05-11-2022, 09:47 AM
To add a little to why polygamy was big in the OT: that was simply how a lot of women were able to survive, so in a sense polygamy was tolerated as a necessity. To translate it broadly to our modern situation, we could probably pick out something in America that we partake in that would be forbidden in scripture, like usury. Like women and polygamy in the OT, we are "victims" of our situation more than the perpetrator. It's part of how materialist western society is structured. We're not on the hook for it, but our response is. We'll have to use our conviction to see in what ways we can separate ourselves as much as possible from that system.