(February 6, 2014 at 8:53 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(February 4, 2014 at 10:29 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Divine regulation would imply tacit approval of the practice.
How?
Regulation of a practice by any authority is an indication of acceptance or approval by the authority of the practice. Conservatives are usually the ones making that point whenever anyone talks of legalizing pot or prostitution.
This is especially true if said authority had the power to forbid the practice if it chose to do so. All Yahweh had to say is "one man and one woman" and it would be Yahweh's law. Yahweh certainly wasn't shy about laying down the law on sexual matters in great detail on far more uncommon practices, so why not? Instead, Yahweh chose to regulate the practice of polygamy, including how the children of different wives were to be treated.
David took many wives and the Bible specifically calls him a righteous man who always did the will of Yahweh, save for the matter of Uriah. It doesn't say "save for the matter of Uriah and taking multiple wives."
What evidence can you present that Yahweh disapproved of polygamy, yet somehow allowed it to be common practice by his chosen people?
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