Topic: Can Christian men marry more than one wife? - page 3. (Read 2188 times)

There are many religions that are considered to be Christians but one thing is for sure all Christian sects and religions does not allow an individual to marry one wife. Marrying more than wife is already considered adultery and it is a taboo. If you are looking forward to marry more than wife then that is existing in Islamic tradition given that you can love fairly and equally your wives.

Just remember this one thing. Old Testament Israel was required to have more than one wife at times.

If a man's brother died and the brother had no children, it was a law/rule for the man to marry his brother's widow, to produce offspring for his dead brother. In fact, this might have been the generally-accepted practice throughout a good portion of the world back when the laws were given by Moses to Israel.

Now, imagine that a man in Ancient Israel had 5 brothers who were all married, but none of them had children. The 5 brothers went to war, and they were all killed. Almost instantly the man had 5 wives in addition to his own if he had one.

Jump ahead to the writing of the New Testament. If any of the N.T. writers weren't Jewish, they had guidance in their writing from people of Israel. In other words, they were all still acting in the laws of the Old Testament, because they were learning about the freedom given by Christ.

In 70AD the Romans came and destroy Jerusalem. How many times might an Israel man have lost his brothers in this Rome/Israel fight, that he might have had to take his brothers' wives to raise up children for his brothers?

The law/rule of marrying the childless wives of your dead brothers never stopped being a law/rule for believers. Rather, it became a custom to not obey this law/rule. The evidence that the law remained active - and is essentially active among Christians today - is in the New Testament books of 1 Timothy and Titus:

1 Timothy 3:12:
Titus 1:6:
If the law/rule of marrying your dead brother's wife had not been part of the life of the early Christian church, Paul (who wrote the above verses) would not have had to make that distinction for Timothy and Titus. So we see by what Paul wrote, that one wife is better, but more than one is understood as having been allowed... and even advocated in some circumstances.

There are only few places where polygamy is accepted. Good luck .
Indeed so I don't think any good reason for you to do this. Besides if you are really a true Christian or a committed person on whatever religion (aside from Islam since they're allowed to have more than one wife) you belongs, you will not do it in the first place because you know that it was strictly prohibited.

I don't remember the actual laws mentioned in the Bible but it seems that the old fathers took multiple wives. Aaand we've seen how well that went for them with all the drama, ranging from stealing blessings to trading in narcotics. 

So I think that even if it's allowed, it would be mentally and economically preferable to stay monogamous and pull all the resources into rearing a single set of kids that wouldn't be backstabbing each other at the slightest provocation.


Women care about status in comparison to other women. That's why they bad-mouth men that broke up with them, they don't want any other women gaining access to resources/status that man provides. Putting 4 of them in the same house is recipe for drama.


Hard to resist that sweet, sweet alimony money that can be spent while going back to the dating pool.

Any Christian people can move to a place where there is no law against more than one wife, and marry more. Just remember. People that do this will have more trouble in their lives than one-to-one.

Easy to say but that's not so simple. You should still conform on the Constitutional laws of course . You can't just act like an alpha male and fuck whoever you want. It's our obligation to be humane.

No they can't, Christian mean you already know what God says. You know the rules and commandments. "Do not cheat". Wherein every christians are not excempted to the rules. And i don't know what you're gonna do once your wife knows that you are cheating p😂

Well... If this is a real issue, and the Church is not helping you, then you can just fuck them all and convert to another religion. That shouldn't be a problem because you'll still be worshiping the same monotheistic God. The God really doesn't care how you call him and how you do your worship, as long as you consider him as The One and The Ommipotent. God doesn't care about clerics, corrupt lawmakers as well as their thoughts.

Moses made the law that a man could give his wife divorce paperwork, and be divorced from her. That simple.

Back then, men didn't divorce their wives because they loved them, and because they loved their children. Men and women knew their humble position in life.

Jesus clarified that at the beginning, there was no divorce recognized. Then why did Moses write it as a law, and one that could be used so easily? Jesus tells us that it was because some of the people just wouldn't live their lives peacefully with the spouse they married. Some of them wanted divorce, and they were going to do it no matter what. So, Moses's law was simply to keep peace.

Today we divorce our spouses right and left. The laws have changed enough that the lawyers make money out of the divorces.

Yes! Annulment and/or divorce was there, though the price and processes will undertaken is such a pain in our ass but still it could be a last resort for settling broken relationships.However, some countries are against it especially Roman Catholic countries like us. They strongly not recognized such thing thus law makers are hindered to pass the bill. As far as I know the Church doesn't have any agenda to the State but why they're doing it? Well, for me it's a blessing in disguise anyways .

There are ways to break marriage without actually committing a sin, from the Church's point of view. That's why annulment process is possible, though it may be costly to prove that your marriage was made in a wrong way.

Orthodoxy is way more strict on that, until recent time it was almost impossible to break a marriage without being banned from church. But times are changing, and Orthodox Church has introduced the same procedures as well.

Modern attempts to establish poligamy are opposed not because of religion or something like that. It's because any children in such a family have a very little chance to grow into something useful for the society.
Polygamy is a sign of either mental disorder or pure social education. There are no other options.

If that's the case then for me it's immoral maybe not from the eyes of human but definitely in the eyes of God. Actually, the moment you broke your marriage is already a huge sin, what more if you not only left yout partner but also find a substitute for her. What such a disgrace.

Polygamy isn't allowed, but there are people who have got more than one wife. In my locality if someone marries second wife without getting proper divorce from the first wife, then he will be kept away from the church activities. Once after making everything legal, then only they were given rights to be a part of the church community.

The Believer’s Freedom

1 Corinthians 10:23:

I think that this is not true.
Polygamy is not allowed in Christianity. This is a characteristic of Islam and not Christianity. And one of the biggest differences of those two religions.

But it is in the ten commandments that men should not commit adultery, meaning men can only have one wife, having two is a mortal sin. Anyway, even in reality, wife won't allow that their husbands have two wives.

Here in our country, we don't allow divorce yet. It is not legal here unless there is a big problem between coupls that they should void their marriage.

There's no mentioned in the bible that Christian can have more than one wife or it is promoting polygamy, rather it is teaching loyalty and honesty to his wife, I am not fond of reading the bible, but most of the Christians church or sects teaches loyalty to one wife only
but since some Christian countries already have divorced, they can marry more than once.

It makes sense for me. Now I realized that 'can' and 'may' got a big difference. I guess I should recap my English basics .
Assuming that there's no specific line which tells that polygamy is illegal, I think it considerably fall under one of the 10 commandments: "Thou shall not commit adultery". It was not directly said but if you will analyze they're the same. However, I'm not a religious person and I also don't read Bible or any holy scriptures so my opinion might be wrong.

So the question is if Christian men "can" marry more than one wife. For me, yes, they can. "Can" somehow means "able" or "capable". And i think all of us are capable of marrying more than one man or woman. I mean, it's a choice. But if the question would be if Christian men "may" marry more than one wife, then for me, it's a no.

You have said that no Bible verse is against polygamy. But I don't think there is also a Bible verse that is pro polygamy. I haven't read the bible yet from cover to cover. But Christianity is unlike Islam where husbands are allowed to have many wives. So in order to preserve the sanctity and harmony of matrimony, then I think it would be better if Christian men have only one wife.