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How would you classify marital vows to forsake all others?

How would you classify marital vows to forsake all others?

  • Vows made to God between two people which can not be loosed by those people.

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  • Vows which are unlawful or unbiblical and therefore can not be enforced.

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  • Vows which a wife is under no obligation to loose her husband, despite being otherwise submissive.

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  • Vows which a husband is no longer beholden to once he discovers the truth about polygyny.

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  • Vows which comprise a marital covenant that may not be revised in part but must be taken as a whole.

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  • Total voters
    6
The way many of the marital vows are worded are they're done as an exchange. The people aren't exchanging vows with or to God, so far as I can tell, they're exchanging vows between two parties before God, or with God as a witness.
I discovered people will force whatever belief they want into the situation of vows. I'll give you an example of a situation I had to deal with. A man who claims to be a Christian(!) and who was not present when I married my first wife challenged me about the vows I "likely" said. He rebuked me for breaking my vows for a monogamous marriage even though I told him I never said any such thing. His response was to claim I'd made the vow in the context of those who believe in monogamy-only, so it applied to me. He went on to tell multiple people I was committing adultery and did his utmost to persuade my wives to divorce me. I confronted him over his sin of bearing false witness against me and breaking God's commandment which he ignored.

Until people set aside their erroneous presuppositions about monogamy-only and think biblically they won't act righteously. The thing is, we answer to the One who made the rules, not the religious self-righteous clowns. We need to stand blameless before Him, and that includes dealing with any vows we've made.
 
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