So would it be wrong for me to invite the WSIDR, whynotaskdon, whynotaskdonna, and whynotaskdonking over for a little love party? I'd invite whynotaskdonny, but I know he's not into girls. He might be able to get lucky with whynotaskdon, though!
I mean, Abraham had multiple wives. You muslims all claim to be born from him, don't you? So there's two religions which should allow multiple sex partners, right?
2006-09-30 14:20:11 · 12 answers · asked by whynotaskprairiedawn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'll be there and I'll be wearing my best pink shirt! Look out boys!
P.S. - God made Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve.
2006-10-01 02:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by WhyNotAskDonny 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does indeed record various personal sexual and marital practices. This does not, however, constitute a promotion of all such practices. We can find instances of homosexuality, rape, incest, prostitution, and concubinage recorded in the Bible, for example, but we can also find Biblical passages PROHIBITING such actions.
So why, you may ask, are these practices found in the Bible? Simple. The Bible writers did not record ONLY the inspired words of God. They ALSO recorded the uninspiring actions of sinful men (and women).
Hence we have the recorded action of Abraham taking a servant girl as a concubine, so she could give him a son (his firstborn). Later on, it is recorded that the boy and his concubine mother were disinheirited, so the younger brother could inheirit the bulk of Abraham's estate.
Was God just pleased as punch that this happened? No. While He did bless Ishmael as a son of Abraham, Ishmael's existence was not part of God's original plan for Abraham. Neither was the taking of the concubine. Those actions were outside of God's will for Abraham, but done anyway. Interestingly enough, when God gave the Law to Moses several centuries later, He made a POINT of making this sort of disinheiritence ILLEGAL for the Isrealites. We could even call it "Hagar's Law", after the Egyptian maid that Abraham dumped.
So, just because something is found in the Bible, that doesn't indicate that God "likes" that activity.
Also, there is a difference between a man taking multiple wives, and a bunch of unmarried people getting together for an orgy. A multiple marriage is still a marriage, albiet a strange one. Adultery laws still apply. Pagan Romans were fond of orgies; they don't count as "moral giants" in the Bible.
2006-09-30 21:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God allowed Abraham to have multiple wives because this took place after the flood & God wanted to populate the world agan. In the new testament he said for man to" love your wife as God loves the church" He did not say WIVES. If you want to have more then one wife perhapes you should be a Muslim. The Mormons have forbid the practice of taking more then one wife.Pleas name me the second religion that allows more then one wife.
2006-09-30 22:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by BUTCH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God allowed polygamy, although the practice of mutiple wives did not originate with him. However, after the inseption of Christianity, God did away with this practice. At 1 Corinthians 3:2, to qualify to be an overseer in the congregation, a man was to be a husband of ONE wife.
2006-09-30 22:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOVERMENT should stay out of marriage & sex issues and let people do what they wish to do with mutual consent. The True Testement of The Bible has many examples of multiple marriage. In a sparsely populated society with ascarcity of men due to wars and other circumstanses it can only make sense for one man to have several wives and the wives in turn help each other to raise children and managed the house and often the family farm.
Peace....
2006-09-30 21:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Polygamy was alright for that time because the earth had to be popluated. Now that there are a lot of people roaming around polygamy should be put behind us like so many things of the past. Just because something happened in the past doesn't make it right. Just look at the holocaust and segregation.
2006-09-30 21:25:11 · answer #6 · answered by peach49444 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abram first married Sarai(Sarah), after she died, Abraham then married keturah. He may have had two wives, but was married to only one at a time.
2006-09-30 21:35:57 · answer #7 · answered by stever 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
invite them all over darling, but no sex until your all married....I don't have a problem with polygamy except that it isn't fair....I have never known a man that could satisfy multiple women,,,,,so its not fair to us. Now, if I could have a few husbands ........ what do they call that anyway?
2006-09-30 21:25:43 · answer #8 · answered by WitchTwo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WTG,Don!
Later:
I'd like to say to Peach and Charles, you cant have it both ways, kids. If you don't like the way it reads in the bible, you don't get to pick and choose. You think something is out of place from the bible, then its ALL out of place
And to BearStirring. If government should stay out of marriage, then Religion ought to stay out of MY bedroom when I find my mate of choice. You want the right to hook up with people of your choice, so do I. Please keep your religious paws off MY choice.
2006-09-30 21:23:22 · answer #9 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because something was done way back when, does not mean the Bible is telling us to do it today. Indeed, the Bible clearly categorizes why such relationships do not work!
2006-09-30 21:31:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