This is the exact type of attitude that justifies and perpetuates this myth that it is impossible to be monogamous so go ahead and do what you want. This is paramount to the myth that you don't have to be responsible for yourself anymore (actually the two and interrelated). Kinda sad when major publications can publish this type of stuff and there is no outcry to us being compared to dumb animals with no other thoughts than base instinct driving us.

it's all over the place as tho it's ok.  I'm glad they fixed their problems and were able to move on but the rest of the story isn't finished yet and once you go outside the bond of matrimony looking towards another it does irrepairable damage.  It can be fixed to a point but there will always be a weak point where it was sewn up. 

Yes, there is no cut and dry rule here.  There are way too many variables involved. 

I would't have blamed her if she was not there.  He didn't keep his end of the deal, why should she?   But in the end kudos to her.  She did what I couldn't have done. 

Yes, seems as tho they are trying to tell us something? 

Well you know SC I've always admired the Mormons and their love and faithfulness to their family as a whole.  They are a great example to the world that families matter and are quite successful when they stay together no matter what.   

My blog?  I didn't see them.  All I can see are side links advertising marriage repair. 

I believe both but I don't think the one proves the other. In fact, they have nothing do with each other in the direct way you imply.

G-d is one, He doesn't have a partner (although some religions claim He does). He wants us to have a partner, ideally for life, but it has nothing to do with us being created in His image. Many animals have only one partner and keep that partner for life, if they can. It's not specific to mankind (and, in fact, mankind is a late arriver at the practice).

Traditionally, scripture has not been interpreted as G-d wanting a man to have "one" partner and four or more wives were and are legal in many jurisdictions where law is based on scripture.

In fact, monogamy was a Roman thing and only became part of Christianity as it moved away from Judaism. In Judaism polygamy was legal (and still is in Sephardic jurisdictions). Islam, another religion ultimately based on scripture also still features polygamy. (Islam does limit it to 4, as does Sephardic Judaism now.)

Either way, since monogamy and polygamy are both common in the animal kingdoms, saying that we are different from animals (which is true) does not dictate that we must follow the one or the other. Both are features we would share with certain animals but not with others.

The difference between mankind and animals is that we would practice one or the other not because nature makes us but because our law tells us to.

P.S.: Did you know that the adultery law only applied to women? Man couldn't commit adultery since they could freely add another woman to their list of wives. Hence the need for another commandment "Do not covet your neighbor's wife" to put some limit on this.

Jesus' parents weren't even married.

It was claimed that G-d and Jesus want us to get married, one husband, one wife, monogamous, and that this is clear from the Bible.

It is therefor relevant whether

a) G-d actually says anything like that when He addresses the subject of marriage. (He does not as He allows polygamy and does not insist on monogamy.)

G-d sent His messenger (if Jesus was such) in a way that would support monogamous relations and normal family life. (He did not as, assuming Jesus was in any way special, G-d apparently decided to father a son into an existing family.)

If Jesus wants us to do what he says, and His father supports it, I find it very relevant to know whether Jesus' own family lives that way.

Well it could be Jewish law outside of scripture but it's not based on the Torah.  The Torah is clear, anyone wandering outside of marriage is an adulterer. 

The Jews,  had a low regard for women and they went outside the law to do so.  They interpreted Moses' law or twisted it to belittle the women.  Jesus, on the other hand, did just the opposite.  He treated them kindly and with respect.  That's why he was so loved by the Jewish women.  I'm sure this just ticked the leaders off more than we know.  Jesus was a woman's liberator well before woman's lib got here. 

This is an example of man's tradition usurping the word of God. 

I assume Abraham was an adulterer since he had two wives? And if he hadn't, did he not commit adultery?

The Torah does not say what you say it does.

KFC, that is simply ignorant anti-Semitism and I find it sad to see you repeat it. Jews did and do not have low regard for women. In fact you will find that Sarah is as revered as Abraham, that G-d was said to have a female presence (spiritual, always spiritual!) as well as a male presence, and at the very moment the Jewish festival of Purim reminds us of Esther who saved the Jewish people in Persia. There were female prophets and Jewish law allowed for women to own property thousands of years before any Christian country or law featured such an arrangement.

I find it upsetting that I even have to tell you this.

(BTW there is no Jewish source that says that Jewish women liked Jesus. Jesus' own followers probably wrote that they did. What does that prove?)

It is indeed. But it is the pagan tradition usurping Jewish law.

King David had six wives. King Shlomo had numerous wives.

Perhaps you are confusing the Bible with the Quran?

"Marry women of your choice, two, or three, or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one."

I'm not sure about the New Testament but as far as I know the Quran is the only holy book of the Abrahamic religions to advocate monogamy in any way or form.

I think it is great that you feel so strongly about marriage and monogamy. I do to, in perfect accordance with Ashkenazi Jewish law, if I may so so. But your repeated attempts to make something you happen to believe in part of G-d's plan is, in my opinion, not the correct way to deal with holy scripture.

I also think you should study scripture more, especially commentary written by scholars who understood the Tora in its own language and within the context of Semitic tribal culture. It might also help to study Islam to an extent because it also grew out of the same cultural framework and knowing it will allow you extrapolate better what a given statement in the Bible originally meant.

Also understand that Jewish belief says that with the Tanakh came an oral tradition, which was finally written down in the first millenium CE. Much of the Tora simply doesn't make sense without those explanations. And you will find many, many contradictions in the Bible, some of which are explained in the oral tradition, and some of which are not (yet).

Any saga that combines the legends of as many peoples as existed (and to an extent still exist) in the middle east will be very complicated and can only be understood with study of the languages and cultures of the peoples whose legends they were. Some of it is forever lost, but the Jews and Aramaeans and Arabs are still with us, as is the Christian tradition (which was heavily influenced by completely and utterly non-Semitic culture from Europe). If you study the lot, you can, perhaps, find out where it came from.

I personally believe that a conservative Jewish interpretation is the most correct, with orthodox interpretations being what was regarded strict in the past and now. Islam and Christianity are both changes, with Islam closer to the Semitic roots of the Bible but further (now and at the moment) from the spiritual meaning of it than Christianity.

Ok, but I gave you Moses law.  Go ahead and read it in Hebrew if you wish.  You'll find it reads the same. 

It was made very clear.   Again, I used Moses writing to show you this. 

and that's due to the hardness of man's heart, not on the scriptures. 

Do you know who the first polygamist was? 

yes, and that's why the mess today.  Ishmael is still fighting Isaac to this day.  This would not have happened if Abraham waited on God's promise instead of taking Hagar as his second wife.   His children are still paying the price today.

Have you checked Jewish historian Josephus?  He wrote in the first century. 

Have you read the book of Matthew written especially by a Jew to the Jews?  There's two sources right there. 

Islam came hundreds of years after Christianity.  Christianity was Jewish in nature.  The early church was entierely Jewish.  The whole New Testament (Christian scriptures) was written by Jews with the exception of Luke who was a Gentile Doctor.   The revelation of God both New and Old was entrusted to the Jews.