Amberon11:
God didn't show that he wanted men to marry one wife only by creating only Eve for Adam? Did God instruct Jacob it any person to marry more than one wife?

David despite being a friend of God couldn't save himself , Jesus Christ still had to come save all the saints, that's I meant by that statement.

There are several verses of the Bible where God instructed on marrying one wife only. Find them and stop deceiving yourself.

RuthlessLeader:

If God wants man to marry one wife, why did he not stop Jacob?

Amberon11:
If God didn't want Adam to eat the fruit,
why did he not stop him?

RuthlessLeader:

I don't know. That is why I am an atheist. How can an omnipotent and omniscient god who is all loving allow his child to do something like that?

Amberon11:
There is something called free will and God doesn't interfere with it. That is why people like you spend hours insulting him everyday and yet you're still alive. That is why you can go blow up a place and kill people, it is your choice. That he allows all these happen doesn't by any stretch of immagination disprove his existence.

RuthlessLeader:

Free will? So because of free will, God allowed Adam to doom all of us?

Would you allow a rapist to go to the school your daughter goes to so that he can lure and kidnap her all because of free will? Because that is what God did by letting Satan enter the garden to tempt eve, you know?

Amberon11:
Would you allow your house boy insult you every single day for long hours while doing nothing about it? That is what God takes from you.

asuustrike2009:

Abraham didn't marry three wives. He married one : Sarah. The latter two : Hagar and Keturah were not married, they were concubines. meanwhile, Keturah became a concubine after Sarah's death. The affair with Hagar was a result of the impatience in every man today... Of that he broke relationship with upon counsel by His wife also who instigated the move at first.



Jesus Christ didn't come to marry. He was a man on a mission. The circumstance of his mission or life's purpose does not permit him to marry. He'd be a thwarting of purpose to have married.
Paul likewise, it wasn't fitted with the kind of ministry he did and how sold out he was to God or has devoted himself. .
He recommended not to marry, not condemned marriage. in that scripture, he clearly states that He speaks by permission not by commandment. permission talks about the revelation he received that by liberty one could choose to abstain like himself did and not be condemned or judged wrong.. By commandment speaks about what God ordained with man from the beginning(for this purpose shall a man..... ).
either ways, by permission or commandment, one is not found to be outside of God's purpose. The reply of Jesus bears witness to this in Matt. 19.

asuustrike2009:

Abraham didn't marry three wives. He married one : Sarah. The latter two : Hagar and Keturah were not married, they were concubines. meanwhile, Keturah became a concubine after Sarah's death. The affair with Hagar was a result of the impatience in every man today... Of that he broke relationship with upon counsel by His wife also who instigated the move at first.



Jesus Christ didn't come to marry. He was a man on a mission. The circumstance of his mission or life's purpose does not permit him to marry. He'd be a thwarting of purpose to have married.
Paul likewise, it wasn't fitted with the kind of ministry he did and how sold out he was to God or has devoted himself. .
He recommended not to marry, not condemned marriage. in that scripture, he clearly states that He speaks by permission not by commandment. permission talks about the revelation he received that by liberty one could choose to abstain like himself did and not be condemned or judged wrong.. By commandment speaks about what God ordained with man from the beginning(for this purpose shall a man..... ).
either ways, by permission or commandment, one is not found to be outside of God's purpose. The reply of Jesus bears witness to this in Matt. 19.

Lukuluku69:


I like intelligent replies. This above ^^^^ is one. But I have some issues with. Abraham, a Prophet and Friend of God can never take a concubine not to talk of concubines! The Bible clearly recorded that Abraham took a wife every time the name Hagar and Keturah came up and I will show you now. You can fact checked any references I give in my post.
1.16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. Genesis
2.25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. Genesis
Now, in the Bible reading further down, you will see references made to both noble Ladies as Concubines. You can't be a wife and a concubine to the same man. Those concubine references were made by bigot Jewish hands simply to show that they were the only blessed Children of Abraham.

Amberon11:
Abraham was Jewish. Nothing you say can change that

Lukuluku69:


It is not what I said but what the cold hard fact of history says. The dude was never a Jew as you can't name him after a grandson's name\alias

Amberon11:
Abraham was a Jew. Any other thing is not fact but fiction.

Lukuluku69:



14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. Genesis

The bible says he was Hebrew!

Amberon11:
He was Hebrew but his religion was Judaism as the religion of the hebrews is known today as Judaism. The Jews trace their origins to the ancient hebrews so yes Abraham was a Jew.

It seems you have no knowledge of what you speak about.

Lukuluku69:


Now listen before you throw words around about someone being knowledgeable or not. The Bible called Abraham a Hebrew: meaning a man or someone from beyond the River Euphrates which is the Plains of Mesopotamia in present day Iraq. Do Jews ever have their dwellings in Mesopotamia pre-Abrahmic era?

I know it is a tough job weaning folks like you from years of indoctrination. The best we could is to lay the facts on the Table and hope "perchance they will reflect"

Amberon11:
Go educate yourself before spewing thrash. A quick Google search will cure your ignorance.

Wean yourself from your God-obsession first dumbo.

ScepticalPyrrho:
The Bible cannot speak.

But Jesus according to the Bible stories implied that a man shouldn't take more than one wife. He didn't take a wife in his short life time. But the culture of his people allowed polygamy. Majority of his kinsmen also rejected his claims of being a god-child.

I don't know why those who claim they emulate the Bible's Jesus character are keeping wife or wives for themselves and still expect to be called "Jesus-like"(christians).

Even "Paul" did not have a wife. Rather, he advised against having any.

So, doyinbaby, the right question should be whether a Christian should have a wife or husband at all.

doyinbaby:
Did the bible say specifically say Christian men should not marry more than one wife