Yet another assault from Academia.edu

[Daniel DeLuca]

Just reading through the Abstract and the Introduction got my blood boiling: Here is my response:




You don't really believe in full equality for women, unless you believe they ought to be allowed to go topless. You neglected to mention that there are born again Christians who have read their Bibles, who also embrace polygyny. Monogamy is NOT the best way to ensure paternity and joint parental investment in children, not by a long stretch, for it is not true monogamy, when parents can divorce and remarry! Do away with that, and you may have some respectability in your argument. Indeed it was the Greco Roman culture that infiltrated Christianity and perveted it to forbid marriage, which is precisely what monogamy does, for those women who are under reproach (Isaiah 4:1). It is extremely hypocritical to condemn polygyny, which God NEVER condemned in Scripture, while promoting homosexuality, which God clearly forbid, at least for men, to engage in. That is my take on just the first two pages of that piece of garbage you wrote which conflates polygyny with other forms of polygamy, which I have zero interest in defending.

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Often when we find ourselves in arguments with individuals on forums such as YouTube comments, they are just parrotting clowns in Academia such as Witte here.

Here is his bio:

John Witte Jr. | Emory University School of Law | Atlanta, GA

John Witte, Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law.

law.emory.edu

 

[Bartato]

I think Witte's work is inadvertently helpful to our cause. He shows that the case for monogamy over polygyny really is a Greco Roman cultural argument, not a Biblical/Christian one.

 

[Bartato]

I have often been amazed at how ignorant these "well educated scholars" are when it comes to issues of marriage/patriarchy/polygamy in the Bible.

Andreas Kostenberger's book was shockingly weak on the topic.

"God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation"

With a title like that, I had higher expectations.

 

[Asforme&myhouse]

I have often been amazed at how ignorant these "well educated scholars" are when it comes to issues of marriage/patriarchy/polygamy in the Bible.

Andreas Kostenberger's book was shockingly weak on the topic.

"God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation"

With a title like that, I had higher expectations.

Cut them a little slack, man. They are like a public defender for an accused bank robber who forgot to wear a mask, was caught on camera, cut himself and bled at the scene and ran into the responding officer while trying to make his escape… I mean almost respect their dedication to the lie. I mean I really don’t, but I’m sure you get my point.

 

[OttoM]

Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.

Genesis 15:16
After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.

Perhaps western civilization is following a similar course to the Amorites. Today homosexuals have a higher seat inside the churches than men with multiple wives (they actually have no seat in most churches). The fruit of that comes from forsaking God's instructions, and calling evil good and good evil.

 

[Daniel DeLuca]

Cut them a little slack, man. They are like a public defender for an accused bank robber who forgot to wear a mask, was caught on camera, cut himself and bled at the scene and ran into the responding officer while trying to make his escape… I mean almost respect their dedication to the lie. I mean I really don’t, but I’m sure you get my point.