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Month: November 2019
That Might Work for You, But Not My Marriage
“BGR, (my wife and I refer to you as Bigger Guy, phonetically pronounced), Just a word of encouragement, we decided over a year ago to switch the dynamic of our marriage to a more Biblical approach. Your blog has inspired a lot of the changes that we have implemented. We were “happily married partners” for many years. Since the change, our marriage has grown and flourished like never before.
I lead a men’s ministry at our church and have been trying to slowly introduce this way of thinking into my curriculum. (Biblical way of thinking I might add.) I have had many great comments about it but I have had one comment that left me dumbfounded. “That might work for you, but not my marriage.” So, God’s way isn’t the right way? We (I mean Bible believing churches) have swallowed the world and Satan’s lies about equality to the point of reading the Bible and ignoring it. Especially Titus 2.
Long and short, you are doing a great job. Thank you. We who believe as you have a long uphill battle before us. But we should not grow weary in doing good.”
What you just read was a recent comment I received from a man calling himself “AscendedHusband”.
First of all, I just want to say thank you to AscendedHusband for your prayers and your encouragement. I can truly say that when I receive these kinds of comments and emails God is using people like yourself to pour courage into me to continue to preach the word in a time when Christians “will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears” (2 Timothy 4:3).
And we need men like you, both in their own marriages and families as well as in church ministries in which they work to reintroduce the Biblical doctrines concerning gender roles that have been neglected for so many years. This really must be a grass roots movement. And when enough families join together in each local church, they can take back our local churches from the feminism that has poisoned them for so many decades.
And now in regard to the comment you mentioned from someone in your men’s ministry group that left you “dumbfounded”. Below is a story I wrote to illustrate why the “That might work for you, but not my marriage” response to Biblical gender roles in marriage is wrong.
A Tale of Two Home Builders
A wealthy land owner comes to two builders. He has already laid the foundation for two homes. He presents them with the requirements for building materials that must be used and rules for how they must build.
The first rule is that they may only build on the foundation that he has already laid and they cannot add to it or take away from it. The second rule is that they must build the home with uncut stones and grind up limestones and mix that with water and dirt to make the mortar.
Beyond the building materials, he leaves them with the basic requirements that the home must have a door, at least two windows, a kitchen, a living room and of course a bedroom.
He gives the builders freedom within these requirements to build for him the most beautiful homes they can.
The wealthy land owner says he is going on a long journey and will not return for three years. He tells the two builders they are free to live in the homes they build for him until he returns. And when he returns, he will judge their work. He says each of their homes must pass a test that he will reveal when he returns. If their home passes his test, they will receive great reward and honor. If it does not pass his test, their shame will be upon their own head.
The first builder decides that stone homes are out of fashion. And it would be grueling and time-consuming work to lift and carry all those heavy stones. He reasoned that wood homes were much more in fashion and would take only a fraction of the time to build. He would use that time savings to add more rooms to make the home more attractive.
The first builder finishes his home in only six months. And it is a beautiful wood home. He built not only a kitchen, living room and bedroom, but he also made a large dining room as well as a family room. Of course, to build these extra rooms he had to add to the foundation that was already laid to make the house bigger. But he was sure the wealthy land owner wouldn’t mind the few “minor” deviations he made from the building requirements.
The first builder is very impressed with the home he has built and he moves his family into this new home and throws great celebrations each week with his family and friends to show them the beauty of this home.
The second builder was not even half way through building his home when the first builder finished his. The second builder had set out to build the home following the express requirements of the wealthy land owner. He searched for the best uncut stones to build with and limestone that he could grind and mix with dirt to form the mortar.
The first builder who had finished his wood home came to mock the second builder. He told him how he was working too hard and his home was out of fashion. “No one is building these stone homes anymore; you need to get with the times and build a wood home like me. It is easier, faster and more attractive.”
