So, disclaimer. I would have presumed there was already a review for this book somewhere on this site, but after a few searches I've been surprisingly unable to find it. Maybe it's there (I did say in my intro I'm a little bit of a ditz, lol), but since I didn't see it I'm going to go ahead and post a review.
Does the Bible Condone Polygamy,
by J. A. Farmer (which I'm pretty sure is a pseudonym)
ISBN 978-0995400344
Books pointing out the examples of blessed polygynists in the Bible and the absence of any condemnation thereof are so common that they must come from South America, because there's a brazillion of them out there.
(rimshot) ...Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
Anyway...
What I like about this one is that it goes to incredible lengths to point out the number of times God made His moral standards on things such as incest and adultery explicitly plain before Moses (as early as Genesis) and after Moses (in Christ's teachings). This is then used as leverage of the point "if God had no qualms about making His moral standards plain even before the Law was given, how then can you say He was 'only tolerating polygyny because people didn't know any better?' He proved He had no problem making people know better, even at the cost of lives, if He found something abhorrent."
It also goes DEEP into the idolatrous roots of the idea of mandated monogamy, tying threads between Goddess-worshipping regimes such as the Grecian worship of Hera (or Juno as the Romans called her) and going all the way back to Semiramis. The author's statement that "mandatory monogamy came from the Greeks and Romans, who did it because their myths said Hera/Juno required it, and Hera/Juno is a manifestation of the Satanic idol Semiramis" should really have been made plain earlier in the book in my opinion (the thread reaching that conclusion meanders through the book and it left me wondering "what does this have to do with polygamy" until close to the end), but when it finally lands it's pretty hard to deny.
The facts kind of come in rapid fire in this book and I found myself needing to reread a few pages because there's sometimes no space between one major point and the next, so I wouldn't call it a primer. Don't give this to your Christian friends who are just asking about polygyny for the first time because it'll overwhelm them.
However...
...If you're looking to prepare your own argument showing how the Bible has never prohibited polygyny and has indeed blessed it on many occasions, this book is a great research source to use as a refresher when preparing your notes.
Does the Bible Condone Polygamy,
by J. A. Farmer (which I'm pretty sure is a pseudonym)
ISBN 978-0995400344
Books pointing out the examples of blessed polygynists in the Bible and the absence of any condemnation thereof are so common that they must come from South America, because there's a brazillion of them out there.
(rimshot) ...Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
Anyway...
What I like about this one is that it goes to incredible lengths to point out the number of times God made His moral standards on things such as incest and adultery explicitly plain before Moses (as early as Genesis) and after Moses (in Christ's teachings). This is then used as leverage of the point "if God had no qualms about making His moral standards plain even before the Law was given, how then can you say He was 'only tolerating polygyny because people didn't know any better?' He proved He had no problem making people know better, even at the cost of lives, if He found something abhorrent."
It also goes DEEP into the idolatrous roots of the idea of mandated monogamy, tying threads between Goddess-worshipping regimes such as the Grecian worship of Hera (or Juno as the Romans called her) and going all the way back to Semiramis. The author's statement that "mandatory monogamy came from the Greeks and Romans, who did it because their myths said Hera/Juno required it, and Hera/Juno is a manifestation of the Satanic idol Semiramis" should really have been made plain earlier in the book in my opinion (the thread reaching that conclusion meanders through the book and it left me wondering "what does this have to do with polygamy" until close to the end), but when it finally lands it's pretty hard to deny.
The facts kind of come in rapid fire in this book and I found myself needing to reread a few pages because there's sometimes no space between one major point and the next, so I wouldn't call it a primer. Don't give this to your Christian friends who are just asking about polygyny for the first time because it'll overwhelm them.
However...
...If you're looking to prepare your own argument showing how the Bible has never prohibited polygyny and has indeed blessed it on many occasions, this book is a great research source to use as a refresher when preparing your notes.
