Since you couched your question in terms of "Christian polygamy" then the answer is no - regardless of my personal feelings (though for the record, I am opposed).
To be Christian, you must be living in harmony with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus restated his father’s words back in the garden of Eden when he said in Matthew 19: 4-6: 4 In reply he said: “Did YOU not read that he who created them from [the] beginning made them male and female 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has yoked together let no man put apart.”
The apostle Paul reiterated that teaching in Ephesians 5:28-31: 28 In this way husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself, 29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it, as the Christ also does the congregation, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave [his] father and [his] mother and he will stick to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
To even hold privileges in the congregation the requirement was that you must have only one wife as shown in 1 Timothy 3:2: 2 The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife . . .
Those who practice polygamy often justify it by referring to what is recorded in the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament). But it was clearly not God’s original purpose when he created Adam and gave him just one wife, Eve, as said in Genesis 2:24: That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.”
The practice of polygamy did not originate with God. The first mention of it was when Lamech, a descendant of Cain, took two wives. But when the flood of Noah’s day came, Noah and his three sons only had one wife each. The polygamists were all killed in the flood.
Centuries later, when God chose the Israelites as his people, the practice already existed among them – though the more common practice was only one wife. He did not break up families at that time, but instead regulated it. Clearly it was only temporary because the formation of the Christian congregation ended it. At that time, the standard of marriage returned to what he had instituted in the beginning.
Last edited by Hezzer; 04-18-2008 at 12:49 PM.
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