But the second builder continued in his work. His aim was to please the landowner who had contracted him to build this house. He built a door for the home using a stone that could be rolled away. He built shutters from stone that could slide to and from the windows. He only built a living room, kitchen and bedroom as required and he did not add one inch to the foundation that had already been laid. The second builder faced great difficulty in building a stone roof for his home but eventually the home was completed after two years at which time he moved his family into the home he had built.
One year later, after three years of being away, the wealthy land owner returned to test the homes that the two builders had built.
He came to the first builder’s wood home. The wealthy landowner took note that the foundation had been added to. “Why have you added to the foundation I laid?” he asked. The first builder said “So I could build you a better home of course. I added a beautiful family room and dining room”. The land owner then asked “Why did you not use stone as I asked?” to which the first builder replied “Because wood homes are what everyone now builds. It is more beautiful than stone and is able to be built which much less effort”. The first builder asked the wealthy land owner “Can I show you the inside of the house, I think you will find it very pleasing?” to which he replied “No – your home must first be tested before I will enter it”.
The wealthy land owner then took torch oil and spread it all over the four outer walls of the first builder’s wood home. The first builder protested “why are you spreading torch oil all over the home I have built for you?” to which the land owner replied “To test it as I told you I would”. He then lit the torch oil on fire. The wood home was immediately engulfed in flames and the home quickly burned to the ground. The first builder screamed in agony “Why have you done this? Why have you destroyed what I have built for you?” to which the wealthy land owner responded “Why did you not follow my instructions?” He continued “If you would have followed my instructions your home would have passed my test and you would have received great honor and reward from me. Now you have escaped the flames with only your life and the shame of what you have done here will be remembered by all who see these ruins.”
The wealthy land owner then came to the second builder’s stone home. He took note that home was built exactly on the foundation which he had previously laid and nothing had been added to it or taken away from it. He then took his torch oil again and spread it on the four walls of the stone home as he had on the wood home before it. He lit the stone home on fire. As the oil burned off the stone walls of the home the home stood firm fully surviving the fire.
As the flames died out the wealthy landowner looked and saw the beautiful stone door and stone window shutters covering the two windows that had been built. He rolled away the stone door to enter the home and saw just as he required that there was a living room, kitchen and bedroom.
He then turned to the second builder and said “Well done good and faithful builder. You will receive a great reward and honor for what you have done. You have done well with this one home; I will now set you over all the other builders as they build homes on my land”.
We Must Follow God’s Design Requirements for Marriage
When someone’s response to hearing God’s design of Biblical gender roles in marriage is “That might work for you, but not my marriage” they are doing exactly what the first builder in the story you just read did. Many people truly believe that God just wants them to be happy in their marriages by any means they choose. Like the first builder and his wood house, they want to take the easy way out. They want their marriage to look like the world’s marriages. They don’t want to do the hard work in marriage that God’s design requires.
But God’s blue print for marriage is clearly spelled out in Ephesians 5:22-33. He tells us that in marriage “the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church” and that “as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing”. God created marriage to model the relationship of himself to his people. In this model men are to represent God in their love, sacrifice, leadership, provision and protection toward their wives as God does these things toward his people. And women are to model the people of God by their service, submission and reverence to their husbands (Proverbs 12:4,1 Corinthians 11:7,Ephesians 5:33,1 Peter 3:5-6).
When we stand before God one day and he looks over our marriage he is not going to judge our marriage by how happy and peaceful it was. But rather he will judge our marriage by how we attempted to follow his design no matter how difficult it was to follow.
Is it wrong to have happiness and peace in our marriages? Of course not. Happiness and peace may result from following God’s design for marriage, but these things should never be the goal of marriage. The goal of marriage must always be bringing glory and honor to God by modeling the relationship of God to his people.
Will Your Marriage Survive the Trying Fire of God?
