Many Christian leaders will hold their pious hands together and declare that polygyny was not God's original intention.

Thus we should uphold God's original intention and maintain the Catholic dogma of monogamy.

This woeful position proves how far tradition has to go to argue against the Word of God which provides for polygyny.

We read in Genesis 2 the following words of the Lord;
Gen 2:21  And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh underneath.
Gen 2:22  And Jehovah God made the rib (which He had taken from the man) into a woman. And He brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man.
Gen 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.

Taking a huge leap of presumption, they then claim that one man and one woman was “God’s original intention” and we should therefore be monogamous.

The Lord did not command we stop using our brains when we go to church. We must not always confuse the pulpit with the truth no matter how large our congregation and how qualified our preacher. He/she is not the Word of God in place of the Bible, we are to “Study earnestly to present (ourselves} approved to God, .. (workers) that do not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth” 2Tim.2:15.

Let us explore this woeful argument that it was God’s original intention that we should all be monogamous.

First of all we do not have the mind of God in the beginning and to assume this is the case is a wonderful step of guesswork, it sounds good but is it the case? Let us follow the same assumptive thinking and draw similar conclusions.

Adam and Eve were placed in a garden which must have been God’s original intention using the same childish arguing. Let us therefore find the Garden and live in it; ridiculous right? Is it God's original intention that every believer will live in the restored Paradise on the earth? No.

Let us return to Genesis 2, the passage abused so much by the monogamy only  assumers and look at another verse there;
Gen 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh.
Gen 2:25  And they were both naked, the man and his wife; and they were not ashamed.

If we are to remain monogamy only because it was God's original intention, then using this same terrible reasoning, let us attend our churches stripped naked since it is obvious God’s original intention was that people should so be. We are remaining monogamous because it was God’s original intention, then why not totally naked as well?

At this juncture, we can hear the monogamy only camp jumping and flailing their arms about objecting that God changed things; after “the fall” He clothed Adam and Eve with coats of skins. How astute! And we would also observe that after “the fall”, God commanded and blessed many polygynous marriages. After “the fall”, God defined what was offensive to Him and polygyny certainly is not offensive to God. God had two wives Himself.

Yes it is true, the Lord does not change as to character and virtue, (Mal.3:6, Hebs.1:12, 13:8), but he does change His dealing with people as the Old and New Covenant clearly show.

When Cain murdered his brother Abel the Lord walked in and dealt with the sin.  When Lamech took more than one wife the Lord made no declaration against him. Not only so, the Lord made laws for polygyny, featured polygyny in the redemption story by commanding polygyny as we have shown on this website. We are not to assume that since there was only one man and one woman in the garden that this is how it must be now when God clearly changed things in regards to marriage.

Adam and Eve were naked but later clothed.

God placed Adam and eve in the Garden but later He evicted them and scattered people over the face of the earth.

Let us follow the same "God's original intention" logic and consider the Tree of Life. Are we to reason that since God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden with access to the Tree of Life that ultimately life for the believer will be made possible by this tree? Or would we rather consider that after the fall, many Lambs were slain pointing to Christ the true Lamb of God in and through whom we of faith have eternal life.

God made Eve for Adam in a very unique place and circumstance  but later struck a man dead for not practicing levirate polygyny (Gen.38:8-10). Onan displeased the Lord because he did not impregnate his dead brother’s wife. This took place before the Lord made those levirate laws (Deut.25:5-10). If monogamy was God's original intention, He certainly moved very severely against Onan in contradiction to His own original intention. But things changed after the fall.

The Lord commanded, blessed and used many polygynous families declaring clearly that polygyny was as valid to Him as monogamy.

I guess if monogamy was “God’s original intention” there is no place for anyone to be single. Those who commit their lives to the Lord as single people are out of step with this stupid “God’s original intention” reasoning.

I appeal to all Christians to stop the rot. Refuse to accept the stupid arguments being presented no matter who it is that presents them.

No matter how uncomfortable we might feel, we are to stand on God’s Word, not the preacher’s words, not the traditions of men, not the opinion of the majority. I think we can all agree that the Bible is full of examples where the majority did not get it right. If numbers are important to us then we are more than likely way outside the Word of Truth.

Monogamy was not God’s original intention; marriage was God’s purpose for men and women.

Please throw the “God’s original intention” argument in the garbage bin where it belongs.

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