Wonderful point,
@JudahYAHites - on a number of levels.
1) (and not where I think you were going) - "Roman Civil Law" is, IMHO (and that of the Founders) an ABOMINATION. It has a number of related names, in a 'legal sense' - from "law of the city," to "law of the sea" (maritime law), even "private law" as used in the post-Constitutional US. What is it NOT, however, is the "Law of the Land," the English (incorporated in America) Common Law ('Blackstone') - or anything that is compatible with what was once called "constitutional."
2) It is inherently pagan. Antithetical to the Word of YHVH, and all of His Instruction.
Textbooks have been written on the differences, on both points.
And - while we're at it: A particularly ignorant parallel word - but one that should raise eyebrows for that very reason! - is 'judaizing'.
Those who use the term as a perjorative against those who believe the Word of YHVH means what it says (INCLUDING POLYGYNY!!!!) demonstrate a level of ignorance of both history and Scripture:
Yahushua railed against those (including, "but not limited to," the Pharisees) who taught and even mandated that THEIR "law" was equal to, or superior to, the "Law of YHVH," by whatever moniker. (See many examples, but the entire chapters of Matthew 23, and Mark 7)
"By your 'traditions' [so-called 'law',
nomos,
chalacha,
Church doctrine, encyclicals, etc] you have made the Commandments of YHVH of no effect."
To believe, and to thus teach, that we should RETURN (make tshuvah, aka 'repent') to the statutes, judgments, commandments, and Instruction of YHVH, as Written - including ALL that He Wrote about marriage - is not "judaizing" - it is an attempt to "study, to show yourself approved," and "rightly divide" the Word.
The Pharisees failed on that score. And so did the Romanizing Church. And they still do.
