The way people think of marriage has changed over time. Adam was a whole person after God created him. Adam was male and female, after God took the female out of him ( by form of a rib which is the only bone that regenerates) then he nor Eve were whole people still. So he joined them back together as man and wife to make them whole again. As a result their off spring has had traits of each parent (male and female) ever since. God determines the dominate sex at birth at His discretion( that is a new thread of its own). So all people are born as whole people but not a complete person. You can get married as many times you want but it will never make you a complete person. We are not a complete person until God is invited in to make us whole, it is then we are a complete body. The church for the sake of symbolism of Jesus and the church has been uniting people to make them whole. usually that 3rd part is the state. Good luck being made whole by inviting the state in. As a result marriage is no longer a symbol of Jesus and His church but has become an idol much like the brazen serpent on a pole that was a cure for snake bites later became an idol (which is idolatry and if mixed in your marriage with God is adultery as Ezekiel 23). Marriage has become an idol to the point its been instilled into our kids that they are not complete until they are many times rushed to find a lifetime mate. There are many whole, complete single people when they have God in the mix.
Paul had problems with an Hymenaeus (god of marriage) and Alexander who had made shipwreck of their faith and were instructing others to follow suit and that the resurrection was in the past and not the future. Paul turned them over to their good friend Satan in hopes of reinstating them.
The problems with plural marriage can quickly overcome any advantages. Besides child abuse and jealousy (James 3:16) and all that that curtails, one that seems to eat at the core is individualism. The group may find themselves working for a common good only to be upset when the group finds themselves working for the common good of the head of the house hold and not the common good of the community. Exactly along the same principles communism rears its ugly head. In which you will have the very rich and the very poor with not much in the middle.
New Harmony, Indiana was founded on socialist principles and failed. It is by the way a very nice little riverside town now.
Last edited by Foxpaw; 06/11/24 05:19 AM.
