How could Abraham be a friend of God and an unrepentant polygamist if polygamy was wrong?
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The answer is so obvious.\n\nPolygamy is not wrong.\n\nGod gave David wives, blessed Leah for giving her husband another wife, and shows a preference for polygamous men throughout the Old Testament.\n\nGod legislated marriage, including the cases where a man would take another wife.\n\nGod illustrates his relationship with his people as a polygamous one. \n\nHow could he do any of that if it was sinful?\n\nThink about it.\n\nGod Bless,\n\nRobert
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im sick of people repaeting this and that line of the bible. if i wanted that answer id read it for myself haha.my logic says there must be a god but it also tells me that another man shouldnt judge me by his own standards of how to be a good follower
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NO!  God points out in the Bible who is is.  He is pleased to make us have friendship with Him, but it has to be on His terms.  We are sinful and without any who can save except God's son, Jesus, since he is both God and man and was willing to lay his life on earth down for us in payment for us...to pay for our sin debt.  He paid that we might have life and have it abundantly and forever with Him, not only on this earth, but in a heaven that will not suffer anything or become corrupt.  Read the Bible.  It has answers for anyone who is a true seeker of truth.
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Good question! joahchun has a great one line answer. But I am the babbling type.\n\nAbraham was concerned for Lot and his family. He was negotiating to have them removed first. Abraham did not argue with God because he knew that God was incapable of lying. God had promised that through Isaac, Messiah would come. So, God had a problem... no Isaac, no Messiah. Scripture states that Abraham knew that what God was asking him to do was prophetic of the Messiah's sacrifice, so he was positive that God would raise Isaac in three days. But God did it differently and stopped the sacrifice and provided a subsititute instead.
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I don't see how having a wife would make him less perfect. That does not mean he lusted, God created Eve for Adam, so why would he not create someone for Jesus? And remember Eve was created for Adam BEFORE sin existed, so how could having a companion be a sin?
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Agreed.  I don't think the biblical god is God, if there is a god.  I don't think god would be a spiteful, vengeful, mysterious god.  If there is a god (and I am open to the possibility), then it would be a nice god.
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Let me ask you a question first. If you were unsaved and knew you would go to hell but didn't know how to not go, wouldn't you want someone to share there faith with you?\nSome don't want to be told I know but 1st God commands it of us(Acts 1:8) 2nd if you have the opportunity to talk to someone about God but you don't you could be missing out on a blessing that you would have gotten if you had shared with them. 3rd Can't you just imagine how excited both of you would be if that person got saved, and can't you imagine how pleased God would be with you? \nI think those are pretty good reason, jah?
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Paul was a person too...and people are flawed.  Judah was only one brother of 11 who sold his youngest brother to slave traders and Jesus came from his line.  It isn't our job to judge other people or allow them to alter our faith in God.  I think that if it were found that he plead guilty because he was then he was a human doing better than most humans because most wouldn't plead guilty...they would lie and try to cover up what they did.  The key to this question is the idea of repentance...we should focus on his repentance and turning from sin rather than the sin.  Being a man of God doesn't make him exempt from the human tendancy to sin...that's the name of the game when you have true faith...the temptation doesn't go away, it's how you deal with it.
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He does come to us. He does talk to us. You are missing it. For you sake, I hope one day you will wonder why. Asking questions is a good start. The one you have ask is going in the wrong direction.  You must ask yourself: 'but , what if the Bible is true'? Now try to answer that. \nYou are just as special to God as Abraham was. The Bible says that Abraham "believed God", and that alone made him righteous. Abraham was no saint. That means that God has time for you. Do you, for him?
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Scripture is silent about it, is the short answer.  No mention of a good or bad relationship is made.  (Gen. 11:27-32, 12:1-5).  \nSome have inferred that because he left, his family was upset with him; that was how a TV miniseries portrayed it, anyway.  It would have been difficult to leave a land his family had settled in, and perhaps they resented him taking off on the orders of a God they didn't know.  But Terah still had another married son, so he wasn't being left alone; maybe Terah was proud of his son's pioneering spirit and blessed him.  We simply don't know.    \nEither way, Abraham obeyed, and the history of man was changed forever.
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This actually happened, in the Bible there's a story about a man named Abraham and God asked him to kill his only son Isaac. And in Abraham's heart he was going to go through with it, he was going to kill his son because God told him to do it, but at the last second an angel appeared and told  Abraham to stop and instead of having to kill his son, God sent an animal instead. So God gave Abraham his son back. \n\nI would hope that I would have the faith and courage Abraham had, if God asked me to do this.
