Polygamy was obviously not part of God’s original design for marriage (Gen 2:24; also see 1 Tim 3:2, Tit 1:6), yet it does seem that polygamy was permitted under the Law of Moses and practiced by several famous OT character (e.g. Jacob, David, etc.). To help us understand why, it is useful to look at [...]
Answers about divorce
Nowhere in the Old or New Testaments does God say that people who have remarried need to divorce their new spouse and remarry their first spouse. In fact, under the Law of Moses, the closest scenario strictly forbids remarrying the first spouse: {1} When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she [...]
The full question was: “Can my husband qualify as a Deacon or Elder? He has only had one wife, me, but I was married once before and divorced when young. So he is the husband of one wife.” The source verses: Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their [...]
God’s rules have been clear from the beginning: one husband, one wife. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Gen 2:24). Jesus commented on this: “So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, [...]
