Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. John 7:24
Judging Righteous Judgment
This is a message to my friends in Christian Patriarchy. I have seen cases, and I’m seeing them again, where so-called experts in Coinaia Greek, or who claim to know church history, attack Christian Patriarchy. Don’t be baited. Simply witness in kindness as is your custom, and use the discussion to bring them closer to Christ. Only by using Scripture can they be brought to trust Christ and His Word only.
The Dangers of the Fallacy of Authority
What is the Fallacy of Authority? It’s the illogical claim, the false claim, that because an authority says the claim is true that it must be true. We’ve all seen this play out, where two opposing camps claim their view is the correct one because their expert source says it’s correct. Both have their experts, their authorities, but neither of those authorities are infallible. We in Christian Patriarchy have our authorities too. And they often have credentials far beyond the credentials of those in the grips of Christian Matriarchy. But we must not be led down the path of dueling authorities. God’s Word must win the day in the fight against the doctrines of devils.
God’s Word IS Infallible (absolutely trustworthy)
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:” Ephesians 6:17
AMEN!
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
Faith in God is what they lack. Those with great faith will easily grasp fundamental truths in the Scripture. If their ability to grasp basic doctrines is limited, it is an indication that their faith is limited. My brothers in Christian Patriarchy, I know you. You use your Bible to gently lead others to Christ with God’s Word. You ask them to open their Bibles and read God’s Word with you, because you know that “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing, by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 Let’s remember; When we deal with Christian Matriarchy, we are dealing with an organized religion that uses cultic tactics and in many cases, an outright cult that is masquerading as mainstream. They call Christian Patriarchy a cult, yet they use the tools of cults and the tools of leftists against us. They argue their points with fallacies of authority, ad hominem attacks, and every other logical fallacy. They project onto us, what they are. Knowing this, can be a valuable tool in witnessing to them. Remember:
When they say that you are doing something wrong,
they are actually doing what they claim you are doing.
Do they say you mistreat women? They mistreat women, or they would follow Exodus 22:16 and require a public declaration of marriage, instead of telling grown men and women to delay marriage. For all of Christian history, until the 1960s, shotgun weddings were considered the moral thing to do when a man laid with a woman. In fact, for half the population, until abortion (baby murder) was legalized, the one thing that half the brides had in common was they were pregnant. But the so-called love generation, exchanged marriage for the killing of babies. In the 1960s, women also stopped wearing hats, one of the many coverings worn by Christian women up until that time. Modern churches debate head coverings while the women in churches before the 1960s simply wore them as second nature. And it was only men who would take their hats off in an assembly of believers, not women. Women are to have head coverings as a show of respect for their position in God’s creation, and as an indication they know men are there to protect them, and yes, to rule them. Christian Matriarchy offers no protection for their women. And what they claim is protection causes harm.
Christian Patriarchy respectfully requests the women in the church to defer to God’s authority by wearing head coverings. God requested it. We are simply restating what God requested.
Christian Matriarchy has Legalized Rape and
Renamed marriage as Fornication or Statutory Rape
Some churches within Christian Matriarchy have legalized rape by declaring all marriages indissoluble except for the cause of adultery. That’s the exact description of the penalty for rape of a virgin found in Deuteronomy 22:28-29
“If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.” Deuteronomy 22:28-29
Keep in mind that the now wife of the rapist could still be put to death by stoning if caught in adultery along with the man who committed adultery with her. But the fact that the virgin rapist may only divorce his woman for adultery means the woman can spit in his face, metaphorically or otherwise, speak profanities, behave in a lewd manner, and even run naked through the streets and he can’t divorce her. Those crimes are not adultery, and as such are not punishable by death. But that doesn’t mean she can’t be disciplined by both the husband and a duly authorized court of a nation, and in some nations churches and synagogues are given that authority as well. But according to the Bible, the rapist may never divorce the woman whose virginity he stole. Telling all men they can’t divorce for other than adultery is tantamount to calling them a rapist of virgins! And Jesus knew this. Of course He knew this, that’s why he said it. He handed back to the pharisees the teaching of the school of Shammai, without endorsing it, for the word he used, as Tyndale noted in his English translation, can be translated as breaketh matrymony, or breaketh wedlocke, or commyt advoutry (adultery). This statement by Jesus serves the purpose of giving a non-answer to the Pharisees in the same way as when he retorted “Render unto Caesar.” .
