Understandably a wife will resent degradation which excludes devoted
love by her one husband for her only, and humiliation which justifies
physical lust for other women when he’s married to her, which is why
Bible believing Christians reject polygamy as does their
Judeo-Christian God. In the Bible God warned his people not to turn to
the ways of surrounding nations or for their king to “multiply wives
for himself, (Deut.17:14) yet, in disobedience, both kings David and Solomon took other wives resulting in severe personal and national repercussions.
In another Bible narrative Abraham, father to the Christian and the Jew, and
claimed also by the Muslim, was a man renowned for his heights of faith. But, he erred from trusting in God's promise to him when he took a second wife becasuse he beleived his first wife Sarah was to old to bear him children.
Due to their lack of trust in God's timing they took matters into their own hands. Sarah suggested according to the pagan custom of the day, that her husband take her Egyptian servant girl Hagar, which he did. Sarah’s Egyptian
maid bore Abraham a son, Ishmael, bringing much anxiety to both wives,
Abraham and, as predicted in the Bible to the surrounding nations then and now.
After Hagar ran away from the insults of Sarah,
into the desert, an Angel not only encouraged the heartbroken Hagar
but gave her a prediction and warning that her offspring would “be a
wild man” and at enmity with everyone. “His hand shall be against every
man, and every man's hand against him.” (Gen 16:11-13)
Certainly the warring aggression and
terrorism of Islam’s wild side has not only effected Israel as
prophesied but also the world at large has experienced its enmity for
the last fourteen hundred years, and a hard lesson is learned about disobedience and a polygamous relationship.
The Lord Jesus reminded his audience
that, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to
divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to
you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
marries another, commits adultery;” (Matt 19: 8-9).
While Prophet Muhammad, founder of
Islam, claimed that Allah sent him to confirm the teachings of the Lord
Jesus, Islam’s holy book the Quran, shows that not to be true in many
instances particularly in those teachings relating to marriage,
polygamy and divorce. In Islam, divorce can be given by a mere, three
time repeated verbal pronouncement over any minor incident. Allah
authorized “temporary” marriages “for three nights” (or more) after
which the husband could desert the wife with no financial obligation,
care or inheritance towards offspring.
GOD'S VIEW OF MARRIAGE, FAMILY, WIDOWS AND CHILDREN
Marriage is indeed so highly esteemed
by God that it’s likened to the relationship between Jesus Christ and
His Bride to be, the Church: those “born again in spirit” through
belief in Jesus’ and His redemptive work on the cross (Eph 5: 30-33. Rev 21:9.John 3: 6-7).
Care for the family and widows was Jesus’ last loving act towards the
mother He left behind who He lovingly put into the care of His disciple
(John 19: 26-27). Jesus' atttude towards children was kindly too. He likens the Kingdom of God to the attitude of little children who wanted to come to Him to be touched. He warned his disciples not to forbid little children from coming to Him, a sober warning to our humanist, secular educational system which forbids children to "come to Jesus". (Luke 18: 15-17)
Honor towards and maintainance of good families, and the upholding of healthy parental relationships towards each other and their children is an important theme in the Bible which the practise of polygamy completely erodes.
MORMON POLYGAMY
But the unbiblical teaching of
polygamy and the practice of plural marriages has been adopted today by
tens of thousands of so-called “Christians” in the Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous sect
of Mormonism. Founder, Joseph Smith, a self professed so-called
prophet of God, proclaimed polygamy to be an everlasting covenant from
God himself. His successor Brigham Young continued the teaching as
“doctrine” for exaltation and the only way women could have salvation.
Polygamy is still enshrined in Mormon
“scripture” Doctrine and Covenants 132 and according to late LDS
Apostle Bruce R. McConkie’s book Mormon Doctrine, “the holy practice
will commence again after the Second Coming and the ushering in of the
millennium.”
Mainstream Mormons, in disobedience
to their founder’s teaching, yet in compliance to the law of the land,
attempt to distance themselves from the polygamists they call
“fundamentalists” who are after all only those who wish to remain
faithful and true to their prophet Joseph Smith’s ruling on plural
marriage. The “fundamentalists” argue they are the true “church” and
those who don’t follow their leader’s teachings are apostate.
The devastating fruit of the
anti-Biblical “gospel” of the Mormon founder’s teaching was recently
headline news when a polygamist compound in Texas was raided and 468
children were taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch. In one of the
largest child protection cases in US history, young girls admitted
there was “no age too young to be married and they wanted to have as
many babies as they could.” Some in the group became pregnant as young
as 13. (ABC News Law and Justice Unit. San Angelo, Texas, April 18.
2008. Never too young to marry, sect girls say. Scott Michels.)
The nephew of FLD Prophet Warren
Jeffs, Brent Jeffs, told ABC’s John Quinones, of the “misery and
heartache of sexual abuse” he personally encountered. He said he was a
victim of rape and molestation at the hands of his uncle and told of
the control of the women and the children “all by fear”.
For heartbreaking stories about betrayal, molestation and polygamy watch our newest available DVD “Lifting the Veil of Polygamy ”
which takes an honest and serious look into the practice of polygamy
amongst tens of thousands of Joseph Smith’s followers across North
America to this day.
Many in this emotionally charged DVD
give personal testimony of how their broken lives and hearts were
healed only through the remedy of the love of Jesus Christ. Former
Muslims give their testimonies of healing in our Fall 2008 DVD ISLAM RISING: A Call To One World Ummah.
See related DVD Products and books on ISLAM:
ISLAM
RISING: A Call To One World Ummah
Islam: What the West Needs to Know
The New Barbarians: Training Children to Kill
How Islam Plans to change the World
Terrorism: The New War on Freedom
Israel, Islam and Armageddon
AND MORMONISM
DNA vs The Book of Mormon
Lifting The Veil of Polygamy
The Lost Book of Abraham
Biblical Expository - The Real Jesus
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