Friendly Atheist "8 Kinds of Biblical Marriage” Response
In my journey through my Youtube feed a week or so ago, I saw a video come up from Hemant Mehta, the “Friendly Atheist” entitled “The 8 Different Kinds of Biblical Marriage”. Usually when I see videos like this from atheist channels, I expect their take on anything “Biblical” to be anything but, or they cherry pick to suit their message. I see some of that here, but I also see what I see from certain Street Epidemiologists like Pine Creek, where Hemant is working from an angle of incredulity about what scripture is saying. He is reading a modern morality into an ancient frame of law, which can be dangerous, because we miss the point that much of the Levitical law is case law, meaning God didn’t really want certain actions to happen, but He felt we needed laws to fall back on in the case that the action did happen. I want to take the time to work through the 8 kinds of marriage that Hemant mentions, and look at them from a proper historical and biblical lens and see if they are really