A) INTRODUCTION.

B) OTHER BIBLE TEXTS.

C) OBJECTIONS.

 

 

A) INTRODUCTION

 

 

So sorry Ladies that we have to go over this.  The FACT that God created only one man (Note:  Only one man per one woman also) and only one woman for that man, should seriously help that it has ALWAYS been God’s design from “the beginning.”  Compare Genesis 1:26 with Genesis 5:2.  Nor did He create Adam and Steve; or just Eve and Amanda.

 

 

B) OTHER BIBLE TEXTS

 

 

In Titus 1:6, Paul (guided by the Holy Spirit) instructs “elders,” Titus 1:5, to be “the husband of [ONLY] one wife.”  He follows that up in First Timothy 3:2:  “A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,” the “blameless[ness]” being, “the husband of [ONLY] one wife.”  Continuing on in First Timothy 3:12:  “Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”  I like this, for it gives another good reason why one should only have “one wife.”  If you have more than “one wife,” the teaching of the children can become confusing.

 

Also, in Malachi 2:15, God instructs that He only made “one” to be your wife, as in Genesis 2:21-23, and to not “deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.”  Now that can mean more than just being faithful to her (the only wife), but also not to abuse her in any way.

 

This brings us to First Timothy 5:9 (waited on this one because it has to be explained):  “Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.”  For our study here, we can see that this type of woman would only be accepted if FIRST, she was “the wife of {ONLY] one man, and SECOND, if she met the requirements of verse 10:  “Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.”

 

The meaning is, “Let her not be taken into the list of those for which the Church must provide for if she was unfaithful.  And that no widow was to be admitted into that position who did not answer to the following character of verse 10.  But again, only “the wife of {ONLY] one man” was to be acceptable for Biblical lifestyle.

 

Argue with Jesus not with me.  He instructed, in Matthew 19:8-9, that one should not put away his wife in order to marry another, and if he does, he is committing “adultery.”  Now that is important, for it brings us to the very commitment of the sanctified life of every believer, adherence to the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” Exodus 20:14.  If we didn’t know what “adultery” was already, Jesus (Who gave us this Law in the first place) defines it for us here, in that it is having more than one wife (better, sexual partner).  In other words, God/Jesus from the beginning, designed it to be so, that man should only have “one wife.”

 

Mark 10:6-8 is even more clear (see also Matthew 19:5-6 & Ephesians 5:31):  “[6] But from the beginning of the creation [WHEN?] God made them [HOW MANY?] male and female. [7] For this cause shall a man [HOW MANY?] leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife [HOW MANY?]; [8] And they twain [HOW MANY?] shall be one flesh [HOW MANY?; not two, three, or four wives]:  so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.”  This does not make any sense if there is more than “one wife.”

 

 

C) OBJECTIONS

 

 

You may say, this only applies to “deacons,” “elders,” or basically, the leaders in the Church, and not apply to all Church members.  I think you are searching for an excuse here and should check over the Ten Commandments again.  You may have missed other instructions in Them; such as looking at other women other than your wife of your youth (see Mat. 5:28).

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