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I do not claim that having more than one wife was Godly. It is clear from Scriptures that a male is permitted only one female as wife and a female only one and the same male as husband. Many unsavoury things were allowed by God, put up with, due to circumstances, hence the coming together of them under the Mosaic Laws, which are human laws allowed by God since the people of the time could not live in righteousness under God's holy laws: Stoning, eye for an eye, taking your dead brothers wife as your own wife, close relationshion marraige, not allowing marraige outside of your tribe, killing a woman who committed adultery but not the man…etc. Other things we would now call superstition, like the 'Scapegoat', offering the blood of an animal as a sin offering, washing in water to appease 'God'…
A man and woman were regarded as married if they had sex with each other, simple as that. Obviously, they denied this when it came to the harlot. This is why Jesus told the Samaraian woman that she had many husbands. But, all the same, woman very rarely had any status of inheritence, so if they did not have a male relative she was destitute and no one would take her up. So to alleviate this marraige was allowed to a man who had the warewithall to look after her. This did not mean he had to have sex with her, just that she looked to that man for security and family grouping, hence concubines evolved for the very rich and powerful..does anyone imagine Solomon slept with all his wives…? Nay, many 'knew no man to their dying day'
Davidbfun has a massive hangup, or hangdown, about women…Davidbfun, i would advise you to drop this, as mentioned before, and find something more healthy to discourse about.
No one has any issues about women in thd bible nor whether jesus or god is part male or female or if the holy spirit is a 'she'.I am afraid to ask you why you even broaching this non-topic, in almost every one of your posts.
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