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Man and Woman in Biblical Law

by Tom Shipley (Paperback)
Product Number: 11991296

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Book Information:
Paperback: 278 pages
Binding: Perfect-Bound Binding
Publisher: Institute for Christian Patriarchy
Date: June 2004


About This Book:

This book is a doctrinal manifesto. Its aim and purpose is to produce what many modern writers are fond of referring to as a paradigm shift. The goal is to lay the foundation for the establishment of a truly biblical social order, especially within the community of Bible-believing, Christ-honoring families. The subject matter is patriarchy and the biblical exposition contained herein is devoted to establishing the proposition that it is patriarchy which is and was mandated by God ever since the original creation of man and woman.

This work is vulnerable to being misperceived as a work primarily about polygamy since the bulk of the exposition centers around that subject. But read carefully. Note the flow of the argumentation. The biblical exposition on polygamy here serves a supporting role to the fundamental proposition of God-ordained and mandated patriarchy. In terms of this thesis, it is a secondary and subsidiary point - which is not to say that it is not important as a subject in its own right.

There are a multitude within the ranks of the Evangelical churches who are rightly and justifiably dismayed at the encroachment of feminist ideology as a subversive factor within Christendom and who are formally in favor of the biblical mandate of male headship within the Family and the Church. Sadly, almost all of the responses and reactions to this encroachment are fundamentally compromised with feminism in one way or another. This present work rejects all such compromise.

A complete Scripture Index is included.

 

]]> 2004-04-07T14:59:19+00:00 Download Book in PDF Format Now http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/download_book_in_pdf_free/         Tom's book is now available free of charge here as a PDF file.

Click on this link ->   Man_&_Woman_in_Biblical_Law_5.pdf

Form the front cover:

MAN AND WOMAN IN BIBLICAL LAW
A Patriarchal Manifesto 
 
Resurrecting the Biblical Family
Part 1
by Tom Shipley

From the back cover:

“For by a secret law of nature, things that stand chief love to be singular; but things that are subject are set under, not only one under one, but, if the system of nature or society allow, even several under one, not without becoming beauty. For neither hath one slave so several masters, in the way that several slaves have one master. Thus we read not that any of the holy women served two or more living husbands; but we read that many females served one husband, when the social state of the nation allowed it, and the purpose of the time persuaded it: for neither is it contrary to the nature of marriage. For several females can conceive from one man: but one female cannot from several men (such is the power of things principal) as many souls are rightly made subject to one God.”   —St. Augustine 
 
“We should not assume that our ways are normal and that God’s ways are an abnormality which needs vindication.”  —Greg Bahnsen, Theonomy in Christian Ethics 
 
“The continued obligation of the Levitical law on this subject is also recognized in the New Testament. This recognition is involved in the constant reference to the law of Moses as the law of God. If in any of its parts or specifications it is no longer obligatory, that is to be proved...If God gives a law to men, those who deny its perpetual obligation are bound to prove it. The presumption is that it continues in force until the contrary is proved. It must be hard to prove that the laws founded on the permanent social relations of men were intended to be temporary.”  —Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology

 

]]> 2008-05-12T18:08:41+00:00 The Religion of Humanism http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/the_religion_of_humanism/ The impotence of Christianity is due to its being infected with the rival religion of humanism.  The pure Humanists, best represented by the ACLU in the United States, chase around Christians and whip them in every battle even though they are outnumbered by 10,000 to 1 (Deut. 32:30). How can you fight a thing when it is part of who you are?

It is difficult to preach repentance to people who think they have arrived and are in full obedience to God. 

Listen, how could you be whipped 10,000 at a time by two of your enemy "unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up"?  And why has God given you up?  Because you have forsaken His law; you have reduced His law to a small corrupt thing and exalted your own self-righteousness.

Deut. 32:46
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

This is the key to defeating the enemy without: get rid of the enemy within through obedience - enthusiastic, wholehearted, immediate obedience.  Men want it from their wives, parents want it from their children, and God wants it from all of us - especially fathers.

]]> 2008-05-12T17:49:43+00:00 How to Spot a New Covenant Patriarch http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/bear_one_anothers_burdens_and_thus_fulfil_the_law_of_the_christ/ When the father of a girl or a woman herself is looking for a godly man, a new covenant patriarch, how can they be sure they have found one?  Now nothing is more desirable than a godly virgin woman.  Men will do almost anything to win or seduce such a prize.  So how does a godly woman tell the counterfeit godly man from the real thing? The answer is very simple.  It takes one to know one.  If you are obedient to God's specific laws and His LawWord in general you will easily know to separate the sheep from the goats.
 
