Part 3 - Responding to ‪@ReformationRedPill "Does Scripture TRULY forbid polygamy"

Reformation Red Pill’s final and strongest-sounding claim is theological: plural marriage “does violence to the gospel” because Christ has one bride. This part answers that Scripture pictures one head with many members — one body, one flock, one tree with many branches — which is exactly the shape of a man with several wives, and that God Himself is the husband of two, Israel and Judah. The “gospel violence” charge actually fits enforced monogamy, which says the Head may take in no one else.

This is Part 3 of a 3-part response — go back to Part 1 and Part 2.

The argument answered

• The invented “sub-creational sin” reused, and the claim that God handled polygyny “with kid gloves” — answered by a God who put men to death for wasting seed and women to death for two husbands; that is not kid gloves.
• The progressive-revelation argument that polygyny was always wrong and slowly phased out — refuted by Genesis 26:5 (Abraham kept God’s commandments while having a wife and concubines) and Exodus 21:10, with no later law ever forbidding it.
• Matthew 5:17 and Deuteronomy 4:2: Christ, under the law, could not abolish or add to it, so He did not (and could not) quietly criminalize plural marriage.
• “Christ has one bride”: nowhere does Scripture say only one; Jeremiah 31’s new covenant is with two houses, and God in Ezekiel 23 calls Aholah and Aholibah “mine.”
• The one-body, many-members imagery — the olive tree (Romans 11), the flock with grafted branches (John 10:16), members of Christ (1 Corinthians 6) — all picture one head over many, which fits Jacob and his wives, not monogamy-only.
• The “argument from silence” on marriage instructions cuts the other way: Paul gives no command for dissolving the polygynous households the apostles met, because nothing changed.
• “Adam and Eve, the archetypal couple”: a phrase never in Scripture, and a marriage that led all into sin — Abraham and Sarah, held up as models, were a plural household.

Scriptures examined

• Genesis 26:5 — Abraham kept God’s charge, commandments, statutes, laws
• Exodus 21:10; Deuteronomy 4:2; Matthew 5:17 — the law unrepealed and unabolished
• Jeremiah 31:31–33 — the new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah
• Ezekiel 23 — Aholah and Aholibah, God’s two wives
• Matthew 25:1–12 — one bridegroom, ten virgins
• 2 Corinthians 11:2 — “you” (plural) betrothed to one husband
• 1 Corinthians 6:15–17 — your bodies are members of Christ; one flesh, one spirit
• Romans 11; John 10:16 — one tree, one flock with many branches and sheep
• Isaiah 4:1 — seven women take hold of one man, their reproach removed

Why it matters

To forbid marriage is named in Scripture as a doctrine of demons. The gospel picture of one Head and many members does not condemn plural marriage; read honestly, it commends it — and widows and the unmarried are the ones left without cover when men teach otherwise.