MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, REMARRIAGE, CONCUBINES, POLYGYNY & JESUS;
Another Look for Christians.
COPYRIGHT JANUARY 14, 1995 All rights reserved. Portions of this file/document may be posted/published as long as the paragraph of the portion, the paragraph before the portion and the paragraph after the portion are included without any additional breaks or spaces, and the source and author are included with the protion posted/published. I apologize for the fact that
this document has not be diligently and well edited and proofread and seems to be repetitious.
Copyright 01/12/96; 11/10/05; 5/13/09; 07/07/09 (Revised)
By L. Tyler P.O. Box 620763, SanDiego, CA 92162-0763
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyPolygamyPolygnyNJesus
http://groups.google.com/group/Biblical ... myPolygyny
http://www.flickr.com/groups/christian_polygamy/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6382095167
http://biblicalmarriagepolygyny.yuku.com/directory
http://polygynouschristians.multiply.com/
http://groups.myspace.com/BiblicalChristianPoly
http://american-christian-polygynists.ning.com/
http://biblicalmarriagepolygyny.yuku.com/directory
TOPICS: MARRIAGES FOR LIFE CROSS CULTURALLY, FORMAL AND INFORMAL CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE, COMMON LAW MARRIAGE, CHRISTIAN DIVORCE, CHRISTIAN REMARRIAGE, CHRISTIAN CONCUBINES, CHRISTIAN POLYGYNY (POLYGAMY), RACISM, ETHNOCENTRICITY, AND THE SWEARING OF OATHS
This work is dedicated with love and honor to Carol Lynn McIntyre (of Oceanside's Camelot), Beverly Tyler (of Tennessee}, Diane Tava Lovelady (of Santee CA), Lua Nguyen (of Vietnam), Marilyn Tyler (of Canada), Paula D. (of San Diego, CA); Meli Bunnell (of Tepic, Nyarit Mex), and Carmen Guerrero (of Mazatlan, Mex).
This document can be found at the following Yahoo web siteS:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... amy/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poly_Poly ... sus/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... amy/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyPolyg ... sus/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... my2/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LynnAndLo ... ery/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyOptio ... TDs/files/
It is also dedicated to all those who have suffered through divorce and the complexities of
remarriage, and to all of the following:
1. The shattered African polygynist husbands and their families who are made to feel like
second class citizens in the local church because of their polygyny, made to feel less loved
by Christ and made to feel less a child of God by the local "Christians".
2. The broken hearted Chinese polygynist wives and their children in their local churches
who are shunned by the "proper Christian" women and made to feel less welcome and
spiritually inferior because of their polygynous families.
3. The devastated Burmese polygynist husbands who believe in and have received the
Lord Jesus Christ, but who are rejected and shunned by the local "Christian"
church/leader because they love their wives too much to divorce them.
4. The grieved, stumbled, offended and broken hearted born-again and Spirit sealed Indian
wives and children of the born-again and Spirit sealed husband who loved his wives and
children too much to renounce and repudiate them in order to be baptized and accepted
by the local"Christian' church, and so now live in Christ, denied fellowship by their local
congregation of "Christians".
5. The discouraged Mid-Eastern polygynist husbands who genuinely wanted to know
Christ and the fellowship of the saints but who were embittered and kept from saving
faith by the campaign of "Christian" leaders/churches against them and their polygyny. It
would be no surprise if they were the most active in the community in resisting the
Gospel and those who preach it. Talk about closing a door and making an enemy of the
Gospel!
6. The troubled Liberian polygynist wives and children who genuinely wanted to know
Christ and the fellowship of the saints but who were embittered and kept from saving
faith by the campaign of "Christian" leaders/women against them and their polygyny. It
would be no surprise if they were the most active in the community in resisting the
Gospel and those who preach it. Talk about closing a door and making an enemy of the
Gospel!
7. The broken hearted, stumbled, offended and grieved Kenyan polygynist wives and
their children whose husbands and fathers were forced to reject and renounce them in
order to be baptized and join the local "Christian" church.; especially in the case where a
carnal husband used the church rule as an excuse to get rid of a wife and children he didn't
want.
8. The disconsolate Pakistani polygynist husbands who are stumbled, grieved, offended
and broken in their faith and love for the Lord Jesus Christ because of how badly they
and their loved ones have been treated by the local "Christian" leader/church.
9. The grief stricken Bengali polygynist wives and children who are stumbled, grieved,
offended and broken in their faith and love for the Lord Jesus Christ because of how
badly they and their loved ones have been treated by the "Christian" women of the local church.
10. The miserable Thai polygynist husbands who, with grave doubts and troubled hearts,
succumbed to "Christian" pressure to renounce and reject (Malachi 2:13-17) all of their
wives except one to satisfy the demands of some misguided "Christian" leader, or
association of "Christians".
