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If a polygamist gives his life to Christ, and he want to do restitution, does he send some of his wives parking and he keeps the first wife? If he does that is he sure of making heaven?
This talk about restitution, there is a way it does apply, there is a way it does not apply. Somebody who has, let us say three wives now. And he is properly married to all three wives. Certainly he is married to them. And no where in the bible does it support that the man should send any of them parking, because they are properly married wives. What I mean by that is this, he has done all that ought to be done. He has carried the yam, kola, palm-oil, goat or whatever they take to the parents and they have handed the lady over to him. All three of them have gone through that according to the laws of Nigeria . He is married to them and he does not have the right to send any of them parking.
If he sends one parking, then he must explain what are the sins of that person, what are the offences of that person. He can not send any of them away without any particular reason, just saying, I am a Christian now, I can not have you. That person can go to the customary court and from the customary court, go to even higher court and say look the man has no good reason for driving me away. He married me according to the law of the land. The law of our land recognises what is called native law and customs. He is married that way. If we read our bibles very, very well, we are going to understand, there were people in the bible who had more than one wife in the New Testament. That is why Paul wrote and said to Timothy, if anyone would become a bishop or a deacon, he must be the husband of one wife. Because there were some people in the church that had more than one wife. I do not think Paul asked them to send anyone parking.