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But it was OK in the Old Testament, wasn’t it?

David, and all other men in the Old Testament up to and including the Jews in Jesus’ day who either divorced their wives and took another or added another wife to their already intact relationship would today be guilty of adulterous polygamy under the Atonement.  This was not the case under the Old Covenant, however. Jesus tells the religious leaders that Moses wrote this law allowing divorce because of the hardness of people's hearts.  Who did Jesus say wrote that law? God? No, Moses. Jesus says it was not this way from the beginning. In other words, the separation of spouses joined by God is not God's will for married couples, period.  He says that Moses wrote the law, the inference is with the allowance of God. Why allow such a thing? It seems reasonable to interpret His explanation to mean this was allowed to be written because He knew that people were, to put it plainly, stubborn, sinful jerks and since they lived among heathen lands who practiced this and they were
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Polygamy & Remarriage

Polygamy & Remarriage : a study and testimony site about marriage, divorce and remarriage
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1 Corinthians 6:16 Does Sex = Marriage? He which is joined to an harlot is one body?

1 Corinthians 6:16 Does Sex = Marriage? He which is joined to an harlot is one body? : a study and testimony site about marriage, divorce and remarriage
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My Journey to Understanding the “Exception Clause” in Matthew

Someone asked me recently about my understanding of the exception clauses for divorce and remarriage found in Matthew.  A. The Way that Seemed Right... My journey to understanding Matthew 19:9 began a couple years ago as I was reading a bible translation which falsely quoted Jesus as saying “except for ADULTERY”. Or another translation which renders it “except for marital unfaithfulness”. But God even used these blatantly wrong translations to help me begin to consider the possibility that Jesus might not actually be talking about a circumstance where the couple COULD remarry after divorce. Jesus is talking about and to Jews under the Law of Moses. What is the penalty UNDER THAT LAW (and Roman law at that time, I have heard but not studied myself) for a Lawfully wedded woman who commits adultery? DEATH. Don’t have time to go into the OT and search that up? Just turn to John 8 and listen to what the teachers of the Law told Jesus should be done with that woman. So based on that f
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But doesn’t the Bible say that David and Abraham walked perfectly before God or something like that soooo Yay polygamy?

If we study the actual accounts of David’s life he blew it more than with that Bathsheba thing. There was that time he counted the army when God had commanded him not to. And that time he cut off a portion of King Saul’s robe and was then conscience-stricken. And the whole thing with him being a HORRIBLE parent such that most of his children didn’t even attempt to serve the Lord and one even hated him so much he slept with several ofp his wives on the rooftop in front of the nation. Plus God said he was unworthy to build Him a temple because their was too much blood on his hands. Sometimes those hindsight accounts of how wonderful the Old Testament “saints” were have to understood as creative human record-keeping and not factual accounts or even God’s actual opinion of them. The bible is completely true in that it truthfully records events that happened and things that were said but that doesn’t mean that everything faithfully recorded in it is God’s truth on the matter. For example, t
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Esther, David and the Old Testament - Evidence that Remarriage & Polygamy Are “Okay” for Disciples of Jesus?

The question was asked of whether people living after the time of New Testament should use accounts in the Old Testament as models or justification for their personal relationship choices. Specifically of whether Esther’s being as they put it “a second wife” is an example that God condoned remarriage after divorce. It must first be noted that the interpretation that King Xerxes divorced Vashti before eventually marrying Esther is unsupported. Xerxes was polygamous and kept a harem. Vashti was Queen in that she was the Chief Woman if that harem and her children alone would have royal legal right to the throne. When the book of Esther recounts her dismissal as Queen, the inference is that she was sent back to harem to “live as a widow” as we hear both Tamar, Judah’s daughter in law, and several of David’s secondary wives ie. concubines had to do. Vashti was not divorced and set free to remarry, she was banished to the harem to live without hope of sexual contact or children again. “
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Jesus' Treatment of Divorce Judges Polyfidelitous Practices as Adulterous!

I found this link while reviewing some of the references listed in the Christian Worldview Press posts I've previously posted about. It was VERY rewarding to see the revelation Holy Spirit had brought me to via meditation on Mark 10 being clearly explained here .  If I had found this earlier maybe it wouldn't have taken so long for me to see it! Since this was posted in the very early days of webpages, I decided just to copy and paste it in its entirety for you. I didn't write any of this (all emphasis, whether bold or italics, was already in the text) and claim no credit for it, obviously! Click the above link to go directly to the source.
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