There are quite a few flaws in the arguments, including the obvious initial one -- which is just simply bad logic. ("polygyny was not common". So what?)
More important, however, is the central flaw of ALL of the remaining claims:
They DENY the character of God (YHVH) and His Word!
They deny the central theme of the "Torah and the prophets" -- that He "changes not" (Mal. 3:6, Hebrews 13:8, Psalm 89, etc). They deny the clear warnings of the entire chapter Deuteronomy 13, and Yeshua's own statement that He came not to change "
one yod or tiddle" of His own teaching and instruction, so long as "
heaven and earth" still exist!
It was "marriage" before, but NOW it's adultery? It was a Covenant before, but now it's a sin? Why did He bother to Write anything down for us? Why declare Himself though His servants, the prophets, if the very Foundation was to be 'done away with'? Why did He bother to consistently say "It is Written", if IT DIDN'T MATTER! This capricious, UNtrustworthy, two-faced impersonator sounds a LOT more like a pagan Greek "deity" than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!
If He cannot be trusted to keep His Word, then "he is a liar and the Truth is not in Him". (He is an adulterer, too, of course, for those who bother to read prophets like Jer. 3 and Ezek. 23.
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Those authors clearly preach "another Jesus", that those who KNOW His Word "did not preach"!
Such men, who take it upon THEMSELVES,
just like those He called "Hypocrites!", to "add to" and "subtract from" His Word, change His appointed times, rewrite His ordinances, put THEMSELVES in His place, and "by their traditions", attempt to "make the commandments of YHVH of no effect" are the liars. (Matthew 15:7-9, all of Matthew 23, John 14-16, etc.)
Those who believe that "Jesus" came to "do away with" things that the Bible clearly says He WOULD NOT and
did NOT
have a problem. Which lies do we believe? If he changes and revokes and denies his own promises, his own covenants, his own "rules" about the very thing that represents so clearly the MOST important example of relationship in all His Word - why trust such a god?
"If the Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
I have, on occasion, been observed to be somewhat "zealous" when defending His character...the accusation that the Creator, Redeemer, and King that I serve cannot be trusted...because He lies, He changes His mind, He re-writes His Word, He is no longer the same, "yesterday, today, and tomorrow". Pardon me, but that is pure BS, from the pit of you-know-where.
What if some people who write such things do not believe Him? (Romans 3:3-4)
..."shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged.
The evidence of Scripture, from Bereshiet (the Beginning) to Revelation is
consistent. The "burden of proof" must ALWAYS be placed squarely where it belongs: on those who would deny Him, His character, and His Word - in order to claim that He cannot be trusted, and that what He once called "marriage" He
now somehow calls "adultery".
Why would anyone want to be the "bride" of a husband who changes his own written rules?
The Savior I know, Who said He will have Brides from two houses, twelve tribes, seven churches, and multiple branches (
netzir), is the One in Whom I trust
Blessings,
Mark