Every Christian husband and wife must face the sobering reality that one day all of our life’s work, including our marriages will be tested as to whether we followed God’s design. The Bible reveals that just as in our story above, our works will be tried by the fire of God:
“10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”
1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (KJV)
All of our accomplishments in this life whether in our marriage or outside our marriage will be burned up if they are not done in obedience to God’s design. And we do not get to choose how we bring God glory, but rather we must follow his rules and his design for how we are to bring him glory if we are to one day receive the reward that he has in store for us.
Conclusion
The “That might work for you, but not my marriage” response to Biblical gender roles in marriage reveals a lack of trust in God and a complete misunderstanding of the primary purpose of marriage. God did not create marriage for the mutual happiness of men and women, he created it for his glory.
Wives, how long will you continue to deny that God created you to be in subjection to your husband rather than being his equal partner (Ephesians 5:22-24)? How long will you continue to deny that God created you to bear and care for your husband’s children (1 Timothy 5:14)? How long will you continue to deny that God created you to be a keeper in the home rather than a keeper in your career (Titus 2:5)? How long will you continue to deny that God created your body for your husband’s sexual use and satisfaction (Proverbs 5:18-19, Romans 1:27, 1 Corinthians 11:9)?
Husbands, how long will you continue to refuse to rule over your home as God commands (Genesis 3:16,1 Timothy 3:4)? How long will you continue to deny the responsibility you have to provide for your wife (Ephesians 5:29)? How long will you continue to neglect the spiritual teaching, washing and correction that God requires of husbands toward their wives (1 Corinthians 14:35, Ephesians 5:25-27, Revelation 3:19)?
On a final note, I want to mention a way in which the “That might work for you, but not my marriage” response would actually not be wrong. If it is not in opposition to Biblical gender roles, but rather it is in response to leadership and teaching styles within the framework of Biblical gender roles then it is not wrong. I myself have used the phrase “That might work for you, but not my marriage” when speaking to other Christian husbands when we compare our leadership styles in marriage. But it certainly was not said in any way that rejects Biblical gender roles.
God loves variety. That is why he had so many men from different backgrounds write the various books of the Bible. That is why he had the four Gospels written showing his life from four different perspectives. God has created us all, both men and women with different personalities and styles.
This is what I wanted to show in the Tale of Two builders story when I stated “He gives the builders freedom within these requirements to build for him the most beautiful homes they can”. And in the same way God gives us as husbands certain latitude and freedom within the bounds of his requirements for marriage in how we go about our duties as husbands and fathers.
In other words, I may be genuinely attempting to follow Biblical gender roles in my marriage and you as a husband might be as well, yet the style in which we conduct our marriages and our homes might be different in many ways.
But at the end of the day the most important question we must ask ourselves is “Will my marriage survive the trying fire of God when I stand before him?”
Sexism Is a Virtue Because the Bible is a Sexist Book
“So the Bible is a sexist book, and that fact alone should make Christians want to acknowledge that sexism has to be a virtue. And because the Bible has been assiduously ignored when it comes to these matters for lo, these many years, this should make us realize that it is also a lost virtue. Therefore it must be renewed, or restored, or recovered, or perhaps even reupholstered. But how?”
The statement above was made by Douglas Wilson on his “Blog and Mablog” site in an article he entitled “Restoring Sexism: The Lost Virtue”.
That is a bold assertion to state that “the Bible is a sexist book”. So it is in fact true that the Bible is a sexist book?
Well first we need to define what sexism is. According to Webster’s Online dictionary the definition of sexism is as follows:
“1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex especially : discrimination against women
2 : behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex”
So, the questions are does the Bible treat people different based on their sex and does it foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex?
The answer is a resounding YES.
In Ephesians 5:24 the Bible states “Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing” and in Titus 2:5 the Bible commands women to be “keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands”. It also states that women are not “…to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence” in 1 Timothy 2:12 and in 1 Corinthians 14:35 it states “And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home…” .
