Actually from an Anthropologist point of view.
Polygamy is Multiple Spouses.
Polyandry - more than one husband
Polygyny - more than one wife.
Polyamory - group marriage.
Group marriage? :confused:
I'm trying to figure this one out, it is like this?:
Jane, Mary, Joe and John all get married to each other. So Jane is married to Joe and John, Mary is also married to Joe and John, Joe is married to Jane and Mary, and John is also married to Jane and Mary.
Is that how it works?
Re: "Is that how it works?"
Current (and ancient) perversion includes Jane and Mary getting married to each other and Joe and John getting married to each other. Sounds like Anthropologists would have to devise terms for such perversuions.....until something more twisted comes along and is tolerated.
Jude 1:5...
" Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities."
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edited to include scripture:
Genesis 2:24...
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
Here's the principle: one boy + one girl = one flesh.
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Actually the principle is not that but commitment, loyalty, love, faithfulness, justice, equality between two adults. The Hebrew word for cleave was also used to describe how Ruth and Naomi stuck together and their words to each other have been used to define what marriage is supposed to mean in that they have been enshrined in the traditional marriage vows.
Hi Seraphim.
Re: "...equality between two adults."
Scripture does not indicate two adults. Scripture indicates male and female and how they unite to become one flesh. Your interpretation (re: two adults), imo, interferes with accurate perception of principle. Why? Because the scripture is specific; stating "man" and "wife"(woman).
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I was just defining a common misconception of the definition of polygamy.
Hi Seraphim.
Re: "...equality between two adults."
Scripture does not indicate two adults. Scripture indicates male and female and how they unite to become one flesh. Your interpretation (re: two adults), imo, interferes with accurate perception of principle. Why? Because the scripture is specific; stating "man" and "wife"(woman).
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There are two principles in this scripture. Commitment and one plus one. Your right in that it is specifically directed to men and women. thats why Jews thought that not getting married was not very Jewish. As having children was part of the context of the verse in question, not having children was thought to be a curse from God. Some might argue that not getting married, or being married and choosing to not have children is against Gods will and such has been argued before. Fortunately if ones looks for the principles behind specific instructions directed in and at a specific context it can avoid needless condemnation of innocent people. Hence Paul can rightly say in the new testament era that staying single can be according to Gods will. Jesus can also tell us that barren women were not cursed of God.
I was just defining a common misconception of the definition of polygamy.
Glad you did. Some people are a bit sensitive when it comes to these topics.