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An Excellent Four Part Blog Post from Christian Worldview Press Against Christian Polygamy

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Awhile ago I came across some blog posts with biblically thorough and well-thought out responses to the Christian polygamy question, including the interaction in the comments between the poster and several vocal pro-polygamists.  The posts date from 2015 and I am quite saddened I didn't see them sooner since the same search terms I had been using then yielded their links now.  Had I seen them earlier it may have been enough to put a stop to the deceptive heresy seeking for a foothold in my marriage.  It appears they are no longer monitored yet still require comment moderation for obvious reasons, so I decided to provide links to the posts and then share my own relevant commentary below.  Who knows, perhaps this will increase traffic to these articles for the author.* Please click the highlighted links to read the original post and comments:  Christian Polygamy? (Part 1)  posted March 31, 2015 this part was originally to be the fourth of the series as i...
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But it was OK in the Old Testament, wasn’t it?

David, and all other men in the Old Testament up to and including the Jews in Jesus’ day who either divorced their wives and took another or added another wife to their already intact relationship would today be guilty of adulterous polygamy under the Atonement.  This was not the case under the Old Covenant, however. Jesus tells the religious leaders that Moses wrote this law allowing divorce because of the hardness of people's hearts.  Who did Jesus say wrote that law? God? No, Moses. Jesus says it was not this way from the beginning. In other words, the separation of spouses joined by God is not God's will for married couples, period.  He says that Moses wrote the law, the inference is with the allowance of God. Why allow such a thing? It seems reasonable to interpret His explanation to mean this was allowed to be written because He knew that people were, to put it plainly, stubborn, sinful jerks and since they lived among heathen lands who practiced this and...
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