If those are not sexist statements right of out of the Bible, I don’t know what is. But we as Christians need to stop allowing humanists to frighten us into hiding with their labels.
And this is where Doug Wilson is taking a stand and I agree with him on this. I have previously written an article on this same subject about two years ago entitled “Why Christians Should Be Proud Sexists”. Some of my readers took offense at my attempt to redeem the term “sexist” as a badge of honor rather than a term of derision. Others took offense at my use of the word “proud” quoting passages like James 4:6 where the Bible states “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble”.
I explained however, that my statement about us as Christians being proud was not a pride in ourselves, but rather a pride in God and in his Word. It is pride that means to be “unashamed” as the Apostle Peter stated “Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf”.
So, should we as Christians be ashamed of the fact that our Bible and our God who gave us our Bible treats people differently based on sex and fosters “stereotypes of social roles based on sex”? The answer for any Bible believing Christian should be “No I am not ashamed of God or his Word or his design of men and women”.
Let me give some other great statements by Doug Wilson in this article on this subject of sexism:
“Sexism is certainly a sin against the gods of egalitarianism, but those gods are not gods at all. They are rather little wisps of aspirational fog floating off the sewage lagoon of late-stage secularism, and so we have no reason to feel bad about committing any such “sins.” If they are not gods at all, then sins against their commandments are not sins at all.
The living God has given us His Word, and nowhere in that Word does it say that sexism is a sin against Him. That means it is not a sin at all. In fact, various things that our culture defines as sexist are enshrined as virtues in Scripture, and this means that Christians should stop their furtive glancing from side to side, and simply acknowledge that it is high time for us to recover the lost virtue of sexism.
But what would such a recovery look like? How might we recover our sexist heritage? How shall we know when we have recovered it? The heart and soul of a restored sexism is to recognize that God created men and women with different natures, and has commanded us to recognize those natures as different, and to treat men and women differently simply because they are men and women respectively.”
Amen and Amen Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson is absolutely right that “Sexism is certainly a sin against the gods of egalitarianism, but those gods are not gods at all“. And we as Christian need to stop reverencing these false gods that our culture worships. I have said many times that Western Civilization does indeed have a religion and that religion is Humanism. And Humanism like some pagan religions of old is polytheistic in that it has many gods. Some of those false gods are equality, education and the environment. If you are not willing to bow down to these gods, and if you speak anything against egalitarianism, higher education or environmentalism you are speaking blasphemy in many parts of the Western world today.
The sad part is that many Christians today believe they can worship the false gods of equality, education and environment and place their faith in humanity while at the same time claiming they worship and place their faith in the God of the Bible.
But our God is a jealous God and he will not tolerate the worship of other gods. In Exodus 34: 14 God says “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God”.
In the end we all have a choice. It is the choice that Joshua gave to Israel and it is the same choice we must give to America and the Western world today.
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
The Global Fertility Crash
“As birthrates fall, countries will be forced to adapt or fall behind. At least two children per woman—that’s what’s needed to ensure a stable population from generation to generation. In the 1960s, the fertility rate was five live births per woman. By 2017 it had fallen to 2.43, close to that critical threshold.
Population growth is vital for the world economy. It means more workers to build homes and produce goods, more consumers to buy things and spark innovation, and more citizens to pay taxes and attract trade. While the world is expected to add more than 3 billion people by 2100, according to the United Nations, that’ll likely be the high point. Falling fertility rates and aging populations will mean serious challenges that will be felt more acutely in some places than others…
Ultimately, no country will be left untouched by demographic decline. Governments will have to think creatively about ways to manage population, whether through state-sponsored benefits or family-planning edicts or discrimination protections, or else find their own path to sustainable economic growth with ever fewer native-born workers, consumers, and entrepreneurs.”
The statements above are not from some Christian blog like this one that advocates for women marrying younger and having more children. Instead, they actually come from a recently published article entitled “The Global Fertility Crash“, written by Andre Tartar, Hannah Recht, and Yue Qiu for Bloomberg Business Week.
