Christian Polygamy Discussion

GOD's Blessings be upon you and your family.

In the 1611 KJV Bible it does say that a man, a preacher, can only have one wife. I believe when the Bible says that a man can only have one wife,

1st Timothy 3: 1 - This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1st Timothy 3: 2 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1st Timothy 3: 3 - Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1st Timothy 3: 4 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1st Timothy 3: 5 - (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1st Timothy 3: 6 - Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1st Timothy 3: 7 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1st Timothy 3: 8 - Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1st Timothy 3: 9 – Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1st Timothy 3: 10 – And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being [found] blameless.
1st Timothy 3: 11 – Even so [must their] wives [be] grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1st Timothy 3: 12 – Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1st Timothy 3: 13 – For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
And
Titus 1: 5 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Titus 1: 6 - If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus 1: 7 - For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Titus 1: 8 - But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Titus 1: 9 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Titus 1: 10 - For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Titus 1: 11 - Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Titus 1: 12 - One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus 1: 13 - This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Titus 1: 14 - Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

HE is speaking to the Preachers, Bishops, and Deacons who should be busy teaching HIS WORD, not catering to their wives. I want three. I can’t say the thought of being with 3 girls, although separately, does not thrill my fantasies, but there’s a whole lot more to me than that. And, I will only be with my wives. No one could call it cheating, not my 1st wife who encouraged me to seek out another, no the others who freely and willing give themselves to me.

1Cr 7:32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1Cr 7:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.
1Cr 7:34 There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.
1Cr 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
1Cr 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Polygamy in the 1611 Old King James Bible

Elkanah – had two wives.
1Sa 1:1 - Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
1Sa 1:2 – And he had two wives; the name of the one [was] Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1Sa 1:3 – And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.

Abraham - The first Jewish Christian called by GOD had at least 3 wives.
Gen 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee
1Ch 1:27 Abram; the same [is] Abraham.
Neh 9:7 Thou [art] the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Gen 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Sarah – Abraham’s 1st Wife
Gen 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Gen 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Gen 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Gen 12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that] thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she [was] thy wife?
Gen 13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Gen 16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Gen 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be].
Gen 25:19 And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:
Gen 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Gen 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Gen 20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
Gen 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Gen 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

Hager – Abraham’s 2nd Wife
Gen 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Gen 16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Gen 16:16 And Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 25:12 Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

and Keturah – Abraham’s 3rd Wife
Gen 25:1 - Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.
Gen 25:6 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Jacob - named Israel by GOD had at least 4 wives.
Leah – Jacob’s 1st Wife
Rachael – Jacob’s 2nd Wife
David - GOD's King had at least 9 wives.
Solomon – GOD’s King had 1000.