Moderator note (8/28, 2:45pm CDT):
Apparently people aren't reading the warning mid-thread, so I have placed this in the original post. Please deal only with the original post, made here, and not the question of the sinfulness of polygamy, which is well established in Scripture and the Confessional standards of this board. Any further posts that argues that polygamy is not sinful or posts that are simply not answering the original question will be deleted.
How would you respond to a young person (believes in God, but not a reformed Christian) who finds the polygamy of the OT patriarchs and kings an enormous stumbling-block?
I say: "It may be in the Bible, but it doesn't follow that we are supposed to do the same. Also, the NT confims the Creation ordinance of one man, one woman."
She replies: "but Abraham and Jacob and all of them, even David the man after God's own heart, were polygamous and IT'S NEVER REPRESENTED AS SINFUL OF THEM."
What would be your answer?
Apparently people aren't reading the warning mid-thread, so I have placed this in the original post. Please deal only with the original post, made here, and not the question of the sinfulness of polygamy, which is well established in Scripture and the Confessional standards of this board. Any further posts that argues that polygamy is not sinful or posts that are simply not answering the original question will be deleted.
How would you respond to a young person (believes in God, but not a reformed Christian) who finds the polygamy of the OT patriarchs and kings an enormous stumbling-block?
I say: "It may be in the Bible, but it doesn't follow that we are supposed to do the same. Also, the NT confims the Creation ordinance of one man, one woman."
She replies: "but Abraham and Jacob and all of them, even David the man after God's own heart, were polygamous and IT'S NEVER REPRESENTED AS SINFUL OF THEM."
What would be your answer?
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