This attitude of Julie’s was not new. Many years ago Julie planted a mango seedling. Being a seedling, the fruit it later bore was not of good quality, but it was still edible fruit. In its second fruiting year the tree was laden with little green mangos. I was then foolish enough to tell Julie I was going to make mango chutney from the fruit. The very next day Julie’s pastor arrived, accompanied with two workers. The workers immediately set to work cutting down the mango tree, and then continued to decimate and destroy every garden flower we had. When I complained I was told the property was registered as a private dwelling, and not a plant nursery. Therefore, no plants were to be allowed to grow on the land. Julie paid her pastor P5,000 for the destruction of property. Given that the workers’ pay was P250 each, her pastor did well. I should add here that Julie’s self ordained pastor IS her mother. She has an extremely exclusive church consisting of her immediate family, and her younger sister (Julie’s aunt). Julie’s parents live/ed by the Bible’s rules. It was reported to me later that Julie’s eldest brother was repeatedly thrown through the window, and severely beaten if he disobeyed. Her parents never spared the rod (Proverbs 13:24). 2 Corinthians 10:5 says we are to bring every thought into captivity. Julie’s parents rigorously enforced this commandment. Today, all of the children, and grandchildren are mindless, obedient morons. They have lost the ability to think for themselves. They live to obey the parent-grandparent.
Paul felt it necessary to expressly command husbands to love their wives, so he obviously never paid any credence to Jesus’ command, “To love one another” (John 13:34-35 and John 15:2), but he never made any command for a wife to love her husband, nor for a mother to love her children. Thus, Julie’s home is one totally devoid of any semblance of love. It is a home only of fear, thus ensuring Paul’s commandment, issued in Philippians 2:12 where the children are to Work out their “Own salvation with fear and trembling.
Jesus said in Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 that “You cannot serve God and mammon” without ever explaining what mammon is. Mammon is explained in 1 Corinthians 7:34 with the respective spouse being mammon. Paul says, “An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world--how she can please her husband.“
But in our case you can see the tragedy that will occur when a woman chooses to continue to serve God, INSTEAD of her husband. Jesus, Himself, gave the order “If ye love me, keep my commandments. “ (John 14:15, and John 15:10). Thus, we see that by lying, cheating, and stealing Julie was keeping Jesus’ commandments, all of which hinge on Colossians 3:20, Romans 13:1-5, and 1 Peter 2:13-16.
Jesus, knowing the end from the beginning, was then compelled to issue an astonishing commandment in Luke 14:26, when He said we are to HATE the father and mother. Obviously, He was not referring to the husband’s parents, since the husband had already walked out and abandoned them. No, He was referring to the in-laws, and His word, “hate” means to hate with a passion. I strictly adhere to that commandment, and will rejoice with the host of Heaven when the now ex-mother-in-law descends into Hell to join her husband!
I have already obtained a divorce, since even Jesus said “marital unfaithfulness” is a ground for divorce (Matthew 19:8). By obeying the Word of God, and obeying her parents IN ALL THINGS Julie was unfaithful to her husband. She chose God over mammon!
I have already found a replacement for Julie, and having seen the total sham that Christianity truly is, I have not been back in a church since I returned to the Philippines. The woman I am with is not a Christian. She lives according to morality, and I can trust her to the point that I gave her my bank PIN number. I could never trust Julie, because she is an extremely faithful Christian, and totally obedient to her parents.
I was brought up in a very strict Fundamentalist Pentecostal church in Melbourne, Australia. I remember how, about 45 years ago, a young unwed couple were caught kissing in the church foyer. Apparently, they had been spoken to previously about such behaviour. That night, without being actually named, their activity was brought to the attention of the entire assembly, and they were evicted from the church in accordance with Matthew 18:15-17. The following week eighty percent of the church’s young people were not present, and none ever returned. 2 Corinthians 6:14 demands we don’t marry outside the church.
The result was the prospective marriage pool for the remainder was very small, and unbeknown to anyone at the time, several of the young women who remained had been sexually abused, be it by family members, or outsiders. Very few of the remaining women were socially, or mentally equipped for marriage, but were able to successfully hide behind the church’s strict “no touch” rule. Men were not permitted to hold the ladies’ hands, or to give them a kiss. Spending any time alone together before being married was strictly forbidden.
