In one of the teaching articles I set forth three key errors, or enemies, that can derail the polygyny movement. A friend called me the other day and shared with me about a conversation he had over the subject of male prostitution. From that I think a fourth error or enemy can be seen as a real threat to the Christian or Evangelical Polygyny movement. A fourth enemy that must be considered too is prostitution disguised as polygyny.
When people hear the term prostitution they often think of someone buying the sexual services of another. However the term prostitution in English is the translation of the term from Hebrew and Greek which in its most simple meaning is "sexual immorality."
The Hebrew term is: zanuwn (זְנוּנִים)
The Greek term is: πόρνη pornē
What is one way a man acts like a prostitute while disguising it as a Christian lifestyle? Through the practice of polygyny. When a man takes a woman to himself and puts her away and then takes another woman to himself and put her away and so on and so forth he is living like a prostitute. Prostitution does not have to have money exchanged for it to be real. The making and breaking of a union is a form prostitution.
The definition of a prostitute is one who takes another to oneself for temporal gain. Some men are gravitating to the belief of polygyny in order to take a woman to themselves in order to merely gain pleasure, a feather in their ego cap, or even for combination of temporal personal benefits. But then when things do not go their way they put the woman away and then begin their search all over again. This is a lifestyle that reveals unbelief; those who live this way have a heart that is cold and unregenerate. It reveals the heart of a man who does not understand the heart of the Lord or the real intent of what a union really is.
Paul tells us these type of people will not enter the Kingdom of heaven (see 1 Cor. 6:9-10). Also in that chapter we see that Paul gives us insight into what prostitution is. In that text he is discussing a man joining himself to a prostitute, which is a woman who joins the man and then breaks that union as she joins herself to another man.
But men can do this too. And it can be done through the guise or veil of polygyny. A prostitute that is masquerading his unfaithful heart will sometimes be drawn towards the idea of polygyny as in that lifestyle he can lure a woman in, have sexual relations as long as he so desires and as long as he feels it is to his own gain. But then when he feels like it is no longer beneficial to him he will break the union and put that woman away to then start his journey all over again through seeking another woman to join himself unto.
But according to the Bible there is ONLY one reason a man can put a woman away. If she breaks the union through joining another man ONLY then does he have the right to put her away. In actuality he has not really put her away because she has done that through her desertion of the man through her joining another man. He may let her leave if she is an unbeliever and will not follow him, which reveals that she is in sin and unbelief with no hope of heaven, but the man, short of the woman being sexually immoral, has no biblical ground to put her away.
The heart that seeks to live this though through putting a woman away because it is no longer convenient reveal that they walk in corruption. That way is corrupt and ungodly. Those men who live this way have no hope of heaven unless they repent and embrace Christ as Lord of their life (see 1 John 3). Prostitution by either gender does not have to be for money for it to qualify as prostitution. The gain can be for money but it can also be for just personal temporal benefits. And when a man takes any woman to himself so long as it is only convenient but then puts her away when it is not to only in turn go out to seek another, that man shows his true colors, he is a male prostitute.
When people hear the term prostitution they often think of someone buying the sexual services of another. However the term prostitution in English is the translation of the term from Hebrew and Greek which in its most simple meaning is "sexual immorality."
The Hebrew term is: zanuwn (זְנוּנִים)
The Greek term is: πόρνη pornē
What is one way a man acts like a prostitute while disguising it as a Christian lifestyle? Through the practice of polygyny. When a man takes a woman to himself and puts her away and then takes another woman to himself and put her away and so on and so forth he is living like a prostitute. Prostitution does not have to have money exchanged for it to be real. The making and breaking of a union is a form prostitution.
The definition of a prostitute is one who takes another to oneself for temporal gain. Some men are gravitating to the belief of polygyny in order to take a woman to themselves in order to merely gain pleasure, a feather in their ego cap, or even for combination of temporal personal benefits. But then when things do not go their way they put the woman away and then begin their search all over again. This is a lifestyle that reveals unbelief; those who live this way have a heart that is cold and unregenerate. It reveals the heart of a man who does not understand the heart of the Lord or the real intent of what a union really is.
Paul tells us these type of people will not enter the Kingdom of heaven (see 1 Cor. 6:9-10). Also in that chapter we see that Paul gives us insight into what prostitution is. In that text he is discussing a man joining himself to a prostitute, which is a woman who joins the man and then breaks that union as she joins herself to another man.
But men can do this too. And it can be done through the guise or veil of polygyny. A prostitute that is masquerading his unfaithful heart will sometimes be drawn towards the idea of polygyny as in that lifestyle he can lure a woman in, have sexual relations as long as he so desires and as long as he feels it is to his own gain. But then when he feels like it is no longer beneficial to him he will break the union and put that woman away to then start his journey all over again through seeking another woman to join himself unto.
But according to the Bible there is ONLY one reason a man can put a woman away. If she breaks the union through joining another man ONLY then does he have the right to put her away. In actuality he has not really put her away because she has done that through her desertion of the man through her joining another man. He may let her leave if she is an unbeliever and will not follow him, which reveals that she is in sin and unbelief with no hope of heaven, but the man, short of the woman being sexually immoral, has no biblical ground to put her away.
The heart that seeks to live this though through putting a woman away because it is no longer convenient reveal that they walk in corruption. That way is corrupt and ungodly. Those men who live this way have no hope of heaven unless they repent and embrace Christ as Lord of their life (see 1 John 3). Prostitution by either gender does not have to be for money for it to qualify as prostitution. The gain can be for money but it can also be for just personal temporal benefits. And when a man takes any woman to himself so long as it is only convenient but then puts her away when it is not to only in turn go out to seek another, that man shows his true colors, he is a male prostitute.
