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Plural marriage and the Bible/No biblical mandate for plural marriage
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Criticism
While sometimes forced to admit that some Old Testament figures practiced polygamy, critics insist that there was no biblical mandate or command to practice plural marriage.
Source(s) of the criticism
- Richard Abanes, Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism (Harvest House Publishers: 2005). 244. ( Index of claims )
Response
This claim is false; levirate marriage was mandated by the law of Moses (Deuteronomy 25:5-6).
Even if true, this claim is immaterial. God did not condemn the practice of plural marriage in the Bible. If it was everywhere and always forbidden, God could and would have done so. Early Christian authors understood this.
Endnotes
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