11. The miserable American Christian woman, a genuine believer in Christ, who divorced her
genuinely saved Christian husband for "irreconcilable differences" as her pastor recommended,
married a "more godly" man, and now has realized that the Bible says she is maritally bound to her genuinely saved exhusband in the Kingdom of God as long as they both live, making her present marriage adultery - - - and she doesn't know what to do.
12. The miserable American Christian man, a genuine believer in Christ, who was divorced by his genuinely saved Christian wife for "irreconcilable differences" as her pastor recommended, who has gone on and married a "godly" Christian woman, and now has realized that the Bible says he is maritally bound to his genuinely saved exwife in the Kingdom of God as long as they both live, and he doesn't know what to do about the situation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (PLEASE USE YOUR FIND TOOL TO FIND THE
CHAPTER BY THE CHAPTER ROMAN NUMERAL)
I. INTRODUCTION: PRIORITIES RECONSIDERED.
II. DIVORCE DEFINED, A Surprise
III. DIVORCE! A PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
IV-A. MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY FROM GENESIS TO JUDGES
IV-B MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY FROM JUDGES TO JESUS
V-A. MARRIAGE, POLYGYNY, JESUS AND THE APOSTLES
V-B. MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH
V-C. MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY FROM 100 AD TO THE 20TH CENTURY
V-D. WHAT THEN DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACH US ABOUT
POLYGYNY FOR BELIEVERS TODAY?
VI. ADULTERY DEFINED: A SURPRISE! ISNT POLYGYNY ADULTERY?
VII. SO, WHAT ABOUT CONCUBINES & POLYGYNY TODAY IN MY
COUNTRY?
VIII. ARE POLYGYNISTS AND CONCUBINES LIVING IN ERROR TODAY?
IX. MARRIAGE, CONCUBINES, CIVIL LAW, PERSONAL LIBERTY AND A
LOVING CONSCIENCE!
X. DOES GOD FORGIVE BROKEN VOWS, DIVORCE AND ADULTERY?
XI. CAN YOU COME BACK TOGETHER & REMMARY AFTER ADULTEROUS
REMARRIAGE?
XII. WHAT ABOUT THE HEALTH QUESTIONS INVOLVED IN SUCH
REUNIONS?
XIII. CAN ADULTERY, DIVORCE, VOWS AND REPENTANCE RESULT IN
POLYGYNY/CONCUBINAGE?
XIV. ADULTERY, DIVORCE, CONCUBINES, POLYGYNY AND THE UNSAVED.
XV. THE MARRIED MAN WHO WOULD ADD WIVES/CONCUBINES TO HIS
"HAREM".
XVI. ARE POLYGYNY & CONCUBINES OPTIONS FOR THE ABANDONED
MAN?
XVII. POLYGYNISTS, CONCUBINES AND THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
XVIII. POLYGYNY & CONCUBINES AND THE WESTERN CHRISTIAN WOMAN.
XIX. WHAT'S WRONG WITH POLYANDRY?
XX. HUSBAND RULE OVER THE WIFE? IF SERVANT-TEACHERS RULE .
XXI. THREE CHEERS FOR MONOGAMY! THE BEST FOR MOST!
XXII. LISTEN TO THE WORD!
XXIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX ONE: WHAT MAKES A WEDDING &/OR A MARRIAGE?
APPENDIX TWO: WHEN DOES GOD COMMAND ONE TO MARRY?
APPENDIX THREE: THE PRACTICE OF POLYGYNY IN AN HOSTILE
ENVIRONMENT
APPENDIX FOUR: WEDDING VOWS, PROMISES & OATHS AND POLYGYNISTS WHO WISH TO OBEY JESUS IN MATT 5 AND JAMES 5
APPENDIX FIVE: WHY IT IS A GRAVE ERROR FOR A GENUINE BELIEVER
TO MARRY AND UNBELIEVER OR A "BELIEVER" SNARED IN SIN.
APPENDIX SIX: WHY BIBLICAL POLYGYNISTS SUFFER IN THIS WORLD
APPENDIX SEVEN: RACISM & INTERRACIAL POLYGYNOUS MARRIAGE
APPENDIX EIGHT: Bisexuality and Biblical/Christian Polygyny
This file/document is available in it's entirety at the following in the Files/Documents section of the following:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poly_Poly ... sus/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... gamyfiles/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyPolyg ... sus/files/
http://groups.google.com/group/Biblical ... myPolygyny
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... my2/files/
http://american-christian-polygynists.ning.com/
http://biblicalmarriagepolygyny.yuku.com/directory
Another Look for Christians.
