I have no problem agreeing to disagree. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion when there is no direct reference to a topic. I have drawn an opinion from context clues, and you have drawn a different opinion. So be it. Do you believe God sees polygamy as immoral today?
Opinion is too weak of a word because we both are going by evidence. So I see our views as competing theories. Of course, yours is the more mainstream Christian one. I'd like another person's perspective to weigh in or we could go deeper into a specific piece of evidence and reasoning if you or anyone else is up to it!
I believe it is moral today. The only thing that has changed is the cultural perception and the laws stemming from that. It is still practiced in some Middle Eastern countries, and interestingly, some Mormon families in the Midwest US (Utah, Colorado, and Arizona) still practice it.
Oh come on... His success was in spite of God , but I don't see the relevance with my point about Jacob's polygamous marriage. God acted in the latter case.
The same principle applies. Just because God allows things to happen doesn’t mean He endorses those actions. Jacob had two wives and two concubines that gave him 12 sons. I have a pastor friend who has one wife and they have 12 children (11 boys 1 girl). Had Jacob remained monogamous God could have given him the same 12 sons. Also, my friend does not have to deal with contentious wives. Solomon had hundreds of wives and ended up absolutely miserable.
