Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church
and gave Himself for it.
Eph 5:25
This refutation falls in the “always bad
consequences of polygamy” category. The first recorded polygamist was
Lamech;
Gen 4:19
And Lamech took two wives to himself. The name of the first one was Adah,
and the name of the other was Zillah.
Gen. 4:23-24
And Lamech said to his
wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lamech, listen to my
speech. For I have killed a man because of my wound, and a young man
because of my hurt. For Cain is avenged seven times, and Lamech
seventy-seven times.
Lamech was in the line of Cain and a
murderer both of these seen as bad omens and this blanket of reflected
wickedness is thrown over all polygamists. Cain, the first murderer, was
monogamist and a farmer;
Gen 4:1-2
And
Adam knew Eve his wife. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I
have gotten a man from Jehovah. And she bore again, his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Should we
thus blanket all monogamist farmers as potential murderers? The first
murderer was a man, are all men covered with this shadow? Perhaps
country women should avoid polygamous farming men because they have a
triple potency to murder.
All this reasoning is outside the Word of God. At no point does the Word
judge Lamech for having two wives, only an observation is made, perhaps
he was not the first.
Good and bad people marry with good and
bad consequences. Polygamy makes marriage not murderers.
