Reply to TimcastIRL on the Polygamy Debate
A point-by-point reply to TimcastIRL and Andrew Wilson mocking Pastor Rich Tidwell for taking a second wife. The objection that biblical polygyny is immoral is tested against Torah, the patriarchs, and YAH Himself.
When Pastor Rich Tidwell publicly took a second wife, TimcastIRL, Andrew Wilson, and the panel reacted with outrage and ridicule rather than Scripture. This response answers them line by line, exposes the straw man that biblical polygyny rests on a mere because-they-did-it argument, and shows that the real charge of immorality has no footing in the law of YAH. The standard for morality is the Torah, not Roman church tradition.
What this video covers
- Why the panel argues from emotion, mockery, and church tradition instead of any command of Scripture forbidding plural marriage
- The difference between the lawful polygyny of the patriarchs and the degeneracy of the modern world, which critics wrongly lump together
- How enforced monogamy paired with no penalties for adultery or unchastity actually corrodes patriarchy and breeds feminism
- Why the demographic claim that polygyny locks men out of marriage fails against the data
- The charge that polygamists are cult leaders answered by the fact that Messiah Himself is the bridegroom of many
- Why Matthew 5:17-20 means Messiah did not abolish the marriage laws, so no later passage can be read to overturn them
Scriptures examined
- Exodus 21:10 — provision for a man who takes another wife assumes its lawfulness
- Deuteronomy 21:15-17 — instructions for a man with two wives
- Deuteronomy 25:5 — levirate duty with no exemption for a married brother
- Ruth 4:11 — a blessing invoking Rachel and Leah, who built the house of Israel
- 2 Chronicles 24:2-4 — Joash given two wives by the priest and called right in YAH's sight
- Ezekiel 23 — YAH describes Himself as husband of two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah
- Matthew 25:1-13 — the bridegroom and the ten virgins
- Matthew 5:17-20 — not the smallest stroke of the law passes away
Why it matters
To call the patriarchs immoral is to disparage Abraham and blaspheme the Father who describes Himself as a polygynous husband. Marriage is to be honored, including a man's second wife, not reduced to a punchline.
