Jon: Why do you take bible figures as perfect? Part of the reason for our being shown their lives is to learn from them, good and bad, God had to fix the situation with the Eygptian Pharaoh... They made many mistakes, just like all of us. Do not think that everything they did was perfect before god because it was not. Their faith, our faith, in God through Jesus Christ saves us, but it does not make us perfect. King David got a man killed so he could have his wife, he had non-wives for babies, many other things. Follow God not men.
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. (1KINGS 15: 5 AKJV) Jon, please forgive me for misunderstanding what you were saying. It would appear that you have also misunderstood me. I am not saying that these men were perfect as you suggest that I do. They were righteous men, better men than you or I may ever be, but they were not "perfect" in the sense of the Modern English word. The Apostle Paul told us to follow him even as he followed Christ. Was the Apostle Paul a man? Was this a sin for him to say this? Will God punish him for telling the Church to follow him?
I guess we back to agreeing to disagree, my main concern is that you do not seem to understand that the word tells us to obey Government as long it does not make us disobey God. Not marry more than one wife does not break God law...
Likewise Jon, I could easily say to you, "Marry more than one wife does not break God's law." You see? It is the same. But I think I have been a little harsh with you because in my country my secular government RECOGNIZES the COMMON-LAW MARRIAGE ACT as legitimate and lawful marriage even calling it "EQUIVALENCY TO MARRIAGE". It has no law against polygynous common-law marriage and for this I am truly grateful. Only that filthy unisex contract signed and endorsed by the Sodomites, Catamites, and Lesbians of our temporal government forbids us to marry more than one spouse at-a-time in a writ of CIVIL CONTRACT of MARRIAGE licenced by these same secular, feces-loving, God-hating, humanistic :::COUGH::: "DIGNITIES" and I don't believe my LORD appointed these pigs to rule over me for one second; but rather, these filthy men and women with MUCH MONEY and POWER and influence, purchased their political power in corruption; even to push their private sodomy agendas through in their homosexual lusts that earned them much filthy lucre from their private secular night clubs and other deviant exploits. If the MAJORITY of the DEMOCRACY "rules" despite the fact that Jesus said "many are called and few are chosen", despite the fact that He warned us that it was the minority that would find the STRAIT GATE, I verily do not believe that these pigs and dogs were annointed and appointed of God to have the RULE over His people. No, I think I now know who the TRUE GOVERNMENT is. I assure you that it wasn't the Sodmomites and Lesbians and all those abominations that the world voted into office. I don't buy that lie anymore.
Yet nobody here, who supports the scriptures called "Two Wives", as God called it, has even ventured to make a law stating that all men must marry two wives. We are not legalists. Only YOU are trying to tell us that this "only one wife" is a law. Yet you cannot produce the law that you claim exists IN THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD. If you cannot produce that law, then what God calls "Two Wives" is NOT A SIN. If you CAN produce the law then you can also call God a liar. Now Jon, quit whining and show us the law that makes God a liar. I am very eager to read this law you keep insisting exists in God's perfect will. It would seem to me that the BRIDE OF CHRIST is comprised of a vast multitude. Perhaps we should start following GOD'S OWN EXAMPLE rather than following LEGALISTIC MEN who make up LAWS that are foreign to his WORD. Yes Jon, let's follow after our LORD'S EXAMPLE instead of these vulgar men who try to keep us in bondage to the letter of the law in ink and paper having no regard for the SPIRIT which gives us LIFE. PLEASE READ MATTHEW 25... CAREFULLY... then come back and tell me what Jesus compared HOLINESS to.