I had the misfortune to marry one of those ill equipped young ladies. Due to her earlier abuse we returned from our honeymoon with her still a virgin. I did the right thing, and brought the problem to the church elders. I was counselled by the elders, and my wife was counselled separately by their wives. I learned later that my wife was told she didn’t have to enjoy sex, but she had an obligation to bear children. We had three children, all grown up today. After being married for only one month my wife suffered a serious burn accident in the kitchen. The treating doctor noticed other complications, not arising from the burns. We went to a doctor recommended by the church, who diagnosed pregnancy at only four weeks, using a blood test. That doctor then ordered there be no more sexual contact until three months after our first son was born. The pregnancy developed flawlessly, and we had a healthy son.
We later lost a child through miscarriage at 4 ½ months due to accidental food poisoning. When my wife became pregnant again I did not consult the church doctor, but instead took my wife to a Jewish doctor, and attempted to continue sexual activity after pregnancy was diagnosed. Complications set in almost immediately, and my wife spent six months in hospital before giving birth to a son eight weeks prematurely.
After the second son was born my wife was told that birth control was not necessary as complications would prevent another pregnancy. Fourteen months later the diagnosing doctor was proven wrong, and we had a daughter.
The same Jewish doctor attended this third pregnancy, and again complications set in immediately resulting in months of hospital confinement. I had attempted to engage in sexual relations after the pregnancy was diagnosed.
When our daughter was born the Jewish doctor ordered an immediate ligation which was carried out just one day after our daughter’s birth. Thus, when my wife told visitors from the church she was sore from the morning surgery they demanded to know what the surgery was for.
On our next attendance at church we were taken aside. It was then explained that the sin of Onan was not his refusal to raise a child in his brother’s name, but rather the act of deliberate unproductive sex. They then prophesied, or issued a curse, that I would never be allowed to enjoy the fruit of our sin, and we were evicted from the church in accordance with Matthew 18:17. This didn’t really affect me as I was working, and had workmates around me, but my then wife found herself with three children under the age of 4 years old, without any friends, or support. She also felt very guilty and dirty due to what she had done, and also blamed me for signing the authority for her to have the ligation.
She continued to go down very quickly and was admitted into a mental institution after attempted suicide where, apart from a short duration, during which a clever social worker pulled strings to get her out for the purpose of seizing the three children from me, she remains to this day. On paper we were married eleven years before the divorce, a divorce initiated by the wife after I gained legal custody of the three children after four years of hospitalisation, and acting on advice from doctors.
I met Julie in 1988 through a friend finder publication I subscribed to. By then I had been divorced for six years. I married her in February, 1990, and Jim was born the following December in Melbourne.
As soon as Jim was born Julie moved out of the bedroom to be with our son in accordance with what she claimed was Filipino tradition. We had very little intimacy from that time on. In October, 1992 I migrated to the Philippines where I learned that Julie’s extremely pious mother had refused her husband any form of intimacy for the past forty years so as not to fall victim to Onan’s Sin.
Julie’s mother destroyed every one of her children’s marriages by enforcing the ban on Onan’s Sin. In one case, she entered the house of her son while he was at work and his wife was out shopping. She searched diligently until she found a packet containing the contraceptive pill. When her daughter-in-law returned home she was immediately evicted, and her two children confiscated. The devastated woman had no-one to complain to, as her sister-in-law’s husband was the equivalent of being Assistant Commissioner of Police. Julie’s brother, being obedient to God’s law, would not oppose his parents, and never attempted to get his wife back. In that case, the wife was an orphan, meaning she was compelled to accept her husband’s parent’s control.
When Julie’s mother instructed her youngest son’s wife to sleep apart from her husband the woman seized her two young children and fled. If she had not, she would have suffered the same fate of having her children confiscated.
At least three times I did get Julie pregnant again, but each time her mother directed her to take pregnancy terminating drugs. That was not hard for her to do, as she also has a nephew who is a doctor.
Julie’s youngest sister, by then aged 45, stood up to her mother one day, and died of acute renal failure three months later. I believe she was poisoned, but the mother-in-law claimed it was because her daughter failed to produce enough honour, thereby changing Ephesians 6:2 to read, “ Honour your father and mother; (which is the first commandment with threat)”. She made it perfectly clear that any of her children who failed to comply with Colossians 3:20 could also expect to die very quickly.
