Why was God cool with the OT patriarchs having multiple wives, concubines, and mistresses?
Why was God cool with the OT patriarchs having multiple wives, concubines, and mistresses?
Aaron Davis
Lucas Stewart
The covenants before Christ were passed through blood (except Noah's), so it makes sense to take every opportunity to reproduce under those circumstances.
Leo Evans
wut
Jeremiah Butler
Because he married pagan whores.
Ryder Green
Its not because they were pagan, it's because his heart was divided among multiple wives.
Angel Lee
No. He was a manwhore.
Chase Young
No, it's because they were Pagan whores. Pagan whores God specifically told King Solomon NOT to marry (1 Kings 11). The same Pagan whores that turned Solomon's heart away from God.
Literally 1 Kings 11:4
Jackson Nguyen
Because the Bible doesn't bar a man from having multiple wives. The problem with Solomon is that he idolized pussy over God.
Isaac Barnes
My bad
I still think my reason is a just reason as well, but yes I concede completely.
James Sanders
It's okay friend. I'm glad to have helped
Isaiah Bennett
God only gave Adam one wife. That was by design. Noah had one wife. Also, why is God "cool" with you sinning, user? How about you judge yourself before you judge others?
Angel Cooper
What about Lilith?
Aiden Baker
Where is Lilith mentioned in the Bible?
Evan Stewart
Solomon also sinned by 'multiplying wives to himself'.
biblegateway.com
ADDING wives was evidently considered acceptable, i.e. meet a new woman, get to know her, marry her, meet another new woman, get to know her, marry her. MULTIPLYING wives was a sin, i.e. just acquiring a bunch of women you don't even know for a harem.
Landon Bailey
The word multiplying in that context doesn't carry precise mathematical connotations, it just means increase
Joshua Phillips
Masturbation makes you feel good but doesn't do anything for the person you're thinking of. Just like prayer.
Aiden Thompson
She isn't mentioned in the Bible. She is mentioned in the (((Talmud))), however.
Aiden Smith
Literal OC donut steel
Wyatt Davis
Jayden Davis
The israeli army seems to think playing porn in captured palestinian TV stations diminishes enemy morale. So not even that.
Aiden Wood
Except for the Kings of ancient Israel who were prone to multiplying their women and worshiping their wives’ false gods, nowhere in the bible is there a command against having more than one wife.
Yet, men should not think it an easy feat. It is hard work. Just like marriage has been romanticized to an unhealthy level to the point of forgetting its true purpose, the idea of having many wives has also generated many unrealistic sexual fantasies that ignore the true purpose of such an arrangement.
Throughout the Bible most men opted for only one wife. Even today in places where the laws and the religion openly allow for such a possibility, most men still prefer to marry just one woman.
However, if a man desires more than one, he must be willing to accede to God’s command of taking care of the wives equally, without neglecting the children. And that means providing to all without prejudice or favoritism.
“But if someone doesn’t provide for their own family…They are worse than those who have no faith.” 1 Timothy 5:8
Ultimately, the decision to have one wife or many is between the individual and God, the woman or women he wants to marry, and the respective families.
“Marriage should be honored by all…” Hebrews 13:4
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Jordan Edwards
She's just one of those people that never existed.