Hebrews chapter 11 holds up several people for Christians to emulated, and the list is primarily comprised of people in polygamous relationships, specifically Abraham, Sara, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and David. All the Old Testament A-listers. The other names in the chapters we don't know enough about to know what their marital arrangements were, but this group I named are clearly portrayed as polygamists. And Rahab was a ho. And the writer holds them up to Christians as examples. Why, unless polygamy is not the bad thing we are told? Please don't tell me how these households, especially David's, were problematic because of polygamy. I'm not asking if polygamy is a workable lifestyle. I'm asking how can the Bible hold people up as examples to Christians when they have such a glaring "fault", unless it is not a fault at all?
2007-03-04
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