Okay guys nobody told you not to marry many wives, marry as many wives as you want, and if you bring threads about the hardships you're facing with your many wives, Please do tag me, i know we men want to have as many wives as our wallets alow, but is it God's perfect plan, is God okay with polygamy?
"So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate" (Matthew 19:6).
The Pharisees once asked Jesus, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?" (Matthew 19:3).
I believe Christ's response to their question illustrates a principle that gives light on the question about polygamy. Jesus told the Pharisees, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so"(Matthew 19:8).
The same can be said about polygamy. It was never part of God's perfect plan for a man to have more than one wife.
When we look to the creation of Adam in Eden, God did not create an Eve and a Prisca for him. There was just one wife.
While you can find some laws and provisions for multiple wives in Scripture, just look at all the grief and heartache such homes created.
The stories of Abraham and Hagar, of Jacob with Leah and Rachel, of David and Bathsheba, and the sad commentary of Solomon and his multiple wives only point to the imperfect homes and the many problems that plagued them.
There are scenarios in Scripture that are less than ideal among God's people. Israel wanted a king during the time of Samuel. Because of their stubborn insistence, God reluctantly gave them a king. Now i ask you what happened next after god gave them what their hearts desired instead of listening to God??
Paul gives us another perfect angle on how God deals with those who do not always know the ideal.
He says, "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30).
Polygamy goes against the oneness that God first set up in the marriage of Adam and Eve. A lasting marriage is one in which both partners "forsake all others." Even though we find plural marriages and slavery as a reality during the time of the Patriarchs, they were clearly not the divine ideal. It is "two who become one flesh" and not three or four or five or six that become one flesh, only two become one flesh and your patner(wife) is your other half, you don’t have two or three or four other halves, just one, understand this.
About lilith, you will have to forgive me so saying this, but I find it stupid to base your religious beliefs on some stories that aren't in the bible or misinterpreted, because Genesis clearly tells us that Eve was the first and only wife of Adam, Lucifer is the most smartest being after Jesus that I have ever read about, he is extremely smart, he knows how to interfere with Scriptures, he can mangle facts into whatever he wants the world to believe in defiance to all information in the bible, and he is very good at that and many times people do believe him, because maybe it fits into their preconceived stereotypes.
Therefore, one man for one woman provides the foundation for true intimacy. It also reflects the relationship between Christ and His church.
If you want to do something, just do it, you don't have force it to become the truth.
The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants, it doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies or our sects, truth is just truth.