by Brian Shilhavy

Ever since the COVID Scandemic in 2020, where America’s Christian Churches and Church leaders overwhelmingly bowed their knees to U.S. President Donald Trump and locked their church members out of their churches and required them to stay home instead, and then later accepted government funding to turn their churches into COVID-19 vaccine centers to inject all of their church members with Trump’s EUA (emergency use authorized) deadly COVID-19 injections, I have spent considerable time showing how American Christianity is a false religion, and that their teachings are NOT supported in the Bible.

I have enough articles on the false Christian religion now to create a book, although I do still have a couple of topics to cover before that book is complete.

At this point as we begin the year 2025, these would probably be the chapters of this book so far on the false Christian religion:

Chapter 1: Fact Check: “Christianity” and the Christian Religion is NOT Found in the Bible – The Person Jesus Christ Is

Chapter 2: The Demonic Roots of Christianity: The Christians Jesus Said He Hated

Chapter 3: Is “Pastor” A Biblical Title for Church Leaders?

Chapter 4: Christian Myths: The Bible does NOT Teach that it is Required for Believers in Jesus to “Join a Church”

Chapter 5: Exposing Christian Myths: The Bible does NOT Teach that Believers Should Always Obey the Government

Chapter 6: How to Determine if you are a Disciple of Jesus Christ or Not

Chapter 7: The Concept of the American Christian Family is a Myth and is NOT Found Anywhere in the Bible

This article I am publishing today, therefore, is a Part 2 to the previous article I wrote on the American Christian Family, where I showed that the American concept of a “good Christian family” as illustrated in the image above, is a myth, and found nowhere in the Bible.

All of the “heroes of the faith” in the Bible, in both the Old Testament and New Testament, had broken and dysfunctional families, which is the norm.

Even when we look at the life of Abraham, considered the “Father of our Faith” by Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike, I wonder how many people, without opening their Bibles first, can state what the original command was to Abraham by God, to become the one who would “bless all nations?”

This is known as the “Abrahamic Covenant” and is recorded in Genesis chapter 12, and the very first thing God commanded Abraham was:

The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1)

I created my own interpretation of what a “good Christian family” is as illustrated here to bring it more into reality, both modern-day reality, as well as the reality of the families portrayed in the Bible:

This article, then, which is about the American Christian family, is part 2, and just concentrates on the actual recorded words of Jesus Christ himself, and what he actually taught about biological families, since his teaching from the Bible is seldom, if ever, taught in American Christian churches today.

There will at some point be a Part 3 on the American Christian family in a future article, looking at what the Bible actually teaches about sexuality, marriage, and children. In that article I will expose the myth that there are only two ways to look at family life today in America: the Christian “conservative” one, and the Liberal one, by showing that the Bible actually teaches something completely different from either of those two narrow views.

The Teaching of Jesus Regarding Biological Families

Illustration of Jesus visiting the 3 siblings of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus in Bethany. They were not part of his biological family, who had rejected him, but Jesus loved these 3 siblings deeply. (Story in John Chapter 11.)

One of the best ways to do a topical study on something Jesus taught is to just read through the Gospel records yourself, and take notes every time that topic is discussed.

There are 4 books in the New Testament, the first four, that are referred to as “Gospel accounts” of the life of Christ. Matthew, Mark, and Luke all have many similarities, no doubt relying on source documents that were similar. John’s Gospel does not seem to draw on the same source material, and is very different, although many of the same events and teachings are documented as in the other accounts.

I recently completed a study of the shortest of the Gospel records on the life of Jesus Christ, Mark, which is thought to be the oldest writing of the four accounts.

I took notes on what Jesus said and how he acted in terms of our biological families.

The Call of Jesus to Follow Him: Leave Behind Biological Family Members

Jesus began his public ministry of preaching and teaching at about the age of 30. He was trained as a carpenter, but we have no text about who might have been running the family carpentry business when he began. Jesus would have been the oldest of his (half) siblings, and we know from the biblical text he had both brothers and sisters.

In the first chapter in the Book of Mark we read:

As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

At once they left their nets and followed him.

When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him. (Mark 1:16-20)

And so we have the account of the first of Jesus’s disciples, two pairs of brothers, who were professional fishermen who worked in their fathers’ businesses as commercial fishermen in the Sea of Galilee.

To just simply walk away from one’s career and from their families, putting pressure on their fathers to continue their businesses without their adult sons, would not have been an easy decision, and certainly not a decision their families would have agreed with.

It most certainly went against the cultural, economic, religious and social values and norms of that time.

We read later that at least Peter, if not all of them, was also married and probably had his own family as well, as at one point Jesus healed the mother of Peter’s wife.

When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. (Matthew 8:14-15)

Giving up one’s career and family relations to follow Jesus when he walked the earth, is restated several times of some of the other disciples as well during that time.

Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them.

As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. (Mark 2:13-14)

There are also accounts of others who desired to join Jesus and follow him in his itinerant ministry, whom Jesus did not allow unless they were first willing to leave their biological family.

Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” (Matthew 8:19-22)

To say “first let me go and bury my father” apparently meant to stick around until one’s father died, so one could inherit the family business.

Jesus did not allow it.

In the tenth chapter of Mark, we have an interesting story recorded about a rich man who came to Jesus and wanted to follow him.

Because he was wealthy, Jesus told him to go sell everything he had and give it to the poor.

He wasn’t willing to do that. The cost was too high.

The disciples are amazed, and Peter exclaims: “We have left everything to follow you!” (Mark 10:28)

The disciples who were following Jesus had, indeed, lost EVERYTHING in terms of wealth and family members in order to follow him, and they feared it was not enough when they saw what Jesus said to this rich man.