The kind of obedience I am speaking of requires that you study and discuss and learn God's laws, precepts, wisdom, teachings, admonitions, and examples, when you get up and when you lie down, when you come and when you go, and while you are walking or riding in the car.  In other words, you are to seek out every opportunity to have God's character, reflected perfectly in every word of Scripture and acted out in real life by Jesus with perfect fidelity, be impressed upon you so that you become a walking, talking applier of God's will in whatever you do and say.
 
It is a big job.  It will be like going to school full-time except more so.  We are to write the law on our hands and put it between our eyes and on our doorposts and gates and write it on our hearts.  Write God's laws on Post It Notes and place them everywhere in your house and car.  Get an MP3 player and listen to God's LawWord as taught by R J Rushdoony or Greg Bahnsen, the greatest teachers of God's Law in our time - deceased now but both left behind lots of listening (and reading) material.  Read Tom Shipley’s book on Man and Woman in Biblical Law for the Biblical doctrine of marriage - very important for our topic here.
 
Beware of "handy-dandy hermeneutics" created by Pharisees of all types, who make the Word of God of none effect by their traditions.  I have already written about this elsewhere.
 
Now, when you think you have found someone that seems to fit all the above criteria there is one more thing to be sure of him: he must easily and willingly give of himself sacrificially for others, especially fellow believers.  That is, he must demonstrate his willingness to bear the burdens of others.  "Bear one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of the Christ." Galatians 6:2.  It seems like a contradiction but we only have life in ourselves when we have our life in others.
 
Thus while Christ incarnate is the mediator between God and man, His LawWord is the mediator between man and man.  That is, when we incarnate the LawWord of God and are married to another such person, you not only have the formula for a successful relationship, you have the basis for heaven on earth.  No matter the number of women married to a man, when all their relationships are encompassed round about by the Law of God, there will be no jealousy among them, only harmony and mutual help as they bear on another's burdens.  This division of labor is the source wealth in any economy.
 
Right now there are very few such godly men as far as I can see.  I have spent years trying to convince other Christian men of the ongoing validity of God's Law but no matter how much homage and verbal accent they give to it, when it comes down to doing anything that would result in a change in their behavior they always seem to slip out of it at the last moment with a handy-dandy hermeneutic or they just plainly say that the price is too high for them to pay.  They go along to get along, and move with the mainstream of the culture (albeit on the conservative side), refusing to pay any price or challenge any tradition to more closely align themselves with the Law of God.  Then they wonder why their prayers bounce off the ceiling.  God does not take their words too seriously is because they adamantly refuse to take His Word too seriously.
 
So I am appealing to godly women.  Be women of God.  Submit yourself to Him.  Beautify yourself by learning obedience to every word of God and then pray for a man of similar character - married or not - and let the world be astonished as it witnesses your enthusiastic obedience and service to him in the Lord.  Make all other Christian men want to be as godly as that man so as to attract godly women as you.
 
]]> 2008-05-11T16:58:21+00:00 David and the Girls http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/david_and_the_girls/ David, son of Jesse, was a godly woman’s dream.  Why?  How was it that so many women wanted to marry this guy, even when he was a hunted man living in exile, even though he already had a wife and then even when he had multiple wives, they wanted him? Some how they had decided that a piece of David was worth more than all of a lesser man, and certainly better than an ungodly man.  In the case of Abigail, her ungodly husband became so distraught over his wife’s service of hospitality to David and her thinking so highly of him that he became stupified until God killed him.  Then she jumped at the opportunity to be David’s wife.  Why? Consider what should a godly woman want in a man if she could have the very best.  Now if she wants what an ungodly woman would want, like riches and good looks and so on, that is nothing noteworthy.  But what should she want in a man that would be different from what an ungodly woman would want?

A godly woman should want a godly man, a man after Yahweh's own heart, a man who says to Yahweh, "Thy will be done" and does it.  A man who empties himself of his own will and submits himself in enthusiastic conformity to Yahweh's character as revealed in His Word.  A man who loves Yahweh's LawWord and thinks, says, and does it and teaches others to do the same.

Why submit yourself to a man who is not himself submitted to Yahweh?  Do you hope to change him?  Only the Holy Spirit can change someone.  We cannot force this.  Scripture states very plainly that we are not to be unequally yoked.  You must not lower your standards and hope for the best.  Rather you are to be as true to Scripture as possible and throw yourself at a godly man, even if he is already married, and ask him if he will allow you to take his name for yourself and let you be his woman and the mother of your children (Isaiah 4:1) even if it means providing for yourself without the benefit of a dowry.  