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It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n(Matthew 5:3,32)\n   \n\nAnd the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.\n--Mark 10:2-12 \n And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart,, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, 0 wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, 0 man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.\n--I Corinthians 7:1-17 \n\n\nNow, for those who are married I have a command, not just a suggestion. And it is not a command from me, for this is what the Lord Himself has said: A wife must not leave her husband. But if she is separated from him, let her remain single or else go back to him. And the husband must not divorce his wife." I Corinthians 7:10-11, TLB\n\n\n"Why has God abandoned us?" you cry. I'll tell you why; it is because the Lord has seen your treachery in divorcing your wives who have been faithful to you through the years, the companions you promised to care for and keep. You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in His sight. And what does He want? Godly children from your union. Therefore guard your passions! Keep faith with the wife of your youth. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says He hates divorce and cruel men. Therefore control your passions—let there be no divorcing of your wives." Malachi 2:14-16, TLB\n\nDo not lose heart, for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  II Corinthians 4:17\n\n\nIf Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.            I Corinthians 15:17-22
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Abraham(Ibrahim) was asked to sacrifice his son, Ishmael(Ismail)..\nit's written in the Quran.\n\nlet me explain. Abraham has 2 wives. i forgot their names. Isaac is his son with his first wife. Ishmael is his son too but with his second wife. they are both his sons\n\nAl Qur'an is the latest 'book' the god sent us. the Holy Bible was written thousands of years before that. there are new things that the god wants to tell us. so i trust Al-Qur'an, the last testament
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Just who told you it is morally wrong to love two people at the same time? It is NOT immoral at all. Polygamy is alive and well and I think the civil laws against it should be repealed. \n\nIf you want to look at it Biblically, multi-marriages were very common in the Old Testament and although not directly spoken of in the New Testament it is still there.\n\nThe plural marriages usually spoken of in Utah concerning the Mormon Church is not a good kind of polygamy because it is forced upon the woman. Standard or Christian polygamy is perfectly good and is not forced upon anyone.\n\nIf the two men have no problems with both having and loving you then you should pursue it. \n\nRead more about it through the web sites below if you wish.
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Not lately, but yeah it's a Biblical problem. Abraham was stopped from sacrificing Isaac supposedly because God saw that he was willing to do it and that he was then convinced of Abrahams loyalty. Problem with that is it implies that God DIDN'T KNOW what Abraham would do AHEAD OF TIME. Since he is supposedly all-knowing, that really doesn't wash.\n\nAlso we have God supposedly telling everyone that to murder is wrong, but then he goes and kills a few thousand people in a couple of cities where he disapproves of their behavior, and tells his followers to kill others in his name in more than a few wars, inquisitions, etc.\n\nYep, pretty hard to swallow...
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I would ask Adam what it was like to actually walk and talk with God.I think it would be awesome to do that. I would hold no resentment towards him, for God knew all things concerning Adams Life when he created him.
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The thing is this, Abraham still would have suffered the loss of his son, even though God had promised that the promised seed would be through Isaac, Abraham did not know when God would resurrect Isaac knowing he could, God could have resurrected Isaac long after Abraham had died and Abraham would have to live out his life without his son who he loved. Jesus still suffered the pains of that sacrifice, he suffered much, he was scourged by the Romans, meaning that they whipped him with whips that commonly had bits of bone and scrap metal braided into the whips that would literally rip the flesh from your body exposing the muscle underneath the flesh, had a crown of thorns pushed down upon his head that tore into his flesh, carried his own torture stake, was nailed to that stake hands overhead to make breathing difficult, mocked ridiculed during the entire time and in front of his mother and friends, accused of blasphemy, spit upon, struck by his persecutors, kept awake during the entire trial and punishment, and still suffered the final pangs of death itself, would you think after suffering all this that the sacrifice had no worth, and also Jehovah God himself had to endure this as he watched from heaven as his Son was treated this way and for the first time since his creation eons ago in heaven, God was truely without his Son as Jesus was truely dead, he no longer existed, because as the Bible points out, we are a soul we don't have one, when we die we go into nonexistence until God would resurrect us. Sounds like a genuine sacrifice  to me and one of  the greatest love ever shown on both parts of Jehovah God and his Son Jesus Christ.