While reacting to the choice of a Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, to marry a second wife, several Christian clerics, including a former presidential adviser, Reno Omokri, argued that the bible promotes polygamy.
Reno said that polygamy is only illegal for bishops, overseers, and elders in a post on his verified Facebook page, insisting that "monogamy is a western construct, not a Christian one."
In a counter-post on his official Facebook page, Fr Oluoma maintained that no part of the bible justified polygamy, maintaining that monogamy has been God's ideal style of marriage since creation.
He said, “On polygamy, there’s nowhere the Bible mentions it as a doctrine. There are polygamous marriages in the Bible, but that doesn’t mean the Bible sets it up as the ideal.
“The language of Gen 2:24 is monogamy: “This is why a man (singular) leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife (singular) and the two become one flesh” Our Lord Jesus Christ will repeat the same thing in Matt 19.
“Monogamy is taken as the ideal way of marriage from the language of Gen 2:24: “that is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one”. The language is singular and not plural.
“Then Adam was given one wife by God. If polygamy was the ideal, God would have given Adam more than one wife, the ribs to make more women were not lacking”.
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