christians, what is the difference between The righteousness of plural marriage and adultery?

Question

Good answers from a christian tradition and perspective.
but is not adultery having sex with another mans wife? !!! what if a virgin does not belong to any other man?

Answer 1

I will "play along" with this, just to show you that it was wrong and not God's design.

David was married to Michal, Saul's daughter. He saw Bathsheba, lusted after her, it lead to the killing of her husband, eventually lead to the child's death and constant trouble in his house. Sin had its consequences.

Solomon married over 300 women, many from outside the Jewish customs. This was a way for kings to make peace with each other by marrying from each other's family. Solomon eventually was lead astray by these wives. This lead to the separation of tribes and lands between Judah and Israel.
Both were not good and not truly blessed by God.

Answer 2

I don't know how "righteous" a plural marriage can be. While I understand that in the OT times, it wasn't uncommon for men to have more than one wife, I have yet to see where such a relationship was happy for all parties. The women in such relationships considered each other "rivals" for their shared husband's affections. How righteous is a relationship that makes jealousy, abandonment, and lack of affection the "status quo"?

I don't consider plural marriage that much different from adultery. If the initiating spouse (the one seeking another spouse) is looking for another person to "marry", why are they doing it? I cannot think of any reason to take a second spouse other than selfishness, be it disguised as the desire for more variety, more sex, or more children, than he already has.

I pity the people trapped in plural marriages. Somewhere, they lost the magic of a one-and-only-love. Those who fall into crass adultery (without the crutch of a marriage ceremony) are not much better off. Their attraction is based on sex only, which will make any relationship fail!

Answer 3

I think if you're referring to plural marriage such as that of King David and Solomon then you will know that there was never any righteousness with what they did. You see that behavior of many wives is neither acceptable to God or a Godly thing to do! That was nothing more than a custom acceptable in their culture, God was never in favor of David or men like him having multiple wives, that is a deisre of the heart of man, Not God! I believe nonetheless that God allowed it because they were not just having sex with these women, but marrying them first. In otherwords I believe they were trying to do the right thing while perhaps unknowingly doing the wrong thing.

Adultery is literally lusting after anyone in your heart or physically having sex with someone, that is not your spouse! Jesus said if any man lusts after a woman in his heart, he has committed adultry with her, be it a virgin or a married woman. How? That man is expressing lustful desires with a woman that is potentially anothjer man's wife not his own, and it remains that way until they are bonded spiritually and phyiscally by marriage. The same goes the opposite for women.

Answer 4

In Mark 10 Jesus spoke of Adam and Eve as a precedent for marriage. He did say that remarriage after divorce is adultery - on the basis that marriage lasts a lifetime. As such Polygamy whether in its serial or parallel form is adulterous. But nonetheless given that God tolerated polygamy under the Law of Moses yet condemned the more overt form of adultery with death, the differences are simply a matter of degree, but all are in the category of adultery.

Answer 5

Adultery is having sex with someone else's spouse.
Plural marriage was allowed and even sometimes forced, under the laws of Moses. For instance if a man's brother died. He had to take his widow as an another wife. That is why Onan was cursed. He refused to give seed to his dead brother's widow. Allowing her children to inherit part of the family land. He had sex with her, but would ejaculate on the ground.

Answer 6

Plural marriage IS adultery.

Answer 7

The righteousness of plural marriage ? new to me.
more then 1 spouse = adultery

Answer 8

Adultery is having a sexual relationship with another person other than your spouse. However, to even think about it is adultery "... but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart " [Matthew 5:28]. So you married guys and dolls who hasn't committed adultery?

Answer 9

I laughed out loud once you pronounced the Bible teaches that a guy is to have only one spouse. The Bible is chock full of examples while God Himself directed a guy to take greater desirable than one spouse. Even those authorized to coach plural marriage have been roundly condemned while they abused the regulations. David replaced into authorized to take countless better halves, yet while he had Bathsheba's husband killed so he might have her to himself, that replaced into needless to say incorrect. nonetheless, the time-honored rule is that each guy might desire to have one spouse, nonetheless God did make exceptions in the time of a few old testomony cases, and interior the nineteenth century. the important element to keep in mind is that it extremely is now been properly over a century using fact the Lord final authorized plural marriage. easily our enemies can arise with something a splash greater well timed to bash us with now!

Answer 10

There is no such thing as "The righteousness of plural marriage" in Christianity.

That is sin as far as the God of the Bible is concerned.

Jesus reminded us that as God intended from the beginning, marriage was relationship between one man and one woman, the two shall become one flesh.

Jesus did not say that "Three become one flesh" or "sixty five become one flesh."

It sounds like you've run into some Mormons or Muslims.

Which are both false cults.

Pastor Art