Men born polygamous? is it true? is it witten in a bible? or hearsay?

Answer 1

Men have a polymorphous sexuality. Until they learn better, men will look for sex just about anywhere--women, men, children, pornographic pictures, animals, close relatives, fetish objects, disembodied telephone voices. When a man has an erection, he's not particular.

It was the ancient Hebrews, alone in the ancient world, that restricted sex to marriage. Dennis Prager writes:

The gods of virtually all civilizations engaged in sexual relations. In the Near East, the Babylonian god Ishtar seduced a man, Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero. In Egyptian religion, the god Osiris had sexual relations with his sister, the goddess Isis, and she conceived the god Horus. In Canaan, El, the chief god, had sex with Asherah. In Hindu belief, the god Krishna was sexually active, having had many wives and pursuing Radha; the god Samba, son of Krishna, seduced mortal women and men. In Greek beliefs, Zeus married Hera, chased women, abducted the beautiful young male, Ganymede, and masturbated at other times; Poseidon married Amphitrite, pursued Demeter, and raped Tantalus. In Rome, the gods sexually pursued both men and women.

The Bible contains much history, and some of the Hebrews were polygamous. That is not how it was in the beginning, as Jesus explained:

At the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Answer 2

Polygamy is a “marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time .

From the very beginning God created one woman for one man (see Genesis 1:27 2:21-25).

Deuteronomy 17:17 explicitly instructed the king not to “multiply wives.”

Moses’ law said, the king “shall not multiply horses to himself… Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold” (Deuteronomy 17:16-17).

- If bigamy is sinful, why did King Solomon have so many wives?

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Polygamy’s origins and consequences

A very important point to remember is that not everything recorded in the Bible is approved in the Bible. Consider where polygamy originated — first in the line of the murderer Cain, not the godly line of Seth. The first recorded polygamist was the murderer Lamech (Gen. 4:23–24). Then Esau, who despised his birthright, also caused much grief to his parents by marrying two pagan wives (Gen. 26:34).

God also forbade the kings of Israel to be polygamous (Deut. 17:17). Look at the trouble when they disobeyed, including deadly sibling rivalry between David’s sons from his different wives; and Solomon’s hundreds of wives helped lead Solomon to idolatry (1 Kings 11:1–3). Also, Hannah, Samuel’s mother, was humiliated by her husband Elkanah’s other wife Peninnah (1 Sam. 1:1–7).

What about godly men who were polygamous?

Abraham and Sarah would have been monogamous apart from a low point in their faith when Hagar became a second wife — note how much strife this caused later. Jacob only wanted Rachel, but was tricked into marrying her older sister Leah, and later he took their slave girls at the sisters’ urging, due to the rivalry between the sisters. Jacob was hardly at a spiritual high point at
those times, and neither was David when he added Abigail and Ahinoam (1 Sam. 25:42–43).

Why did God seem to allow it, then?

It is more like the case of divorce, which God tolerated for a while under certain conditions because of the hardness of their hearts, but was not the way it was intended from the beginning (Matt. 19:8). But whenever the Mosaic law had provisions for polygamy, it was always the conditional ‘If he takes another wife to himself …’ (Ex.21:10), never an encouragement. God put a number of obligations of the husband towards the additional wives which would discourage polygamy. It is no wonder that polygamy was unknown among the Jews after the Babylonian exile, and monogamy was the rule even among the Greeks and Romans by New Testament times.

Answer 3

That is not true, one man, one woman, in Genesis, Adam said and man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife, chapter 2:24, wife, singular, it is true that in the old testament of the Bible a lot of men had more than one wife but as you can see from the very begining God wanted a man and a woman to marry and stay married until death. Polygamous stuff is all hearsay

Answer 4

As far as I know the bible does not support polygamy. But Lindsey was correct in saying that men, like all animals, are born with the natural instinct to spread their seed and have many offspring. In this way I suppose you can say men are born polygamous.

Answer 5

Would it make it true if it were written in a bible?
Seems like bible is hearsay anyway.

If you are speaking from a scientific point of view, likely it is true that the male of the human species is biologically polygamous.

Answer 6

We are to have but one spouse. The stories in various cultures in the world of the gods and goddesses and all the evil they do are of the devil. He was and still is trying to convince the world that if they do it, then it must be ok. Even great men of the Bible did wrong. They were forgiven by God and hopefully, future generations will learn from their mistakes and not recreate them.

Answer 7

ok no one is born polygamous. No one is born with multiple marriage certificates, obviously.
HOWEVER it is true that men are not biologically inclined toward monogamy. It is more natural to seek multiple partners, but people are monogamous because it is the only relationship considered acceptable in our society these days . Maybe that's what you were asking?

Answer 8

Humans are just highly evolved animals. Generally in the animal kingdom (which includes us as cousins), males are not inclined to take only one mate. This ensures biodiversity and the continuation of the species. It has nothing to do with the bible!

Answer 9

God made 1 wife for Adam. There are people in the bible that had more. Solomon for instance had over 3000.

Answer 10

Polygamy is present cross culturally and is not a requirement in any religious belief. Polygamy has also been used as a way to oppress women, so no I do not think men are "born" that way-- it's culturally conditioned.