to have married.
Paul likewise, it wasn't fitted with the kind of ministry he did and how sold out he was to God or has devoted himself. .
He recommended not to marry, not condemned marriage. in that scripture, he clearly states that He speaks by permission not by commandment. permission talks about the revelation he received that by liberty one could choose to abstain like himself did and not be condemned or judged wrong.. By commandment speaks about what God ordained with man from the beginning(for this purpose shall a man..... ).
either ways, by permission or commandment, one is not found to be outside of God's purpose. The reply of Jesus bears witness to this in Matt. 19.

But marriage is to be between a specific individual and another of the opposite sex and only joined to that individual by covenant, without any other sexual relations while the espoused still lives. it is called adultery and fornication if it ensues, not marriage according to the institution of God!

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Lirqur: 11:19pm On Dec 07, 2017
Wait until the last days to see what how Christians will pack wives for them selves. grin grin grin

Only a Judaist smiley and Muslim can marry more than one wife, if you call yourself a christian you cannot marry more than one wife grin.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by yazach: 2:06pm On Jul 26, 2018
Olabenjamen22:

Matthew 19:4-6 New International Version (NIV)
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ [ a ] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ [ b ] ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Jesus Christ said a man shall leave his parent and be united with his wife not wives, and two of them (3,4... Of them) shall become one. Infact want is the essence of marry two wives when you have claim to the first wife that she's your eve. Well From my own point of view, polygamy is nothing but a product of lust and lack of control sexual life in which Christianity is against. Peace


Please when a man unite with his two wives, three of them become what

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by yazach: 2:11pm On Jul 26, 2018
Olabenjamen22:

Matthew 19:4-6 New International Version (NIV)
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ [ a ] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ [ b ] ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Jesus Christ said a man shall leave his parent and be united with his wife not wives, and two of them (3,4... Of them) shall become one. Infact want is the essence of marry two wives when you have claim to the first wife that she's your eve. Well From my own point of view, polygamy is nothing but a product of lust and lack of control sexual life in which Christianity is against. Peace

Please when a husband unite with his two wives, all of them become what
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by yazach: 2:15pm On Jul 26, 2018
Olabenjamen22:

Matthew 19:4-6 New International Version (NIV)
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ [ a ] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ [ b ] ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Jesus Christ said a man shall leave his parent and be united with his wife not wives, and two of them (3,4... Of them) shall become one. Infact want is the essence of marry two wives when you have claim to the first wife that she's your eve. Well From my own point of view, polygamy is nothing but a product of lust and lack of control sexual life in which Christianity is against. Peace


Please when a husband unite with his two wives, all of them become what
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Olabenjamen22(m): 2:17pm On Jul 26, 2018
yazach:


Please when a husband unite with his two wives, all of them become what

Who is this one?

So if you dont go to school that doesn't mean you should be display your foolishness up and down,


where in the verse i quoted made mention of wives, i guess you think you are reading your quran here.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Olabenjamen22(m): 2:21pm On Jul 26, 2018
yazach:



Please when a husband unite with his two wives, all of them become what

You just quote me three time just to write this your trash.

I dont know when a Muslim start developing headache for Christian matter. Smh

well the verse stated clearly wife not wives, so park for one side, if they like make 10 become one, the verse still stand as Wife(ONE)

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by yazach: 2:44pm On Jul 26, 2018
Olabenjamen22:


You just quote me three time just to write this your trash.

I dont know when a Muslim start developing headache for Christian matter. Smh

well the verse stated clearly wife not wives, so park for one side, if they like make 10 become one, the verse still stand as Wife(ONE)

So you as a Christian, you don't understand the Bible.

The verse is not in anyway restricting number of wives. Let the fact sink to your head ok!!!

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Olabenjamen22(m): 2:55pm On Jul 26, 2018
yazach:


So you as a Christian, you don't understand the Bible.

The verse is not in anyway restricting number of wives. Let the fact sink to your head ok!!!

Lolz, so funny when a mumuslim now telling me what my own bible said an what it mean.

Trash.

I guess the verse is telling you that wife is the same as wives, this is what happened when you think like a retard.

Mtcheew.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Nobody: 5:00pm On Jul 26, 2018
doyinbaby:
Did the bible say specifically say Christian men should not marry more than one wife





Just read the story of our wisest man, Nna anyi Solomon. Thank me later.

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by yazach: 7:40pm On Jul 26, 2018
Olabenjamen22:


Lolz, so funny when a mumuslim now telling me what my own bible said an what it mean.

Trash.

I guess the verse is telling you that wife is the same as wives, this is what happened when you think like a retard.

Mtcheew.

Olodo
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Olabenjamen22(m): 8:01pm On Jul 26, 2018
yazach:


Olodo

You are reffering to your illiterate dead prophet right?

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Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Lukuluku69(m): 8:56pm On Jul 26, 2018
Abraham: Friend of God had 3 Wives.
David: A man after God's heart had many wives.
Solomon: He built God a Temple, he had over a hundred And 600 concubines.
Jacob: The progenitor of the Jews\Israel had 2 wives and 2 side Chics.
Jesus: He did not marry.
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by Lukuluku69(m): 8:57pm On Jul 26, 2018
Olabenjamen22:


You are reffering to your illiterate dead prophet right?


12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matthew
Re: Can A Christian Man Marry More Than One Wife by yazach: 6:24am On Jul 27, 2018
Olabenjamen22:

[s]
You are reffering to your illiterate dead prophet right?[/s]

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