Tyndale Translation of Matthew 5:32
“But I say unto you: whosoever put awaye his wyfe (exxcept it be for forncacion) causeth her to break matrymony. And whosoever maryeth her that is devorsed breaketh wedlocke.” Matthew 5: 32
But Jesus’ cryptic answer does not absolve the Bible scholar from the requirement of due diligence. And that due diligence is to recognize that Jesus would not institute any law that eliminated the penalty for raping a virgin. If all men are under the same restrictions for divorce, then raping a virgin would put the rapist at no greater risk than a man who asks the father for the daughters hand in marriage and then marries her. So let’s look at the follow up verses between Jesus and His disciples.
Here we have Jesus’ side comment to his disciples when they mistook his words for an actual command. Certainly they hadn’t take Him literally when He said “If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out.” Just a few verses before, in the Matthew 5 account of the same incident. But now, Jesus must explain to His disciples the nature of his answer to the Pharisees.
Matthew 19:10-12
“His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.”
They knew to take His words literally made no sense.
“But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.”
To whom was it given? To the Pharisees. They were the ones who came “unto him, tempting him.”
Then Jesus out of earshot of the Pharisees, made statements to His disciples about the Pharisees that would ban them from the temple if they were to follow his instructions, castration.
“For there are some eunuchs, (men who got no balls) which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs,(men who got no balls) which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs,(men who got no balls) which have made themselves eunuchs(men who got no balls) for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
Well, I ain’t a receivin it, is you?!!!
There are few insults in the Bible so direct as Jesus words here, but they are lost on 99.9 percent of so-called Bible scholars once they read something having to do with their own cultural taboos and traditions. Keep in mind, Jesus own stepfather, “Joseph her [Mary’s] husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.” Matthew 1:19
So just men, men with balls, like Joseph, would not so much as attempt a public trial if it was their word against the wife’s word. Particularly when there was no man to bring forward as an accused as well. Adultery accusations cannot be brought without both the man and the woman. Is it any wonder that Jesus saw through the words of the men accusing the woman caught in adultery when they brought no man to Jesus, tempting him?
In summary, Jesus created the universe, of course he knows the meaning of every jot and tittle of the law. To prohibit divorce except in the case of adultery is to impose the penalty for raping a virgin, on men who did no such thing! Such divorce requires proof that the woman did commit adultery, and few men have other than their own testimony against the woman. And in the case where she became pregnant when they were having no relations, that is exactly the situation. Yet if men must prove adultery, they have the same burden placed on them, as men who rape virgins.
Communism is to Capitalism what Matriarchy is to Patriarchy
In every communist society you will find black markets where goods are sold to the highest bidder. If there are more goods than buyers, the price goes down. If goods are dear, the price goes up. This occurs naturally regardless of what the communists do to circumvent it. Man-made interventions in property rights always fail.
In every assembly of Christian Matriarchy, the property rights over the woman’s body are not only taken away from her father but they are taken away from her! Her body is no longer dear, it can be gotten for no price at all.
In a matriarchal society, you will find black markets for immorality: strip clubs, open debauchery, and prostitution. But mostly old fashioned harlotry and fornication. Brides’ Prices are outlawed; responsible men of a mature age are forbidden from courting or marrying the most fertile women; rape is legalized when committed by men “too young” (i.e. minors) to pay restitution, and the value of women declines.
At times, the enemy, who uses tares, will attack using those tares, they will claim your words are brutal even though your words are direct quotes from Scripture, Chapter and Verse provided. The tares will never use scripture to prove, only to distract. Once you have pointed out their errors, they move on to their next illogical argument, without repenting of their first error. So to conclude I offer a verse. Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool:
for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
My favorite reply to the most egregious of objections the pew warmers of Christian Matriarchy make, is not to reply to their objection, but to say, “Go ask your pastor. You will find out he doesn’t take your position. He takes mine.” Yes, sometimes it’s their very own authority who will tell them they are wrong, not about polygamy but about nearly every other point we make about Christian Patriarchy. You’ll find that in nearly every discussion about Scripture, this is the case. It’s not surprising, the pew warmers have an even poorer grasp on Scripture and History than their pastors. Few pastors will deny that the laws of the United States are based on the moral and legal code found only in the Old Testament. They just want to accept the culture’s lax enforcement of those laws instead of God’s righteous instructions. The arguments of Christian Matriarchy inevitably fall apart when approached with an open Bible and a heart for the Lord.
In closings, a reminder: It is those within Christian Matriarchy that bait and switch their followers from salvation to matriarchy. We have the narrow path, we care more about leading them to Christ than leading them to our church. Let’s pray for those who are misled into believing that following their form of marriage is more important than following the Bible. And lets approach them as if it’s the first time they’ve heard the gospel from someone who truly cares about their lives, because for many, it is.