A post-mortem (or autopsy) is only carried out at the directive of the parents. Obviously, if you are the killer, you will not ask for an autopsy. Within two hours of death in the Philippines the body is drained of blood, and pumped full of chemicals, any one of which would cause death. Julie’s mother committed the perfect crime.
Now, you can call the almost total prohibition on sex throughout my life as bad luck, or you can call that part of the prophesy/curse that was issued in 1977. The Bible claims, “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:24), but bitter experience has proven that is not true! The American pastor already referred to, bragged that he had a vasectomy with impunity, but now that I’m with a widow of twenty years, who herself lost her husband shortly after being ligated, I found God has removed the very ability to commit Onan’s Sin from me.
An examination of the Bible clearly shows that every time sexual contact was made a child was produced. Married couples did not even share the same bed so as to avoid the temptation of committing Onan’s sin. David, said to be a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22), maintained a harem so he could produce children with other women when one or more of his wives were already pregnant. Solomon, reputed to be the wisest man to ever live, would not sleep with his wives. He built a separate palace for his wives (2 Chronicles 8:11). He understood the severity of Onan’s Sin.
Churches throughout the Philippines are very pious, and rigidly adhere to Biblical laws. On the other hand, almost all Australian churches are heresies, and the last church I attend there was no exception. To begin with, very few women attend wearing feminine attire. The vast majority wear men’s attire, while some of the young ladies wear skirts so short as to be disgusting. Even though the 1970s was the height of the mini-skirt (no pun intended) not one of the female members of the Melbourne church would attend with a dress above the knee, and none wore men’s apparel. All were highly dignified, and all wore a hat.
Today, almost none of the ladies wear a hat in direct violation of 1 Corinthians 11:5 and 6.
Several churches have women frequently addressing men, and yet Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 2:11 and 12 “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.“
Now, before you jump in and claim that things are different now, consider Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow”, and Malachi 3:6, “I am the Lord, I change not”.
The American pastor I referred to claims I should apply hermeneutics to the entire Bible, and not the literal meaning of any verse. Strange, but when Jesus taught, He never said, “It is written XYZ, but it means ABC”. The Jehovah’s Witnesses apply hermeneutics to change Jesus from being “first born” to “first created”, and refuse life saving blood transfusions. Many others likewise change the Bible so that God never created the universe, or the earth. They formed of their own accord.
The Melbourne Church I attended had one simple motto, “God said it, I believe it, that settles it!” Therefore, if a parent demands that a child lie, cheat, and steal, that Christian child, according to Colossians 3:20, must obey!!! Likewise, just because Julie’s mother was shrewd enough to get a despicable self serving law passed by the Philippine government in accordance with Romans 13:1-5, that law must be complied with. It was enforceable through the courts that Julie deceive her husband, and according to Paul, that same law was instigated by God, and not by Julie’s mother.
Part "C" to follow...
Paul felt it necessary to expressly command husbands to love their wives, so he obviously never paid any credence to Jesus’ command, “To love one another” (John 13:34-35 and John 15:2), but he never made any command for a wife to love her husband, nor for a mother to love her children. Thus, Julie’s home is one totally devoid of any semblance of love. It is a home only of fear, thus ensuring Paul’s commandment, issued in Philippians 2:12 where the children are to Work out their “Own salvation with fear and trembling.
Jesus said in Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 that “You cannot serve God and mammon” without ever explaining what mammon is. Mammon is explained in 1 Corinthians 7:34 with the respective spouse being mammon. Paul says, “An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world--how she can please her husband.“
But in our case you can see the tragedy that will occur when a woman chooses to continue to serve God, INSTEAD of her husband. Jesus, Himself, gave the order “If ye love me, keep my commandments. “ (John 14:15, and John 15:10). Thus, we see that by lying, cheating, and stealing Julie was keeping Jesus’ commandments, all of which hinge on Colossians 3:20, Romans 13:1-5, and 1 Peter 2:13-16.
Jesus, knowing the end from the beginning, was then compelled to issue an astonishing commandment in Luke 14:26, when He said we are to HATE the father and mother. Obviously, He was not referring to the husband’s parents, since the husband had already walked out and abandoned them. No, He was referring to the in-laws, and His word, “hate” means to hate with a passion. I strictly adhere to that commandment, and will rejoice with the host of Heaven when the now ex-mother-in-law descends into Hell to join her husband!
