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Welcome to Biblical Families, and congratulations on your successful extraction from the JW cult.

I was always a lover of YHVH, from a super young age (8yo) I remember laying on my back under my dads workshop singing kingdom melodies and praying all by myself. I had 2 older sisters and a super feminist mom. My dad worked a lot, but always...

Welcome to Biblical Families, and congratulations on your successful extraction from the JW cult.

Shalom and welcome.

That’s very much a modern, cultural viewpoint. Traditional cultures (not even necessarily biblical) valued being part of the extended family or tribe. All members submitted to the elders or family patriarch. Paul’s letters very much mirrored...

Wealth is a relative term. How do you define it?

Right, I would make a distinction between ability and authority; we could even say power and authority. The husband has the authority but the wife has the ability to contravert that authority. We could debate what the results of controverting...

When the owner of this site had more discretionary time, there was a more distinct structure to this ministry as you propose. It wasn’t a “church” per se but there was a presbytery of sorts of three polygynous men that directed the direction of...

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. We’ve seen plenty of lives play out in disaster over the years on this site because men discovered a mature doctrine and pursued it with youthful reckless abandon.

And if the first one is on shakey ground, taking a second may fare no better. I wrote my own vows for my first marriage and they were a combination of Bible verses, so I didn't have to deal with this unbiblical vows issue. However, as far as I...

The monogamy vow is a little bit of all of those options. Vows in general should be kept. A wife has no authority to enforce a vow on her husband. A husband has the authority to instruct his wife to release him from that vow. The doctrinal case...

That dude should have stayed there and looked for a job as a bricklayer there! As far as a soul mate, local congregations abound!

We have hired a teenage nanny from the church. Hmmm, come to think of it, that was before I realized polygyny is not a sin! Maybe I should have kept her contact info. Oh and if anybody here in the Central Texas area needs a good nanny, my wife...

After. Combining resources but reducing outgoings

So a tangent question could be- Does wealth come BEFORE a family is created (so dad can AFFORD several wives) or after where many hands make light work?