[babble-on]

Weren’t a lot of the patriarchs polygamous?

[rollo tomasi]

Yes (Include concubines as well), and their sins had lasting historical impacts.

Ishmael, "the sword will never leave your house", Solomon's fall...

The endgame that provides no more excuses is the illumination of Christ and His explicit teachings/commands.

"In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." Acts 17:30-31.