PATRIARCHY Studyletters

Table of Contents

Back in the mid-1980's I circulated a "Studyletter" called "PATRIARCHY." These are the major essays in that series (which I am presently converting to HTML) along with links to the "95 Theses on Patriarchy."

Patriarchy: A Definition

Family vs. Church and State: A History

The Bible Describes the Battle

95 “Vine & Fig Tree” Theses

The heart of our thesis is a survey of the State in Scripture. Just to be cute, we have divided our survey into 95 key events or commandments in the Bible which either show the State to be immoral, or champion decentralized free market approaches to social problems. Along the way we discuss several other doctrines which are implicitly or explicitly presupposed in the mainstream expositions of Romans 13, such as “the depravity of man,” the predestined decline of civilization before the Second Coming (eschatology), and the “separation of church and state.” Micah's “Vine & Fig Tree” world is possible today.

The Theses are arranged chronologically, as you would find them reading through the Bible. They are organized under the following heads:

Introduction

A. Patriarchy Before the Fall

B. Patriarchy Before the Flood

C. Patriarchy Before Sinai

D. Patriarchy Under Moses

E. Patriarchy and the Rise of the State

F. Patriarchy and Providence: the State

G. Patriarchy and the Messiah

H. Patriarchy and the Early Home-Churches

I. Patriarchy in the Millennium

  Introduction

A. Patriarchy Before the Fall

View | Thesis 6: The Biological Basis of Patriarchy

View | Thesis 7: The Dominion Mandate

View | Thesis 8: Patriarchy and "the Extended Family"

Patriarchy: The Original Society

View | Thesis 9: Patriarchy and the Sanctions of the Covenant

View | Thesis 10: The Priority of Agrarianism

View | Thesis 11: Patriarchy and the Mountain

Conclusion: At no time before the Fall did God command men to form “the State”

 

B. Patriarchy Before the Flood

Conclusion: At no time before the Flood did God command men to form “the State”

 

C. Patriarchy Before Sinai

Conclusion: At no time before the giving of the law at Mt. Sinai did God command men to form “the State”

 

D. Patriarchy Under Moses

Conclusion: The Mosaic System did not contain a command from God for men to form “the State”

 

E. Patriarchy and the Rise of the State 

Conclusion: At no time before the time of Saul did God command men to form “the State”

 

F. Patriarchy and Providence: The State

Conclusion: At no time in the Old Covenant did God command men to form “the State.” The desire for a State was a rejection of God. God raises up evil empires to “serve” His purposes of vengeance, but the men participating in these acts of violence are judged by God.

 

G. Patriarchy and the Messiah

CONCLUSION: The Messiah came to establish His Kingdom and crush rival empires to powder.

 

H. Patriarchy and the Early Home-Churches

CONCLUSION: The Early Christian families, meeting in homes, were opposed by both “Church” and “State.”

 

I. Patriarchy in “the Millennium”

CONCLUSION: God prohibits murder, theft, and deprivation of liberty, actions which form the heart of “the State.” God nowhere commands men to form “the State.” The State, therefore, should be abolished

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Garden of Eden there was the Family. There was no priesthood, no State.

All human beings are created in families. Patriarchy is an inescapable concept. If the Christian pater does not train his family in the Ways of Peace, he will be oppressed by a “paternalistic” State.

The Institutions of Church and State are unBiblical. They reflect rebellion against God's Law.

The whole history of man as recorded in the Bible is the history of sinful rebellion against society as created in the Garden of Eden, and the construction of institutions based on coercion and violence. It is the history of Politics vs. Patriarchy.

Not Priesthood, nor Statecraft: The Family is God's Central Institution.

Training Ground for Morality, Forgiveness, Self-Discipline, Competence.

Obedience through the Family eliminates tyranny, protects property.

Institutions such as Church and State were formed in rebellion, not faith.

The Christmas Conspiracy Is the Product of the Home

The Fifth Archetype: Family


The Christmas Conspiracy


Virtue


Vine & Fig Tree


Paradigm Shift


Theocracy

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