COPYRIGHT JANUARY 14, 1995 All rights reserved. Portions of this file/document may be posted/published as long as the paragraph of the portion, the paragraph before the portion and the paragraph after the portion are included without any additional breaks or spaces, and the source and author are included with the protion posted/published. I apologize for the fact that
this document has not be diligently and well edited and proofread and seems to be repetitious.
Copyright 01/12/96; 11/10/05; 5/13/09; 07/07/09 (Revised)
By L. Tyler P.O. Box 620763, SanDiego, CA 92162-0763
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyPolygamyPolygnyNJesus
http://groups.google.com/group/Biblical ... myPolygyny
http://www.flickr.com/groups/christian_polygamy/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6382095167
http://biblicalmarriagepolygyny.yuku.com/directory
http://polygynouschristians.multiply.com/
http://groups.myspace.com/BiblicalChristianPoly
http://american-christian-polygynists.ning.com/
http://biblicalmarriagepolygyny.yuku.com/directory
TOPICS: MARRIAGES FOR LIFE CROSS CULTURALLY, FORMAL AND INFORMAL CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE, COMMON LAW MARRIAGE, CHRISTIAN DIVORCE, CHRISTIAN REMARRIAGE, CHRISTIAN CONCUBINES, CHRISTIAN POLYGYNY (POLYGAMY), RACISM, ETHNOCENTRICITY, AND THE SWEARING OF OATHS
This work is dedicated with love and honor to Carol Lynn McIntyre (of Oceanside's Camelot), Beverly Tyler (of Tennessee}, Diane Tava Lovelady (of Santee CA), Lua Nguyen (of Vietnam), Marilyn Tyler (of Canada), Paula D. (of San Diego, CA); Meli Bunnell (of Tepic, Nyarit Mex), and Carmen Guerrero (of Mazatlan, Mex).
This document can be found at the following Yahoo web siteS:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... amy/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poly_Poly ... sus/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... amy/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyPolyg ... sus/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... my2/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LynnAndLo ... ery/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyOptio ... TDs/files/
It is also dedicated to all those who have suffered through divorce and the complexities of
remarriage, and to all of the following:
1. The shattered African polygynist husbands and their families who are made to feel like
second class citizens in the local church because of their polygyny, made to feel less loved
by Christ and made to feel less a child of God by the local "Christians".
2. The broken hearted Chinese polygynist wives and their children in their local churches
who are shunned by the "proper Christian" women and made to feel less welcome and
spiritually inferior because of their polygynous families.
3. The devastated Burmese polygynist husbands who believe in and have received the
Lord Jesus Christ, but who are rejected and shunned by the local "Christian"
church/leader because they love their wives too much to divorce them.
4. The grieved, stumbled, offended and broken hearted born-again and Spirit sealed Indian
wives and children of the born-again and Spirit sealed husband who loved his wives and
children too much to renounce and repudiate them in order to be baptized and accepted
by the local"Christian' church, and so now live in Christ, denied fellowship by their local
congregation of "Christians".
5. The discouraged Mid-Eastern polygynist husbands who genuinely wanted to know
Christ and the fellowship of the saints but who were embittered and kept from saving
faith by the campaign of "Christian" leaders/churches against them and their polygyny. It
would be no surprise if they were the most active in the community in resisting the
Gospel and those who preach it. Talk about closing a door and making an enemy of the
Gospel!
6. The troubled Liberian polygynist wives and children who genuinely wanted to know
Christ and the fellowship of the saints but who were embittered and kept from saving
faith by the campaign of "Christian" leaders/women against them and their polygyny. It
would be no surprise if they were the most active in the community in resisting the
Gospel and those who preach it. Talk about closing a door and making an enemy of the
Gospel!
7. The broken hearted, stumbled, offended and grieved Kenyan polygynist wives and
their children whose husbands and fathers were forced to reject and renounce them in
order to be baptized and join the local "Christian" church.; especially in the case where a
carnal husband used the church rule as an excuse to get rid of a wife and children he didn't
want.
8. The disconsolate Pakistani polygynist husbands who are stumbled, grieved, offended
and broken in their faith and love for the Lord Jesus Christ because of how badly they
and their loved ones have been treated by the local "Christian" leader/church.
9. The grief stricken Bengali polygynist wives and children who are stumbled, grieved,
offended and broken in their faith and love for the Lord Jesus Christ because of how
badly they and their loved ones have been treated by the "Christian" women of the local church.
10. The miserable Thai polygynist husbands who, with grave doubts and troubled hearts,
succumbed to "Christian" pressure to renounce and reject (Malachi 2:13-17) all of their
wives except one to satisfy the demands of some misguided "Christian" leader, or
association of "Christians".
