The replay of office hours this week is broken up into two parts.
In this part 1 Bose asks about a pastor who took a second wife. Pastor Amos says polygamy was God's permissive will rather than his prescriptive will, and that it was already fading by Jesus' time. He leans toward calling it a sin like adultery but wants more study before saying it sends someone to hell. He is clear that it disqualifies a pastor. He points to Jesus' "the two shall become one flesh" as one-and-one, and says Old Covenant rules such as not reducing a second wife's food rations protected vulnerable people. Ark adds that a man who defends multiple wives would likely reject multiple husbands. Hope objects that adultery in the Old Covenant looks one-sided. Pastor Amos agrees and explains that it worked like property rights. He adds that Jesus addressed both husbands and wives, and that divorcing a spouse to marry someone else is adultery in God's eyes.
The conversation widens when Doyin asks about "test marriages." Pastor Amos compares it to Married at First Sight and says people miss the covenant nature of marriage. He contrasts an "I" marriage ("what can I get out of this") with a "we" covenant of serving each other. He argues that living out the biblical roles, such as wives submitting in everything and husbands loving like Christ and treating wives as the weaker vessel, takes someone truly rooted in the Word. Bose says believers should start from the Bible rather than from worldly equality. Micah calls selfishness the root problem, wants no-fault divorce ended, and likens the friction of marriage to sandpaper that smooths character with Christ at the center.
Pastor Amos then notes that Jesus said not everyone should marry, and that trauma can make a God-centered marriage very hard. Deborah closes with cultural views on divorce, statistics on who files, the toll on children, and the lies she believes young women are told. She says only the Word of God closes the gap and that things may get worse before they get better. Pastor Amos adds that they may not get better, and that is where the part ends.
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