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TakeALeapOfFaith

TakeALeapOfFaith

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Hello.
I am searching for Scriptures that are 'pro-polygamy' or can be used to show that it is indeed Biblical. I know I should know this, and I did have a list, but due to life situations- long story- no longer have access to my list and I'm struggling to recall with my memory. I thought there was a post on here with the Scriptures but can't seem to find that post either. So maybe I'm mistaken in that thought.
Reason I'm asking, I have been speaking to a young couple who are interested in polygamy, but the wife is not sure about it all, and I, having previously lived it, wanted to give them the Biblical research for them to grow, discuss and discover together. They are a Christian couple and so any words from wives, first, second or on, and husbands currently living Polygamy, I will pass in to them. Yes, I have given them the website and encouraged them to at least browse the posts, but unsure if they have.
Thank you and God Bless.
 
I think @The Revolting Man is referring to Genesis 20 where Abimelech took Sarah into his harem.

This is a strong passage.

God tells Abimelech that He will kill him for taking another man's wife (adultery).

Abimelech who is already married (and has concubines) protests that he is innocent and has acted in integrity of heart taking Sarah because Abraham deceived him regarding her marital status.

God agrees that Abimelech acted in integrity. This is Divine approval of Abimelech practicing polygamy.
 
1st Kings 15:5

"because David did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite." NASB


This passage indicates that while God disapproved of David's adultery with Bathsheba wife of Uriah, He did approve of David's other marriages. They were all lawful, and did not violate Deuteronomy 17:17.
 
Romans 7:4 KJV
"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God."

Each of us individual Christians (brethren/brothers) are personally and individually united to Christ.
 
1st Corinthians 11:3

"But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ." NASB

Christ is the Personal Head of multiple separate individual men. Marriage reflects the union between God and His people.

This union is reflected in both monogamy and polygynous marriage.
 
Leviticus 18:19 NASB

"And you shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness."

The prohibition of one particular type of polygamy (marrying your wife's sister to vex her) infers that polygamy is generally lawful.
 
It’s equally as strong to point out that scripture never calls it sin or condemns it.

Absence of disapproval is just as powerful as presence of approval.
 
Bartato said:
I think @The Revolting Man is referring to Genesis 20 where Abimelech took Sarah into his harem.

This is a strong passage.

God tells Abimelech that He will kill him for taking another man's wife (adultery).

Abimelech who is already married (and has concubines) protests that he is innocent and has acted in integrity of heart taking Sarah because Abraham deceived him regarding her marital status.

God agrees that Abimelech acted in integrity. This is Divine approval of Abimelech practicing polygamy.
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That’s it! Thank you! Just for icing in that cake we get told the king’s wife’s name too! It’s a completely unambiguous incident and straight from God’s mouth.
 
Polygyny can be neither adultery nor fornication - so what sin is it if not one of those two?
1 Cor. 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
Matt. 8:11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Abraham and Jacob, both polygynists, will be in the kingdom but fornicators and adulterers won't be.
 
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