In that tenth chapter of Mark, Jesus assured them that as a reward for leaving everything behind, God would replace those things and family members, both in the present (through the household of God), as well as in the next life, but that they would have to suffer persecutions and endure hardships for doing so.

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” (Mark 10:29-31)

This is the complete opposite of what most Christian churches teach today in America, where the false teachings are basically a version of the “prosperity Gospel” that tells people they can become rich as Christians without sacrificing anything, and without persecutions and suffering.

And if you are an “upstanding” and model Christian in these churches, you most certainly would never leave your family or job, as that would be seen as irresponsible and not “Christian.”

There are exceptions, of course, in American Christianity. If you’re a member of the armed forces and your government deploys you to some battlefield to kill people from other countries and other religions who are declared a “threat” to Christian America’s “national security,” for example, then that’s OK.

You can leave your family for a year or more on deployment to go kill some “bad guys” in another country, and no one will blame you for leaving your family behind in those situations, because it is the “Christian” thing to do.

When Biological Family Members Oppose our Loyalty to Jesus Christ, They Become Our Enemies

When we get to the third chapter of the Gospel of Mark, we see that Jesus had become so popular from his miracles of healing, raising the dead, and casting out of demonic spirits, that people from all over Israel, and beyond, traveled to see Jesus.

But one place where Jesus was NOT popular, was in his own hometown of Nazareth, among his own family and relatives.

While the whole nation of Israel was talking about Jesus and debating who he was and if he was, indeed, the promised Messiah, his own family thought he was insane, and literally tried to stop him by taking custody of him.

Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat.

When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him,

“Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said,

“Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” (Mark Chapter 3.)

Jesus made it very clear, publicly, that his new family were those who “did the will of God” and followed his teaching, and that his biological family who opposed him, had no authority over him.

Jesus lamented that his hometown, and those among his extended family who watched him grow up, did not believe in him.

Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

“Where did this man get these things?” they asked.

“What’s this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?”

And they took offense at him.

Jesus said to them,

“Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor.”

He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of faith. (Mark 6:1-6)

As the popularity of Jesus grew among the masses, and opposition against him by the ruling Satanic Jews also increased as they looked for a way to murder Jesus, Jesus moved beyond just teaching that his disciples would be rejected by their biological families, and also taught that the biological family members of his disciples would become their enemies, trying to kill them in their zeal for Israel nationalism.

“You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues (churches). On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.

Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.” (Mark 13:9-13)

Mark’s mention of biological family opposition is brief, but we find expanded text on Jesus’s teaching about our biological family members becoming our enemies as we give up everything to follow Jesus Christ in the other Gospel records.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law– a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:34-38)

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters–yes, even his own life–he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26-27)

How could Jesus have made this teaching any more clear?!

And yet, if you are still attending a Christian Church, have you ever heard your Christian religious leader, such as a “pastor” or “priest” ever preach or teach on this subject?

Not likely! Since the very foundation of American Christianity and their “churches” is not even based on the teachings of Jesus nor the New Testament books of the Bible, they need biological family structures in their organizations to support their religious institutions, and their $billions spent on “Christian Values” and “Christian Family Values” to support what is a multi-$trillion Christian industry.

Follow the Christian Crowd or Follow Jesus Christ – You Cannot do Both

The cost of following the Truth, who is a person not a concept, is very high, and very few are willing to pay that price.

And for those unwilling to pay the steep price of following Jesus, which means being willing to give up everything this life that is ruled by Satan has to offer, including the members of our own families, they will do everything they can to attack and criticize, and even murder, those of us who do count the cost and pay that price.

The teachings of Jesus in the Bible could not be more clear:

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” (John 15:18-19)

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.” (Matthew 7:13-20)

It is rare day here in 2025 where I do not get at least one person emailing me or trying to comment on my articles, condemning me and attacking me for my faith in Christ, and for pointing out the anti-christs and false prophets who Americans idolize as evil, which is what we are called to do as disciples of Christ.

Jesus said:

There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell.

Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. (Luke 12:2-7)

There is no one in my biological extended family who supports me. None. And many of them have attacked me, and even tried to arrest me.

If your biological family and other American Christians don’t hate you, then perhaps you are no threat whatsoever to Satan’s world system, and are in fact probably supporting it as a “good Christian”, whether you realize it or not.

My message to the public has not changed for over two decades now, and that message is to STOP listening to the religious experts, ESPECIALLY the Christian ones if you live in the U.S., and start reading the source documents for yourself, in the Bible, so that you can see through the lies of those who claim to base their rhetoric and teaching from the Bible.

I am simply a messenger, doing what I have been told to do since my spiritual rebirth in 1979. I don’t have any organization I want you to join, I don’t want your money to support my teachings, and I don’t even want a group of people who “follow me.”

If you email me and ask for advice about anything in the Bible, I will seldom reply, as the Bible is not some mystic book that is hard to understand, and that needs “experts” to explain it to you.

You can read it yourself, and pray for God to give you the wisdom you need to apply it your own specific life and situation, which neither I nor any other teacher can know, but God does.

God knows you better than you know yourself, because he created you, and he created you for a very specific purpose, that only you can know by having it revealed directly to you, by God himself through his Spirit, which has now been made available to every single human being on this planet, regardless of whatever group you belong to, through the blood sacrifice of the Son of Man and the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

To trust in anyone or anything else to meet your deepest physical and spiritual needs, is simply idolatry.

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue (church); in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you.

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.

But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16)

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. (John 14:12-14)

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