The estimates always differ between various government sources around the world in certain details. They may disagree as to how much world population growth we will see in the next century. Some sources show we may only grow by 1 billion people or less in the next century before the world population begins to decline. Others show the world population may peak as early as 50 years from now.
But what all the studies agree upon is this. In countries where women get college educations and careers fertility rates plummet. In every single one of them. Is is a very simple equation that no one can deny.
Women + Higher Education + Career = Falling Fertility Rates
Some might say “that’s fine, the world population is too high and needs to lower”. That actually is not true, but let’s just go with that false premise. When the world population shrinks from 8 or 10 billion to 2 billion over the next few centuries is that OK? What about when it drops to 1 million? What about when it drops to 100,000?
And this ignores a fact that this Bloomberg Business Week article states that “Population growth is vital for the world economy“. This is just basic economics folks. Population decline leads to economic decline which then eventually leads to the fall of governments and civilizations if that decline continues.
You see when you have a problem that is causing the decline of your people at a certain point you must address that problem. And it will be addressed one way or the other.
It is an undeniable and indisputable fact that the fertility declines we see in Westernized nations are the direct result of women living their lives for higher education and careers instead of women living for the purpose for which God created them.
God did not say he made women to pursue education and careers and whatever made them happy. But rather the Bible tells us in the passage below what God created women for and also men:
“7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
1 Corinthians 11:7-9 (KJV)
God created man to image him, to live out his attributes, and thereby bring him glory. And he created woman for man to bring man glory in her service and submission to him as man brings God glory in his service and submission to God.
It really is that simple folks.
We have lost our way as an American and Western civilization.
The Bible is crystal clear that women are called, not to higher education and careers, but rather to “marry, bear children, guide the house” (1 Timothy 5:14) and to be “keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands” (Titus 2:5).
The West Needs to Turn from Love of Self and Pleasure to Love of God
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God“
2 Timothy 3:1-4(KJV)
This passage above from 2 Timothy is a perfect description of modern Western Civilization. Our Western cultures encourage self love and rampant individualism instead of encouraging behavior that is for the best of one’s family and one’s country. Blasphemy and children being disobedient to parents is common place. We have unthankful and envious societies. Mothers are without natural affection for their own unborn children and contract with doctors to murder their unborn children. Westerners are lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
Unless we turn from our rampant individualism and humanism and return to serving God and serving others instead of living only for ourselves our Western nations will fall.
The world has no answer to this problem of women having less children but the Bible does. Restore women to their place in the home and restore God’s design of patriarchy which served human civilization for 6000 years before the rise of Feminism in the mid-19th century.
Is the Red Pill Concept of the Male Imperative Biblical?
In the first two parts of this series “Is Red Pill Biblical?”, we established the fact that some observations in Red Pill do indeed match with Biblical teachings on gender roles. We also showed that Red Pill is not just objective intersexual behavioral theory even though its most vocal advocates would like to think it is. While Red Pill is built on observations of nature, specifically human biology and behavior, it also interweaves these findings with its own philosophy and its own moral judgements as to how we should act based on these observations.
Now that we have looked at Red Pill from a very high level we will dive into more of the specific concepts in Red Pill starting with the Red Pill concept of the Male Imperative.
What is the Red Pill Concept of the Male Imperative?
Rollo Tomassi wrote an article for his Red Pill blog, TheRationalMale.com, entitled “The New Paternity”. In that article he states that “Men’s biological, masculine, imperative is to spread the seed – unlimited access to unlimited sexuality”. In “Pseudo-Virginity” he writes that men have “polygynous sexual strategy”.
Tomassi writes in “Women & Sex” , “One of the single most annoying tropes I read / hear from men (more so than women) is the “Women are just as / more sexual than men” canard… Patently false. A healthy male produces between 12 to 17 times the amount of testosterone a woman does. It is a biological impossibility for a woman to want sex as much as, or as often as men. Trust me, when a woman says, “I don’t understand why sex is so important to guys” she’s speaking the literal truth”.
