There are sects, like some Mormons, who are polygamous. There are some free-spirited Christians who are also polygamous (although not in an organised way, just more of a wanting-to-get-rocks-off way
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10 "If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. 11 "If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
1 Kings 11:3
3 He [King Solomon] had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.
2 Chronicles 11:2
21Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters
Deuteronomy 21:15-1715 "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved
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Meh, it's not like I couldn't find more, I just got a phone call at work while I was searching. Anyway, you can always refer to the OT Laws + the Sermon on the Mount (i.e., Jesus came here to fulfill the Laws), and you have a sound Christian argument.
As far as I can tell, there are no places in the NT that forbid polygamy. There are proscriptions against divorce, of course, but that's not specific to monogamous marriages. There is one place in Paul's Epistles that says if you wish to be an overseer/bishop, you must only have one wife - I assume this is because all of those men with more than one wife are way too busy.
My question was getting at more of a lack of polygamous mentions in the NT. doctoreon adequately answered that question.
With so many comments up about this, it seems as though it's acceptable in NT by its omission or by not directly denouncing it, whereas the OT directly addresses it. So at this point, I think a focus on OT is necessary if one wishes to find biblical support for polygamy since the arguments for/against polygamy using the NT both appear tenuous.
it seems as though it's acceptable in NT by its omission or by not directly denouncing it, whereas the OT directly addresses it. So at this point, I think a focus on OT is necessary if one wishes to find biblical support for polygamy since the arguments for/against polygamy using the NT both appear tenuous.
10 "If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.
11 "If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
1 Kings 11:3
3 He [King Solomon] had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.
2 Chronicles 11:2
21Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters
Deuteronomy 21:15-1715 "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved ( ... )
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* That last sentence just seemed better with another verb.
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As far as I can tell, there are no places in the NT that forbid polygamy. There are proscriptions against divorce, of course, but that's not specific to monogamous marriages. There is one place in Paul's Epistles that says if you wish to be an overseer/bishop, you must only have one wife - I assume this is because all of those men with more than one wife are way too busy.
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With so many comments up about this, it seems as though it's acceptable in NT by its omission or by not directly denouncing it, whereas the OT directly addresses it. So at this point, I think a focus on OT is necessary if one wishes to find biblical support for polygamy since the arguments for/against polygamy using the NT both appear tenuous.
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That about sums it up for me, I think.
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