Be Diligent…

I thought I had heard just about everything!  I was truly amazed when we, as a country, began to debate same-sex marriage.  I could not believe that a country founded on Christian principles (and we were) could ever sink so low as to even think about marriage being anything but one man and one woman.  Well, yesterday, on the radio, I got another jolt.  There are bills up in 5 states to allow multiple marriages, both polygamy and polyandry.  At this point, it is just to have one of one sex and two of the other.  The “talking point” is that, if three adults agree to live in this arangement, the government has no right to  hinder them.  The ACLU is backing this, of course.  I guess since we now think nothing of couples “living together” (we used to call that “shacking up”), we should not be surprized at anything some might think up.

The big question is, what does God say about this?  Has He told us what He would approve of, and what He would disapprove of?  Does it matter what God thinks?  Does it matter if we do it His way or not?

First of all, it matters a great deal.  The Bible clearly tells us that if we do not obey God, He will not save us in the end.  If we are disobedient, our ultimate goal is not Heaven, but Hell.  (Yes, there is a Hell, and many will go there, but that is another article.)  God has chosen the obedient to go to Heaven, and it is our choice whether or not we want to be in that group.  So let us investigate what God has said about marriage, so that we may be partakers of the Heavenly reward in that we have obeyed God.

You know, I have said this before, and I now emphasize it again.  Do not risk your soul on what I or any other human may tell you is God’s Will.  The only way to be sure of Heaven is to read God’s Word for yourself, and be sure what the Scriptures say.  Therefore, I urge you to read this article, then to investigate the Scriptures used in your own Bible.  Also, be sure your Bible is a translation, not a paraphrase.

In the beginning, God created only one man.  After that man had named all the animals and had an opportunity to see that none of them were what he needed as his life’s companion, God created one woman. (Genesis 2:18-24)   Please note that there was one man and one woman.  Had God not intended this to be the pattern, surely He would have made His first choice different from the beginning.  Later, in the seventh generation from Adam, through Cain, Lamech broke the divine pattern, and had two wives…the first recorded instance of polygamy. (Genesis 4:19)

Yes, it is true that many of our Biblical “heroes” had multiple wives…Jacob, David and Solomon, to name a few.  If you remember those stories, they all ended in confusion.  Jacob’s wives competed to please him, and his favorite son was sold into slavery.  (Genesis 37:3;  Genesis 37:18-28)  David had rebellion from his own son, Absalom.  (II Samuel 15:1-6)  And the  wives and concubines of Solomon caused him to turn aside and to worship idols. (I Kings 11:1-8)  None of this was pleasing to the Lord.

What about the New Testament?  God has never sanctioned ploygamy.  Jesus, Himself, restored God’s purpose for marriage as being between one man and one woman in Matthew 19:1-6.  This reading clearly shows that marriage is between one man and one woman.  Jesus sanctioned no other arrangement.  Paul, in the same manner, leaves no room for variation in I Corinthians 7:2, I Corinthians 9:5, and Ephesians 5:23.  (If the Lord is head of the church, can He have two or more bodies?  That’s nonsense!)

We can argue and debate  “times and customs” all we want to, but it does not profit us anything if we are arguing against God.  God has set the rule at one man and one woman.  If we deviate from this, regardless of what is the current worldly fashion, we have offended God, and that will lead us, not to Heaven, but to Hell.

I am sure some will not agree with  this article.  Be sure that you are arguing against me and not against the Bible.  Read the Scriptures.  Study on your own.  Then, please, click on the comment section at the end of the article, and give me your take on this subject…let me know if I have mistaken the Lord’s Word.

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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by doc
Filed under: "In" not "of", Authority of Scripture, Obedience, Society