there are reasons of divorce a man should not be a preacher . verbal abuse to the spouse . adultery especially if he will not rule over his own household.. i am more than well aware of what polygamy is. if divorce happened before grace the .i fail to see the accountability. how ever there are still circumstances that they should not preach
so is it ok to have been married several times ?
There are NO Biblical reasons. What you just posted is YOU OPINION of what YOU think and it is NOT supported by the Scriptures which I posted for you to read.
You said.........
"if divorce happened before grace the .i fail to see the accountability".
That makes NO sense and I have no idea what you mean so I can not respond to it.
The point is.........The Bible does not say that a "divorced" man can not be a Pastor.
You would think that because many of the Old Testament men that you had read about had more than one wife you would understand why God placed 1 Timothy 3:1-3 in the Bible.
Some of the polygamists in the Old Testament mentioned by name are Lamech, in Gen 4:19, who is the first polygamist, and then there were Jacob, Esau, Elkanah, Ashur, Shaharaim, and many of the kings, like David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Ahab, Jehoram, Joash, and Jehoiachin, and Belshazzar. Even people who know very little Bible know that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
What the Bible DOES say is that The two cases in which God permits divorce are fornication (Matt 19:9) and desertion (1 Cor 7:15). In those two cases, the marriage can be dissolved and the spouse is free to remarry (1 Cor 7:28) without living in adultery.
So when you come across a verse in the New Testament that tells you a bishop can only have one wife, you’re going to think that the Bible means exactly what it says. The man can’t be a polygamist, though his contemporaries in other religions may be and though many of the Jewish fathers were.
The thought that 1 Tim 3:2 and Tit 1:6 could be referring to a preacher who had been divorced and remarried wouldn’t even cross your mind, unless somebody had given you that thought. You would remember that a man and woman who are divorced are no longer husband and wife [Hos 2:2]. Therefore, you wouldn’t even consider that Paul was referring to a pastor who had been remarried after a scriptural divorce. You would know from the Bible that he still only has one wife.
To simplify this, you can “do the math” as the saying goes. When a man is married, he has one wife. When he is divorced, he has no wife. When he remarries, he has one wife. One plus zero equals one, not two.
Now.....how did YOU come to YOUR conclusion?????? The only way YOU could come to YOUR conclusion is to force the Bible to say something it doesn’t say. Or else someone taught YOU that 1 Tim 3:2 and Tit 1:6 really meant “not divorced and remarried” when it said “the husband of one wife.”