I have already obtained a divorce, since even Jesus said “marital unfaithfulness” is a ground for divorce (Matthew 19:8). By obeying the Word of God, and obeying her parents IN ALL THINGS Julie was unfaithful to her husband. She chose God over mammon!
I have already found a replacement for Julie, and having seen the total sham that Christianity truly is, I have not been back in a church since I returned to the Philippines. The woman I am with is not a Christian. She lives according to morality, and I can trust her to the point that I gave her my bank PIN number. I could never trust Julie, because she is an extremely faithful Christian, and totally obedient to her parents.
I was brought up in a very strict Fundamentalist Pentecostal church in Melbourne, Australia. I remember how, about 45 years ago, a young unwed couple were caught kissing in the church foyer. Apparently, they had been spoken to previously about such behaviour. That night, without being actually named, their activity was brought to the attention of the entire assembly, and they were evicted from the church in accordance with Matthew 18:15-17. The following week eighty percent of the church’s young people were not present, and none ever returned. 2 Corinthians 6:14 demands we don’t marry outside the church.
The result was the prospective marriage pool for the remainder was very small, and unbeknown to anyone at the time, several of the young women who remained had been sexually abused, be it by family members, or outsiders. Very few of the remaining women were socially, or mentally equipped for marriage, but were able to successfully hide behind the church’s strict “no touch” rule. Men were not permitted to hold the ladies’ hands, or to give them a kiss. Spending any time alone together before being married was strictly forbidden.
I had the misfortune to marry one of those ill equipped young ladies. Due to her earlier abuse we returned from our honeymoon with her still a virgin. I did the right thing, and brought the problem to the church elders. I was counselled by the elders, and my wife was counselled separately by their wives. I learned later that my wife was told she didn’t have to enjoy sex, but she had an obligation to bear children. We had three children, all grown up today. After being married for only one month my wife suffered a serious burn accident in the kitchen. The treating doctor noticed other complications, not arising from the burns. We went to a doctor recommended by the church, who diagnosed pregnancy at only four weeks, using a blood test. That doctor then ordered there be no more sexual contact until three months after our first son was born. The pregnancy developed flawlessly, and we had a healthy son.
We later lost a child through miscarriage at 4 ½ months due to accidental food poisoning. When my wife became pregnant again I did not consult the church doctor, but instead took my wife to a Jewish doctor, and attempted to continue sexual activity after pregnancy was diagnosed. Complications set in almost immediately, and my wife spent six months in hospital before giving birth to a son eight weeks prematurely.
After the second son was born my wife was told that birth control was not necessary as complications would prevent another pregnancy. Fourteen months later the diagnosing doctor was proven wrong, and we had a daughter.
The same Jewish doctor attended this third pregnancy, and again complications set in immediately resulting in months of hospital confinement. I had attempted to engage in sexual relations after the pregnancy was diagnosed.
When our daughter was born the Jewish doctor ordered an immediate ligation which was carried out just one day after our daughter’s birth. Thus, when my wife told visitors from the church she was sore from the morning surgery they demanded to know what the surgery was for.
On our next attendance at church we were taken aside. It was then explained that the sin of Onan was not his refusal to raise a child in his brother’s name, but rather the act of deliberate unproductive sex. They then prophesied, or issued a curse, that I would never be allowed to enjoy the fruit of our sin, and we were evicted from the church in accordance with Matthew 18:17. This didn’t really affect me as I was working, and had workmates around me, but my then wife found herself with three children under the age of 4 years old, without any friends, or support. She also felt very guilty and dirty due to what she had done, and also blamed me for signing the authority for her to have the ligation.
She continued to go down very quickly and was admitted into a mental institution after attempted suicide where, apart from a short duration, during which a clever social worker pulled strings to get her out for the purpose of seizing the three children from me, she remains to this day. On paper we were married eleven years before the divorce, a divorce initiated by the wife after I gained legal custody of the three children after four years of hospitalisation, and acting on advice from doctors.
I met Julie in 1988 through a friend finder publication I subscribed to. By then I had been divorced for six years. I married her in February, 1990, and Jim was born the following December in Melbourne.
As soon as Jim was born Julie moved out of the bedroom to be with our son in accordance with what she claimed was Filipino tradition. We had very little intimacy from that time on. In October, 1992 I migrated to the Philippines where I learned that Julie’s extremely pious mother had refused her husband any form of intimacy for the past forty years so as not to fall victim to Onan’s Sin.
