Polygamy is allowed in Christianity but not allowed in current laws (US)? Why? Do we don't beleive in Jesus?
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Polygamy is allowed by the LORD in the Bible, but unfortunately not by the traditions of man as found in "Christianity". \n\nOne does have to wonder how it is that a man can have any numbers of "babies mommas" and that's perfectly legal, but if he tries to be responsible through marriage to them we then want to put him in jail. What hypocrisy!\n\nUnfortunately US Laws against polygamy has nothing to do with Christianity. It has everything to do with accountability. Men just do not want to be accountable to the women they are intimate with. Which is really a form of victimization.\n\nSo what your left with, is a record rate of unwed mothers, an outrageous divorce rate, and a mass exodus from the church.\n\nGod Bless,\n\nRobert
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Isn't a Married Man with a mistress... kinda Polygamy?\n\nIt's very prevelent in this culture.
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The last answer is completely true. Whatever religion you might happen to be, polygamy is a punishable crime in Turkey. To be accepted legally, all marriages must be performed by a civil servant (not an imam) and they will run a background check to make sure you are not married. Where it happens that people have more than one wife, only one (if any) are legally accepted as such and can claim benefits, etc. In any country in the world, you can live with several women 'as your wives'; there is nothing a government can do to stop that.\n\nI'm not an expert on the Ottoman Empire, but I believe that, as Muslims at the time were subject to a legal system based partly on Shariah, Muslims would have been able to take more than one wife. That's just a guess. But certainly forbidding polygamy was one of the first acts of the modern Turkish Republic.\n\nAnybody who tells you differently is just talking out their a......
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It is not Christian marriage we are fighting over it is civil marriage.\n\nI can already get married in my church and that's great....just doesn't carry any legal weight.
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polygamy is only legal where the civil authorities don't have the guts to deal with it.  Officially it's illegal everywhere.
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christians are "cherry pickers"\n\nThey ignore most of the bible tenets that would apply to them.\n\nThen, like the obscure, ridiculous "gay" bible laws -- those are apparently the MOST IMPORTANT to follow.  so important, that they have serious desire for legislated laws about gay marriage and gay behavior...etc.\n\nFunny.  They don't want to make bible-laws into legislation, though, if they would affect THEM.  No laws about adultery, pre marital sex, extra-marital sex, divorce (hell...divorce is so popular with christians that it's institutionalized).  "But, those darn gays, we have to legislate against them!!  Just nothing to make US illegal"\n\nChristians are MAJOR hypocrites and frauds.
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Polygamy is against the law.  The government has every right to disfranchise them.\n\nRegards,\n-Jim
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Mormons are no longer allowed to be practicing polygamists.\n\nWanton, purposeless lust is also not allowed...\n\nSo no and no and no.
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I think that you may have miss spelled that word. Did you mean polygamous? I am not sure how many and I know that it is defiantely not for me. However, even though it is illegal there are some out there that choose this lifestyle.
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Even though the Bible did not spell out word for word that God allows polygamy, but from the example of Abraham and Jacobs, God never condemned it. God went on blessing Abraham and Jacob because of their righteousness and obedience.\nIf Abraham and Jacob were not right on polygamy, I am sure God would not have bless them so and would have said something.\nOn the other hand, King David and Solomon also practice polygamy, but God condemns that, because of their lustful wickedness.\n\nSo I could conclude that, the practice of polygamy has to be done\nrighteously, if and only if God commands it or allow it to be practiced.\nWhen I say righteously, I mean that the wife willingly agrees to it,\njust like the wife of Abraham and the wife of Jacob, and God has to allow it of course.
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LOL.  I love your question.  Thankfully, Christians choose to ignore those laws.  We tend to pick and choose what to follow from the Bible.  And the next time one of them says something like, "I only discount the law of the Hebrews in the Old Testament, but homosexuality is still wrong in the New Testament," (stated so by Paul, not Jesus) mention the women-are-inferior thing in 1 Corinthians 11:3-10.  I don't know many modern churches that force women to wear a veil.  Personally, I follow Jesus ("love your neighbor"), not Paul (writer of 1 Cor).
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i doubt that the relegions or sects allowing polygamy insist that one have to be polygamous. islam allow 4 wives but even it never says that it is must to have four wives. none of my muslim friends have more than one spouse though there are many who do. i never heard that those monogamous muslims are declare false muslims for it.
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If you attend a true Church that loves and serves God, you would be welcome. The members may not agree with your polygamy, but that is more the reason for them to accept you into their lives and The Church of Christ. How can they be Christians and try to show you what the Bible teaches about marriage if you aren't welcome and comfortable with them. They may think that you are sinful, but in the eyes of God, one sin isn't greater than another. It shouldn't matter if you are a polygamist, a drunk, murderer, of just a white lier.
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you dont understand a thing about polygamy.
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first of all, NETJR is wrong; the term marriage is NOT a christian term (just like a conservative to assume everything started with Jesus) There were marriages thousands of years before Christ!\nYou're right, it's no one's business. If two consenting adults want to get married, they should be able to do so without stark raving lunatic bible thumpers harassing them. Bush DOES NOT believe gays and lesbians should have equal rights; if he did, he wouldn't be trying to amend the constitution to forbid same sex marriages. There is no legitimate argument to support the delusion that gay marriage will somehow undermine traditional marriage, NONE. A ban of gay marriage is discriminatory, and wrong. Let them get married if they want!
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Depends on what type of Christian.  Most maintream religions only allow one.  Some sects of Christianity to allow plural marriages, but not many.\n\nThe real question is why would you.  It's one wife enough torture.  ;)
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Jehovah allowed polygamy among his ancient servants, the Israelites, but he does not allow it now. Is his standard changeable?\n\nJehovah has not changed his view of polygamy. (Psalm 19:7; Malachi 3:6) It was not part of his arrangement for humans from the beginning, and it is not now. When he created Eve as a wife for Adam, Jehovah stated that the divine standard was one wife for one husband. “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.”—Genesis 2:24.\n\nWhen Jesus Christ was on the earth, he restated this position in answer to those who asked about divorce and remarriage. He said: “Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’? So that they are no longer two, but one flesh.” Jesus added: “Whoever divorces his wife, except on the ground of fornication, and marries another commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:4-6, 9) From this it is obvious that taking one or more additional wives is also adultery.\n\nThen why was polygamy allowed in ancient times? Keep in mind that Jehovah did not originate the practice. The first one mentioned in the Bible as having more than one wife was Lamech, a descendant of Cain. (Genesis 4:19-24) When Jehovah brought the Flood of Noah’s day, Noah and his three sons each had only one wife. All polygamists were destroyed in the Flood.\n\nCenturies later when Jehovah chose the Israelites as his people, polygamy already existed among them, although it apparently was far more common to have just one wife. God did not require families to break up where there was more than one wife. Instead, he strictly regulated the practice.—Exodus 21:10, 11; Deuteronomy 21:15-17.\n\nThat this toleration of polygamy was only temporary can be seen not only by what Jesus stated regarding Jehovah’s original standard for marriage but also by what the apostle Paul wrote under the inspiration of God’s holy spirit. He said: “Let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband.” (1 Corinthians 7:2) Paul also was inspired to write that any man appointed as an overseer or a ministerial servant in the Christian congregation must be “a husband of one wife.”—1 Timothy 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6.\n\nThus, Jehovah’s toleration of polygamy came to an end with the formation of the Christian congregation some 2,000 years ago. At that time, the standard for marriage returned to what it was at the beginning of God’s creation of man and woman: one husband, one wife. It is the standard today among God’s people throughout the entire world.—Mark 10:11, 12; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10.