11. The miserable American Christian woman, a genuine believer in Christ, who divorced her
genuinely saved Christian husband for "irreconcilable differences" as her pastor recommended,
married a "more godly" man, and now has realized that the Bible says she is maritally bound to her genuinely saved exhusband in the Kingdom of God as long as they both live, making her present marriage adultery - - - and she doesn't know what to do.
12. The miserable American Christian man, a genuine believer in Christ, who was divorced by his genuinely saved Christian wife for "irreconcilable differences" as her pastor recommended, who has gone on and married a "godly" Christian woman, and now has realized that the Bible says he is maritally bound to his genuinely saved exwife in the Kingdom of God as long as they both live, and he doesn't know what to do about the situation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (PLEASE USE YOUR FIND TOOL TO FIND THE
CHAPTER BY THE CHAPTER ROMAN NUMERAL)
I. INTRODUCTION: PRIORITIES RECONSIDERED.
II. DIVORCE DEFINED, A Surprise
III. DIVORCE! A PLAGUE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
IV-A. MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY FROM GENESIS TO JUDGES
IV-B MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY FROM JUDGES TO JESUS
V-A. MARRIAGE, POLYGYNY, JESUS AND THE APOSTLES
V-B. MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH
V-C. MARRIAGE AND POLYGYNY FROM 100 AD TO THE 20TH CENTURY
V-D. WHAT THEN DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACH US ABOUT
POLYGYNY FOR BELIEVERS TODAY?
VI. ADULTERY DEFINED: A SURPRISE! ISNT POLYGYNY ADULTERY?
VII. SO, WHAT ABOUT CONCUBINES & POLYGYNY TODAY IN MY
COUNTRY?
VIII. ARE POLYGYNISTS AND CONCUBINES LIVING IN ERROR TODAY?
IX. MARRIAGE, CONCUBINES, CIVIL LAW, PERSONAL LIBERTY AND A
LOVING CONSCIENCE!
X. DOES GOD FORGIVE BROKEN VOWS, DIVORCE AND ADULTERY?
XI. CAN YOU COME BACK TOGETHER & REMMARY AFTER ADULTEROUS
REMARRIAGE?
XII. WHAT ABOUT THE HEALTH QUESTIONS INVOLVED IN SUCH
REUNIONS?
XIII. CAN ADULTERY, DIVORCE, VOWS AND REPENTANCE RESULT IN
POLYGYNY/CONCUBINAGE?
XIV. ADULTERY, DIVORCE, CONCUBINES, POLYGYNY AND THE UNSAVED.
XV. THE MARRIED MAN WHO WOULD ADD WIVES/CONCUBINES TO HIS
"HAREM".
XVI. ARE POLYGYNY & CONCUBINES OPTIONS FOR THE ABANDONED
MAN?
XVII. POLYGYNISTS, CONCUBINES AND THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
XVIII. POLYGYNY & CONCUBINES AND THE WESTERN CHRISTIAN WOMAN.
XIX. WHAT'S WRONG WITH POLYANDRY?
XX. HUSBAND RULE OVER THE WIFE? IF SERVANT-TEACHERS RULE .
XXI. THREE CHEERS FOR MONOGAMY! THE BEST FOR MOST!
XXII. LISTEN TO THE WORD!
XXIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX ONE: WHAT MAKES A WEDDING &/OR A MARRIAGE?
APPENDIX TWO: WHEN DOES GOD COMMAND ONE TO MARRY?
APPENDIX THREE: THE PRACTICE OF POLYGYNY IN AN HOSTILE
ENVIRONMENT
APPENDIX FOUR: WEDDING VOWS, PROMISES & OATHS AND POLYGYNISTS WHO WISH TO OBEY JESUS IN MATT 5 AND JAMES 5
APPENDIX FIVE: WHY IT IS A GRAVE ERROR FOR A GENUINE BELIEVER
TO MARRY AND UNBELIEVER OR A "BELIEVER" SNARED IN SIN.
APPENDIX SIX: WHY BIBLICAL POLYGYNISTS SUFFER IN THIS WORLD
APPENDIX SEVEN: RACISM & INTERRACIAL POLYGYNOUS MARRIAGE
APPENDIX EIGHT: Bisexuality and Biblical/Christian Polygyny
This file/document is available in it's entirety at the following in the Files/Documents section of the following:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poly_Poly ... sus/files/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... gamyfiles/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolyPolyg ... sus/files/
http://groups.google.com/group/Biblical ... myPolygyny
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrthodoxB ... my2/files/
http://american-christian-polygynists.ning.com/
http://biblicalmarriagepolygyny.yuku.com/directory
