Memphis Dwight
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My friend Jeff posted this over at Grace Centered, it is a board full of apostates still claiming to be christians. On one hand they will condone all types of wickedness but on the other will persecute men that teach polygyny.
Whatever it is that fornication consists of, we can be sure that having more than one wife does not equal fornication because:
God nevers portrays Himself as an adulterer, as a drunk, as an idolater, etc. He would never portray Himself as a fornicator and that is one of many ways that we can know that having lots of wives is not fornication. Because God portrays Himself as having more than one wife, it is not fornication.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.--God
Jeremiah 31:32 "I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:"
Saying that having multiples wives is fornication is tantamount to calling God a fornicator. I will not CALL GOD A FORNICATOR!
That is all.
Whatever it is that fornication consists of, we can be sure that having more than one wife does not equal fornication because:
- God portrays Himself as a polygamist - Ezekiel 23:4
- God says He gave David multiples wives, 2 Sam 12:8
- Reuben was said to have defiled his father's bed by sleeping with one of his father's concubines, that means concubinage is not fornication -- it is the marriage bed. -- Gen 35:22, 1 Chronicles 5:1
- There is a partition drawn in Hebrews 13:4, marriage bed is honorable, -- but adulterers and fornicators God will judge.
God nevers portrays Himself as an adulterer, as a drunk, as an idolater, etc. He would never portray Himself as a fornicator and that is one of many ways that we can know that having lots of wives is not fornication. Because God portrays Himself as having more than one wife, it is not fornication.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.--God
Jeremiah 31:32 "I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:"
Saying that having multiples wives is fornication is tantamount to calling God a fornicator. I will not CALL GOD A FORNICATOR!
That is all.