New Covenant Patriarchy

New Covenant Patriarchy and Life

The first command of God - a prime directive - is to be fruitful and multiply.  Strict monogamy restricts the obedience to and fulfillment of this command.

Do you know of any perfect or even near perfect fathers?  If you do please tell us all about him since I know I am not and I would like to know the secrets of raising children that would never fight with each other or go astray.

However, despite our imperfections, we are commanded to multiply and fill the earth.  Having children and lots of them is an act of faithfulness to God and a belief in the future.  To arbitrarily limit the number of children we have, say to due to false ideas of holiness, is to live in disobedience to God.  This is what the false doctrine of strict monogamy does.  It says that a man must not have as many children as he can care and provide for but rather whatever one particular woman can have.  That number is further limited by more anti-life attitudes and values that make having more that one or two children unthinkable.

Biblical patriarchy is fully pro-life.  It sees having more than one wife as a way to maximize the potential to have children and thus fulfill the command of God given in the garden even before the fall.

1. So, what about all the men who would not be able to find wives if polygamy was allowed? The ratio of male children to female children is about 50/50. If a man has four wives, that means that there are three other men who cannot marry. In the Old Testament, the men who did not marry were the ones who could not afford to marry. In today's society, that distinction does not exist.
   
   Also, one-to-one marriages are not a limitation on the number of children that can be born. My parents had eight kids, and I have several friends whose parents had 10 or even 16 kids.
   
   It seems to me that polygamy is actually damaging to children. Many studies have found that the lack of a good father figure causes significant to children. Now, my father is a great man, and was easily able to be a good father to his eight kids. But, if one man has 50 children, how can he spend time with all of them?
   Posted by  on  12/16  at  01:56 PM