Be like the godly women of old (1st Peter 3:5,6) who called their husband lord.  If you cannot imagine calling a certain man 'lord' or 'master' then don't marry him.  Don't initiate a marriage in disobedience!  What good can come of that?

Imagine contremplating moving to another country.  If the laws of that country are so onerous and the government so tyrannical or there is just plain lawlessness and chaos or some hellish mixture of the two why would you want to move there?  If you could move to a country where Yahweh's LawWord reigned supreme and the leader was a servant of God ruling in terms of Scripture would that not be the way to go?  Read Deuteronomy 28:1-14.  Good things come to those who obey Yahweh and no sorrow is added with it.  Trust Yahweh and obey Him; do not trust those who forbid marriage (a doctrine of demons) in the Lord.  Monogamania is, at its root, demonic.  Do not trust those who try to get you to lower your standards and destroy your hope for a godly husband.

]]> 2008-05-11T14:17:56+00:00 The War on Godly Procreation http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/the_war_on_godly_procreation/ It is time to fight back.
Ge 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth."

Ge 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Ge 35:11

God also said to him (Jacob):
I am God Almighty.
Be fruitful and multiply.
A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,
will come from you,
and kings will descend from you.

It is time to identify our enemies and remove their propaganda from our thinking.  Under the guise of caring about women, they want to convince us that women are better off not being mothers but should be liberated to be like men, to be something other than what Jehovah made them to be. 

It is true:  Feminism, monogamy, and witchcraft form an unholy trinity working the destruction of Christian civilization.

The slippery slope: anti-polygyny laws and mores, contraception, abortion, easy divorce, sodomy, judgement.

]]> 2008-05-02T19:53:07+00:00 New Covenant Patriarchy and 'Be Fruitful and Multiply' http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/what_are_we_here_for/ Where are we in the storyline of history from the vantage point of Jehovah?  While we cannot know the timing of things future, Scripture does give us the big picture. When man sinned in the garden he did not escape what he was put on earth to do. He just has to do it with the burden of the curse on his back. So what are we, Abraham's seed by faith, here to do? We have to have dominion over the earth, and be fruitful and multiply. Not just anybody is so commanded, but the faithful, from Adam (Gen. 1:28) to Noah (Gen. 9:1) to Abraham (Gen. 17:5) to Jacob:

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; Genesis 35:10

Now is the time of generation for the regenerated.  We must be obedient to this mandate.  This is why we are here.

And a word for the leaders of Russia, Italy, Japan, and other countries: If your country is under the curse of demographic disaster, conform your laws to Scripture and encourage godly patriarchy.

]]> 2008-04-22T14:17:21+00:00 Wayne's Handy Dandy Heresy Hermeneutics http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/waynes_handy_dandy_heresy_hermeneutics/ Now some of you are old hands at this but print this article out anyway and keep it handy in case you run into a new Christian or one that is getting all excited about the Bible.  After all, we all know just how bothersome and tiresome God’s Law can be.  I mean, hey, there are huge sections of Scripture that just don’t fit with our modern times and good solid evangelical culture.  So what we are going to do is find a New Testament verse and a way of interpreting it that will justify throwing out whole, huge sections of God’s Law, so as to really put the Old in “Old Testament” (and parts of the New).  That way we can get on with our lives feeling quite good about doing what we want, with fitting in, and getting along, and not sticking out of the crowd. Now the rules are that: a) you are not to question the interpretation of these handy-dandy verses, and b) don't take "Old Testament" verses too seriously - always remember that they are old and thus by definition irrelevant to us.

  1. Now take anything the Bible has to say about food anywhere and just wrap it all in a bundle and tie it up with that vision Peter had with the blanket full of animals and throw the whole thing overboard.  (Don't keep reading on to the part where Peter gives the intepretation himself and it has nothing to do with food.)

    Now do you see how this works?  Lets try another.

  2. There is a constant theme of patriarchy running through all of Scripture about how the man is the head of the woman, yada, yada, yada.  Take that whole idea and then find that verse about how in Christ there is neither male nor female and flush that puppy down the tubes.

    How handy is that huh!?

  3. What about all the examples of patriarchs and godly men in Scripture as well as verses like Ex 21:10 that assume it is perfectly okay to have more than one wife?  Just take the word 'mia' in the verses in Timothy about the qualifications for elders and deacons and translate it 'one' instead of 'first' and you can completely overturn God's definition of family and adultery and restructure society along completely Greek lines of thinking and really put the nail in the patriarchy coffin.

  4. To get rid of any consideration of God's Law at all there is always Matthew 19:8 where, if you squeeze your eyes together so everything gets blurry, you can imagine that Jesus is tossing out Moses on his ear and subsistuting a new and improved way of relating to our fellow man.