And in “The Truth About Standards”, Tomassi states “Men are so motivated by sexual experience that it supersedes the need for food. Research shows brain cells specific to men fire up when mates are present and override the need to eat. Take this as you will, but it does reinforce the idea that for men, sex is in fact a biological need”.
So, to summarize what Tomassi has stated, Red Pill teaches that the Male Imperative is for a man to spread his seed to as many women as possible and as a direct result of this men are polygynous in their sexual strategy. And a man’s sex drive is more than 10 times what a woman’s sex drive is and it is a biological need.
Is the Male Imperative Biblical?
Some people wrongly think a need is only something you will die from if you do not meet it but this is untrue. There are many human needs that left unmet will not kill us, but they will indeed cause greater or lesser psychological damage depending on the person. Some men, if their sexual needs are not met, will lash out and commit rape or other wrong actions.
The Bible agrees with Red Pill that sex is indeed a need unless a man or woman have the gift of celibacy as seen in the Scripture passage below:
“7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”
1 Corinthians 7:7-9 (KJV)
In the follow passage speaking to the needs of women, God compares a woman’s need for sex to that of her need for food and clothing:
“10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.”
Exodus 21:10-11 (KJV)
Would a woman physically die from not having food? Certainly. Would a woman die from not having clothing and being constantly exposed to the elements? Probably. Would a woman physically die from not having sex with her husband? Not at all. But yet it is still shown as a need for a woman to have sex with her husband. Why? Because while she may not physically die from not having sex with him, her intimacy with her husband would certainly die and this could in fact end the marriage as God allowed.
But then God goes even further when speaking of a man’s need for sexual relations with his wife in the following passage:
“15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well… 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.”
Proverbs 5:15 & 18-19 (KJV)
God built a much greater need for sex in the masculine nature than in feminine nature. Rather than comparing a man’s need for sex to the human need for food like the Bible does for a woman, instead the Bible compares a man’s need to for sex to the human need for water.
With a constant supply of water, a human being can go 60 days to 70 days with no food. However, the average human being can only go four to seven days without water. The human body is made up of 60 percent water. Our cells, our joints and every organ in our body needs water to operate.
Just as water is a fundamental driving force in the human body, so too sex is a fundamental driving force in the masculine human nature.
Tomassi is absolutely correct that while women need sex too, a woman can never truly grasp the substantially greater physical and psychological need for sex in men.
The Bible also agrees with Red Pill that men have a polygynous sexual nature and the drive to “spread the seed” to as many different women as possible. And this polygynous sexual desire in men is not a corruption of the masculine nature by sin as many Christian teachers and preachers have falsely claimed over the centuries.
The Bible shows that God blessed and rewarded Leah for giving her servant girl to her husband as another wife. God allows for polygamy and sets rules for its practice in Exodus 21:10-11, Deuteronomy 21:15-17 and Deuteronomy 25:5-7. God warns kings against multiplying wives or hording wives in Deuteronomy 17:17 but tells King David in II Samuel 12:8 that he gave him the wives of his master (King Saul) and would have given him many more wives. In Ezekiel 23:1-5 God pictures himself as polygamist husband to two women – the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. And in the New Testament in Romans 10:19 God says he is taking on a new bride the form of the New Testament church to make his first wife, the nation of Israel, jealous so that she might return to him one day.
So, as we can see from an abundance of the Scriptures, polygamy is not sinful corruption of the masculine nature but it is in fact by God’s design.
For more on subject of polygamy and answers to objections some Christians may still have to it, see my series “Why Polygamy Is Not Unbiblical” .
