Second Edition of eBook Released: The Concept of the American Christian Family is a Myth and is NOT Found Anywhere in the Bible

by Brian Shilhavy

Today we are releasing the second edition of my eBook, The Concept of the American Christian Family is a Myth and is NOT Found Anywhere in the Bible.

Two new chapters have been added from some of my recent articles on “the family.”

It remains free, and you can download it from my online store, Healthy Traditions. While you are there, I hope you will purchase some of the finest products available in the U.S. to support my work here at Health Impact News, where I offer all of my writings to the public for free with no paywall.

For those who do not want to create an account in my store to get the free eBook, you can download it at this link.

I am not aware of any other similar writings on the topic of “family” anywhere else, taking an honest look at what the Scriptures actually teach on this topic, as opposed to religious dogma on the topic.

Because I am not employed by Christianity, nor even a member of the Christian religion, I am free to follow the truth wherever it leads, even if it is not popular.

Here is the Introduction to this book and the Table of Contents.

Introduction

The purpose of this book is to show what the Bible actually teaches about families, which contradicts the “Judeo-Christian” view of the family that is taught throughout Christianity.

This book is composed of five articles I have previously published on the Health Impact News network.

The mythical “Christian Family” is not found anywhere in the pages of the Bible, either in the Old Testament or New Testament.

My intended audience in writing this are all the people in modern western culture who are labeled as “broken” or from “broken families” who have been beaten down by Corporate Christianity and western culture because of this mythical definition of “family” that is considered “good” or “Christian,” and which, as a result, conditions people to feel guilty and inferior because their own family situation does not come close to this mythical one that has been portrayed pretty much since the advent of TV and movies in mass media just after World War II.

To everyone who has been conditioned to believe that they are failures and inferior because they come from “broken” families, I am declaring to you today, that you are NOT broken!

You are “normal,” and you are just like every other family of believers that we get glimpses of in the historical records of the Ancient Scriptures, the Bible.

Brian Shilhavy

Chapter 1: The Western Concept of “Family” is Unknown in the Ancient Biblical Literature
• Jesus’s “Family”
• Call no Man your “Father”
• Slaves or Freemen – The Household of God and the Children of Satan

Chapter 2: The Concept of the American Christian Family is a Myth and is NOT Found Anywhere in the Bible
• No Perfect “Good” Families Recorded in the Bible
• The “Christian Family” is a $Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
• The New Testament Model: The “Household of God” is More Important than Biological Families

Chapter 3: Jesus’s Teaching on Family vs. Christian Teaching on Family – Polar Opposites
• The Teaching of Jesus Regarding Biological Families
• The Call of Jesus to Follow Him: Leave Behind Biological Family Members
• When Biological Family Members Oppose our Loyalty to Jesus Christ, They Become Our Enemies
• Follow the Christian Crowd or Follow Jesus Christ – You Cannot do Both

Chapter 4: When Jesus’s Own Family Turned Against Him
• Were members of Jesus’s family among the disciples who stopped following him and turned against him?

Chapter 5: Christian Teaching on Sex and Marriage vs. The Actual Biblical Teaching
• Marriage in Ancient Cultures and the High Value of Children
• “Husband” and “Wife”
• Marriage
• Dating and Sex
• True Sexual Cultural Revolution is Needed
• Practical Advice for the 21st Century

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