In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...
Quoted message said:There is no other
religious book that instructs men to have only one wife. In none of
the other religious scriptures, whether it be the Vedas, the Ramayan,
the Mahabharat, the Geeta, the Talmud or the Bible does one find a
restriction on the number of wives. According to these scriptures one
can marry as many as one wishes.
I beg to differ:
"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant,
sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;"
- 1 Timothy 3:2 (The Bible)
"Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their
children and their own houses well."
- 1 Timothy 3:12, KJV (The Bible)
"...ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be
blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused
of riot or unruly."
- Titus 1:5-6 (The Bible)
"Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old,
having been the wife of one man."
- 1 Timothy 5:9 (the Bible)
Notice "Wife" and not "Wives" here:
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
- Genesis 2:24 (The Bible)