God brought one wife to Adam. That is the template for marriage. Polygamy came later. After the fall into sin a lot of things happened. God said they ought not have a king, then gave them one anyway, for example, and used the resulting kinship as a type of Christ.
Your line of reasoning falters because it is biblicistic and relativistic at the same time. You don’t understand or apply the relationship between the written and Incarnate Word. You just study ancient texts a lot and offer glib contradictions.
I don't see contradictions. Polygyny came about when there were more women to possess. God formed one woman from Adam's side. There wouldn't ben enough left of Adam had God formed as many women as Solomon "possessed."
You've made up your mind as to what Scriptures will say and make sure it fits into your box. I try to let scripture speak for itself without imposing boxes around it.
Agreed. Even when it is fulfilled and definitely interpret by the Author, you still keep an open mind. You know nothing because you can’t make up your mind.
Yup. An open mind allows God to continue to teach us. Scriptures quite often talk about people with "stiff necks" and "hard hearts". As Lowe & Nida say about πωρόω and its use in the NT: "to cause someone to be completely unwilling to learn and to accept new information" (Mk 6:52; 8:17; Jl 12:40; Ro 11:7; 2C 3:14) and πώρωσις: "stubborn unwillingness to learn" (Mk 3:5; Ro 11:25; Ep 4:18). This is not presented as a good trait for believers.
No, it prevents God from teaching you anything; you still haven't learned and don't know what God has taught you already because you haven't made up your mind as to whether it is true. God says x=4 and you keep as open mind as to whether x=4 or not. Your perpetually open mind is incapable of holding truth in it.
You endlessly quote Scripture but you have no idea what any of it actually means or how to apply it. You just like that it is Scripture. If someone says salvation is by grace, you point to James to posit that it is by works according to Scripture. If someone says murder is bad, you point to all the times God commanded His people to kill others. If someone points out that you don't go by Scripture, you point out that nobody goes by Scripture because we don't stone disobedient children to death. It is all glib nonsense from you, all day every day, but always exhaustively researched and quoted from definitive sources. Scripture to one who thinks like you is all just lines on a page that may or may not have any bearing on anything. There isn't a line of the creeds you wouldn't argue against just to get someone who believes it to be more open-minded about the possibility it is false. You are not a friend of the Christian faith but of doubt of the Christian faith.
To that you'll likely say, "Yup! Its my Myers-Briggs personality at work...[insert seventeen cut and pasted quotes from dictionaries]...because we aren't saved by doctrine but by Jesus!" Then when someone points out that the word "Jesus" has to refer to something with a definition but that you've rejected all such definitions as needlessly limiting, you'll just change the subject.
Why does "Jesus" have to refer to something with a definition? When I was born, I didn't need to know the definitions of "mother" or "birth" or "conception." Such things happened to me without my knowledge or understanding of those words.
When I was born from above through water and the Spirit, I had no definition of "birth" or "baptism" or "God" or "salvation," but salvation happened because God did it even if I didn't know the meaning of any of the words that were said.
You keep making salvation dependent upon something we know or believe. Sin is when we turn in on ourselves - even if it is our knowledge or belief.
John 9 tells the story of blind man who was healed without knowing much about Jesus. All he knew when he was first asked was: "A man called Jesus" (v. 11). Next he says that Jesus is a prophet (v. 17). He knows that he was blind and now he can see. Whether or not Jesus was a sinner didn't matter to him (v. 25). His personal experience is what matter. Not doctrines about Jesus. However, he will raise the question: "If this man wasn't from God, he couldn't have healed him" (v. 33). Often the Pharisees will say, "We know." They were certain. They were wrong. In contrast, the blind man and his parents will both say, "We/I don't know." They were open to learn more.
What I'm sure about is that God has saved me through Jesus; and God gets all the credit. Not my many years of reading and studying and teaching Scriptures; not reading through the
Book of Concord. Not my many years of education.
I used to be much more like you in my thinking. I learned with John the Baptist that my reliance on myself (even my religious knowledge and faith) had to decrease so that Christ might increase.