    Dandy, dandy, dandy. 

    Some things don't need a verse, but just a plausible sounding idea. Fool youself and pretend others buy it, all at the same time!

  5. Want to turn your kids over to God's enemies to indoctrinate them into humanism and the worship of the state, while saving yourself the bother of homeschooling?  How about this line: "My kids are missionaries to the lost kids in the public schools."

This kind of thing is rampant throughout the church.  In fact it would be shocking for the people in the pew to actually hear the straight forward word of God preached without any handy-dandy "now here is why this is irrelevant" papering over of whatever was just read.  It is hard not to come to the conclusion that the institutional church has become so corrupted that its main purpose is to make sure no one actually knows what God says or does it.

But, like all problems, no matter how vexing, all of this is a nit.  Because we all have one problem and it is quite a manageable one.  It is God's requirement that we obey His commandments, that we put them into action just like Jesus did and enabled us to do.  All the other things that compete for our attention are God's problems (Deut. 28: 1-14).

Of course, if you do not like making obedience to God's LawWord your problem, He promises to give you other problems to worry about (Deut. 28:15-68).

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You put into words in a few paragraphs what I’ve been fumbling around for years to say.  Brilliant and thank you.

In Christ,
Perry Pierce

]]> 2008-03-07T13:44:54+00:00 New Covenant Patriarchy Discussion Group http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/new_covenant_patriarchy_discussion_group/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newcovenantpatriarchy.  If you have purchased and read the book we invite you to join the discussion.

I would like to add to the declaration that biblical polygyny is biblical and holy in the sight of the Lord.

In reference to David, a man after God’s own heart was declared righteous before the Lord. If we believe that the Holy Scriptures are of God and pure (Psalms 12:6-7) then we must submit our thoughts to what the Lord declared concerning David when stating: 1 Kings 15:4-5

Nevertheless for David’s sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem.

Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from ANY thing that he commanded him ALL the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Now we must ask ourselves is God ignorant of David’s sin of “polygamy” or was God fully aware of David’s 18+ wives even to the point HE gave them to David for a blessing? If God declared David followed ALL His commandments except with Bathsheba and Uriah then how could David be against God’s will in having multiple wives?

Brother Eric

]]> 2008-01-25T16:39:51+00:00 Monogamania: Never has so much depended on so little http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/index.php/weblog/monogamania_never_has_so_much_depended_on_so_little/ Some bad theology and a lot of rebellion are all that hold up the sharade of secular humanism. In the Bible the patriarchs - God fearing men - ruling responsibly over their families according to God LawWord are the model that God holds up as our example of righteousness. The denial of Biblical patriarchy by the church has made secular humanism the power it is today.

There are five aspects to Biblical Patriarchy:

1. arranged marriages (the father is responsible for the disposition of his sons and daughters in marriage with the consent of all),

2. the Biblical dowry (three years living wages paid by the man for a virgin),

3. patriarchal authority ( the rule and responsibility of the father of the household under God's LawWord),

4. the one-flesh nature of marriage (the disestablishment of church and state from marriage), and

5. potential polygyny (one man husbanding one or more wives).

The denial of each of these aspects of Biblical patriarchy has given secular humanism the crucial cooperation secular humanism needs in order to exercise the power it wields.  To see this clearly we must imagine what things might be like if Biblical patriarchy was once again understood to be righteous by Christians.

Secular humanism is simply the larger mirror of the reality of our family lives.  Secular humanism does not take God's LawWord into account and neither do Christians.  I spoke to a mother of a 17 year old girl yesterday and mentioned the importance of her father being involved in making sure she married the right guy and the 3 years wages a potential husband needs to bring to the table. 

"That sounds very Old Testament," she said. 

"There is no such thing as the "Old Testament"; that is an evolutionary category imposed on Scripture," I informed her, "There are the Law and the Prophets, the Gospels and Epistles: the dowry is part of God's Law order for the family." 

"But we have done away with the sacrifices," she responded, shaking her head. 

"Right, but the dowry has nothing to do with the sacrificial system or the priesthood.  It is simply God's Law which Jesus came to reconcile us to.  Like He said, 'If you love me obey my commandments'."

Frankly, the situation we find ourselves in is this: rather than look to God LawWord for our definition of right and wrong we look to our own reasoning.  This is what secular humanism does as well.  The laws of our country are made up without any deference to God's Law.  As we have denigrated the Law and the Prophets as being passé so has secular humanism denigrated the Constitution and our country's Christian heritage.

Christianity in the west is bound to be impotent as long as we view God's Law as impotent.

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