Avi points out Debi Pearl's book will not allow a wife to set boundaries: Helpmeet P/3

                                       Rerad Part One HERE

In this post I will share comments made by Avid Reader on a book by Debi Pearl "Created To Be A Help Meet."

Avid Reader quotes from Debi Pearl's book as follows:

Debi: "Never demand a man love and cherish you because he ought to."

Debi: "Your husband will be selfish, he will be unkind... not respect your rights.... foolish... cruel.... actually walk in sin."

Debi: "In most marriages the strife is not because the man is cruel; it is because he expects obedience, honour and reverence and is not getting it. Thus he reacts badly."

Debi: "It is not God's will for your husband to reverence you."

Debi; "Dominance and control are always masculine characteristics."

Debi: "A woman's calling is not easy. To allow someone else to control your life is much harder than taking control of it yourself."

Debi: "When you obey your husband you obey God."

Debi: "The degree to which you reverence your husband is the degree to which you reverence your Creator."

Avid Reader quotes Debi's husband Michael as well as follows:

Michael: "Wives.... are not prone to be balanced or wise."

Michael: A husband has authority to tell his wife what to wear, where to go, whom to talk to, how to spend her time, when to speak and when not to, even if he is unreasonable and insensitive."

Michael: Many women disobey their husbands on grounds that they are obeying God instead."

Michael: "The wife is to obey her husband in all things."

I will add a more extensive statement from Michael Pearl here that is in line with his above statements:

"Has your husband reviled you and threatened you? You are exhortd to respond as Jesus did. When He was reviled and threatened, He suffered by committing Himself to a higher judge who is righteous. You must commit yourself to the one who placed you under your husband's command. Your husband will answer to od, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband even when he causes you to suffer. Just as we are to obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands".... You can feely call your husband "lord" when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as the Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities.... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessings, not just as a martyr but as one who worships God,"

According to Avid Reader:

"This book goes way off the deep end in  craziness but the root problem is that Michael and Debi Pearly are violating God's law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6:7-8). They want one spouse to sow to the flesh without reaping any consequences because they won't allow the other spouse to set any boundaries."

 

Read Part Four HERE