Julie’s mother destroyed every one of her children’s marriages by enforcing the ban on Onan’s Sin. In one case, she entered the house of her son while he was at work and his wife was out shopping. She searched diligently until she found a packet containing the contraceptive pill. When her daughter-in-law returned home she was immediately evicted, and her two children confiscated. The devastated woman had no-one to complain to, as her sister-in-law’s husband was the equivalent of being Assistant Commissioner of Police. Julie’s brother, being obedient to God’s law, would not oppose his parents, and never attempted to get his wife back. In that case, the wife was an orphan, meaning she was compelled to accept her husband’s parent’s control.
When Julie’s mother instructed her youngest son’s wife to sleep apart from her husband the woman seized her two young children and fled. If she had not, she would have suffered the same fate of having her children confiscated.
At least three times I did get Julie pregnant again, but each time her mother directed her to take pregnancy terminating drugs. That was not hard for her to do, as she also has a nephew who is a doctor.
Julie’s youngest sister, by then aged 45, stood up to her mother one day, and died of acute renal failure three months later. I believe she was poisoned, but the mother-in-law claimed it was because her daughter failed to produce enough honour, thereby changing Ephesians 6:2 to read, “ Honour your father and mother; (which is the first commandment with threat)”. She made it perfectly clear that any of her children who failed to comply with Colossians 3:20 could also expect to die very quickly.
A post-mortem (or autopsy) is only carried out at the directive of the parents. Obviously, if you are the killer, you will not ask for an autopsy. Within two hours of death in the Philippines the body is drained of blood, and pumped full of chemicals, any one of which would cause death. Julie’s mother committed the perfect crime.
Now, you can call the almost total prohibition on sex throughout my life as bad luck, or you can call that part of the prophesy/curse that was issued in 1977. The Bible claims, “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:24), but bitter experience has proven that is not true! The American pastor already referred to, bragged that he had a vasectomy with impunity, but now that I’m with a widow of twenty years, who herself lost her husband shortly after being ligated, I found God has removed the very ability to commit Onan’s Sin from me.
An examination of the Bible clearly shows that every time sexual contact was made a child was produced. Married couples did not even share the same bed so as to avoid the temptation of committing Onan’s sin. David, said to be a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22), maintained a harem so he could produce children with other women when one or more of his wives were already pregnant. Solomon, reputed to be the wisest man to ever live, would not sleep with his wives. He built a separate palace for his wives (2 Chronicles 8:11). He understood the severity of Onan’s Sin.
Churches throughout the Philippines are very pious, and rigidly adhere to Biblical laws. On the other hand, almost all Australian churches are heresies, and the last church I attend there was no exception. To begin with, very few women attend wearing feminine attire. The vast majority wear men’s attire, while some of the young ladies wear skirts so short as to be disgusting. Even though the 1970s was the height of the mini-skirt (no pun intended) not one of the female members of the Melbourne church would attend with a dress above the knee, and none wore men’s apparel. All were highly dignified, and all wore a hat.
Today, almost none of the ladies wear a hat in direct violation of 1 Corinthians 11:5 and 6.
Several churches have women frequently addressing men, and yet Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 2:11 and 12 “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.“
Now, before you jump in and claim that things are different now, consider Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow”, and Malachi 3:6, “I am the Lord, I change not”.
The American pastor I referred to claims I should apply hermeneutics to the entire Bible, and not the literal meaning of any verse. Strange, but when Jesus taught, He never said, “It is written XYZ, but it means ABC”. The Jehovah’s Witnesses apply hermeneutics to change Jesus from being “first born” to “first created”, and refuse life saving blood transfusions. Many others likewise change the Bible so that God never created the universe, or the earth. They formed of their own accord.
The Melbourne Church I attended had one simple motto, “God said it, I believe it, that settles it!” Therefore, if a parent demands that a child lie, cheat, and steal, that Christian child, according to Colossians 3:20, must obey!!! Likewise, just because Julie’s mother was shrewd enough to get a despicable self serving law passed by the Philippine government in accordance with Romans 13:1-5, that law must be complied with. It was enforceable through the courts that Julie deceive her husband, and according to Paul, that same law was instigated by God, and not by Julie’s mother.
Part "C" to follow...
