Biblical Patriarchy

Source: The Independent

The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.

The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.

Backed by some of the world’s leading scientists, who say that it “waves a red flag” for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have “gender-bending” effects.

It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.

“This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat,” says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects of chemicals, who wrote the report.

Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has admitted that 99 per cent of them are not adequately regulated. There is not even proper safety information on 85 per cent of them.

Many have been identified as “endocrine disrupters” – or gender-benders – because they interfere with hormones. These include phthalates, used in food wrapping, cosmetics and baby powders among other applications; flame retardants in furniture and electrical goods; PCBs, a now banned group of substances still widespread in food and the environment; and many pesticides.

The report – published by the charity CHEMTrust and drawing on more than 250 scientific studies from around the world – concentrates mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in species ranging from the polar bears of the Arctic to the eland of the South African plains, and from whales in the depths of the oceans to high-flying falcons and eagles.

It concludes: “Males of species from each of the main classes of vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.

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“Almost invariably, when this occurs [revolt against taxation], the state will resort to the most vicious, the most destructive, the most hidden tax of all.  It will resort to the reprobate tax of inflation.  By doing so, it decapitalizes virtually all of society because it destroys the currency medium upon which society makes its economic decisions and judgements.  As the currency goes, so goes society and the state.  inflation is the final act in the state’s play at being God.  t is its final attempt to create wealth by fiat.  It is the primary claim by man that he can create material propserity ex nihilo (out of nothing) in the same manner that God created the world.  In the area of economics inflation is the ultimate claim of man that he can legislate whatever he desires into existence.  It is his claim of being God in the realm of political-economy.  And because it is one of man’s primary menas by which he claims to be God, it brings one of God’s most severe judgements upon man.  God’s wrath against such unrighteousness means the virtual destruction of man’s political, social, and economic structure.”

From Tithing & Dominion, pg. 58, by Edward A. Powell and R.J. Rushdoony

The basic definition of a patriarch is “the male head of family or tribe”, and is, in part, an accurate definition of what we embrace here at Joshuah’s House. The father and husband is the one who has been charged with the duty and responsibility to lead his family.

Another good definition of a patriarch can be gleaned from Wikipedia. We would replace “autocratic” with theocratic. …

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a composition of πατήρ (pater) meaning “father” and ἄρχων (archon) meaning “leader”, “chief”, “ruler”, “king”, etc.

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“The third characteristic of the Biblical law or covenant is that it constitutes a *plan of dominion* under God.  God called Adam to exercise dominion in terms of God’s revelation, God’s law (Gen. 1:26ff.; 2:15-17).  This same calling, after the fall, was required of the godly line, and in Noah it was formally renewed (Gen. 9:1-17).  It was again renewed with Abraham, with Jacob, with Israel in the person of Moses, with Joshua, David, Solomon (whose Proverbs echo the law), with Hezekiah and Josiah, and finally with Jesus Christ.  The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is the renewal of the covenant:  “this is my blood of the new testament” (or covenant), so that the sacrament itself re-establishes the law, this time with a new elect group.  *The people of the law* are now the people of Christ, the believers redeemed by His atoning blood, and called by His sovereign election.”

RJ Rushdoony, Vol. 1, The Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 8-9