What the Bible says About Man’s Sexual Nature that Red Pill Does Not
A fundamental flaw of Red Pill, one which we will continually remind the reader of, is that it takes an evolutionary approach to analyzing human biology and behavior. Red Pill’s natural science approach to analyzing human behavior and biology as it currently exists can reveal interesting facts about human beings. But once they get into evolutionary science, which is a forensic science, they are just guessing in the wind.
This is where the Bible offers something Red Pill cannot. Red Pill using scientific analysis of human biology and behavior can often (but not always) tell us the “What” of human behavior and biology but it can never provide us with the “Why”. Only the Bible can do this.
The Bible reveals to us that the male sexual nature is about much more than reproduction. In fact, while the Bible commands us to “Be fruitful, and multiply” it never tells us that God made sex primarily for reproduction.
The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 11:7 of the male human being that “he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man” and then in verse 9 of that same chapter it says “Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man”. God created man to image him, to display or live out his attributes with his life. And this is why God made woman. Man needed someone upon which to play out the image of God in him. He needed someone to love, lead, provide for and protect as God exhibits these attributes.
Another attribute of God’s nature is that he longs to be one with his people. Man’s desire for sexual union with woman helps him to live out this aspect of God’s nature.
But there is still one more aspect of God’s nature that many Christians throughout the centuries have ignored or just plain denied due to their ascetism. And that aspect of God’s nature is that he actually seeks out and enjoys pleasure.
The 8th century theologian John of Damascus wrote “But God, Who knoweth all things before they have existence, knowing in His foreknowledge that they would fall into transgression in the future and be condemned to death, anticipated this and made “male and female,” and bade them “be fruitful and multiply.” What he was saying is that God only created the male and female sex organs knowing that sin would enter the picture and they would need some way to reproduce. In other words, sex in human beings, and by extension sexual pleasure, was a result of sin in human beings and never God’s perfect intention.
Such a position is of course not supported by the Scriptures. If sex in human beings was only an allowance by God for reproduction because of sin, then God would never have commanded men to satisfy themselves sexually with their wives’ bodies in Proverbs 5:18-19 nor would he have given us the entire book of the Song of Solomon which is dedicated to sexual love in marriage.
The Bible tells us God’s desire for the beauty of his people when it states in Psalm 45:11 “So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him”. And in Psalm 149:4 we read “For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation”.
So, man’s sexual desire toward woman does not just display God’s desire for oneness with his people, but it also fully displays God’s desire for the beauty of his people and his desire to take pleasure in his people.
The Corruption of Man’s God Given Polygynous Sexual Nature
We have just shown from the Bible how a man’s desire to take pleasure in the beauty of and bodies of women is a reflection of God’s nature within him. However sin corrupted the masculine nature as God originally designed it. And one of the ways sin corrupts man’s God given polygynous sexual nature is by tempting men to become whoremongers and adulterers.
And this is why the Bible warns that God will punish men if they act on this corruption of their sexual natures when it states in Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge“.
God also shows that men can allow their sexual nature to control their lives causing them to make wrong decisions. In Proverbs 6:26 the Bible states “For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life”. A man can literally be led to the slaughter by his sexual nature if he allows it to happen.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 states “And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her”. And this is why men are exhorted to flee from this temptation and escape the corruption of their sexual nature which would enslave them to women.
Conclusion
The Bible would agree with Red Pill that sex is a much stronger need for men than women when it compares a man’s sexual desire to the human desire for water. The Bible would also agree with Red Pill that man’s sexual nature is polygynous.
But as we can see based upon the teachings of the Bible, man’s imperative is much more than simply reproduction. Instead the Bible reveals that man’s sexual desire is only a part of his larger true “imperative” which is to image God and live out or display all the attributes of God’s nature in his life.
And while God indeed created man with a polygynous sexual nature, he also intended for man to bond with each of the women he had sex with and be a husband to each of those women and a father to their children.
The next topic we will cover in this series is “Is the Red Pill Concept of the Female Imperative Biblical?“
Biblical Gender Roles 