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

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 three 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 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 2: 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 3: 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