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• Go For The Gold
  ...r Letters on the subject of children, motherhood, fatherhood, families and marriage, the classic Letters such as: "What Is That in Thy Hand?" (ML #315); "Real ...the men and women of faith that He desires. (Note: More on the subject of marriage is covered later in this GN, and excerpts of the above-mentioned prophecies
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• Houston Chronicle: Children of God Cult Returns as The Family
  ...ey say they no longer have sex with persons outside The Family; monogamous marriage (with only a few exceptions) is the rule; homosexuality is banned; the age
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• Activated
  ...or less controversial, topics such as faith, prayer, success with people, marriage and parenting.
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• Merry Jolene Berg
  ...y him on her … At one point they went through a mock celebration of marriage. Maria was fully aware of what was happening."''  — [[Judgment o
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• Berg on Incest
  ...xually if we are so inclined. For as you know, there is sex in Heaven! Not marriage, we shall be like the angels of God, but angels had sex with the daughters ...ar in the Bible, but there are plenty of man’s laws against it, even the marriage of first cousins! Incest has been known to bring out either the strengths o
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• The Devil Hates Sex
  ...ws and ceremonies and expenses and everything to finally get around to the marriage bed! ...zed-from birth countries against sex and against anything outside of legal marriage!) In Franco Spain! (Maria: And where the people were about as much on the o
  70 KB (12,746 words) - 08:27, 6 December 2007
• No Regrets
  ...ollect by her on him. At one point they went through a mock celebration of marriage. Maria was fully aware of what was happening. ===Law of Love and the Marriage of the Generations===
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• Hugo Westphal
  ...e until their divorce in 1994, his "marriage" to "Genesis" was not a legal marriage.</ref> to "[[Genesis]]". When it was discovered that their baby's skull was
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• Lurana Nolind Berg
  ...ref>[http://www.epcounty.com/clerk/marriagesearch.htm El Paso County Clerk Marriage Records Search], accessed 2006-11-09. <br> ''TX Marriage License Applications [1966-2003] Detail Lookup'', [http://www.publicdata.co
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• Complete Judgment of Lord Justice Ward
  ...nsidered against certain Family practices I have heard so much about. This marriage was not a happy one. The Plaintiff and her husband separated in 1981 and we ...inful. In 'One Wife' the theme that sexual relations outside of monogamous marriage could be permissible, was such a revolutionary view, except to the leaders
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• Life with Grandpa - the Mene Story
  :"At one point they went through a mock celebration of marriage. Maria was fully aware of what was happening." ...ollect by her on him. At one point they went through a mock celebration of marriage. Maria was fully aware of what was happening.
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Rage turns to vengeance against "Family"
  Rodriguez and Manumel tried to settle down in Seattle, but their marriage wasn't working.
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• San Francisco Chronicle: Escaping a Free Love Legacy Children of God sect hopes it can overcome sexy image
  ...husbands and wives. "God will have no other gods before Him, not even the marriage god!," Berg proclaimed. "Partiality toward your own wife or husband . . . s
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• Endtime
  # [[Marriage Supper of the Lamb]]
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• Our Replies To Allegations Of Child Abuse
  ...econcile the established churches' teaching regarding love and sex outside marriage with our experience of deeply caring and loving relationships outside of ma
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• None of These Things Move Me!
  ...world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage” (Luk.20:35). ...on to a different subject: There have been rumors circulating about the “marriage of the generations,” that it was canned as a result of complaints from th
  187 KB (33,656 words) - 00:57, 6 June 2005
• Falsely Accused and Jailed in Argentina
  ...e. She is now fighting her drug addiction, and wants to restore her broken marriage. It's so touching to see her so happy at last! God bless her husband, who i
  118 KB (21,298 words) - 15:39, 24 January 2008
• Washington Post: 'The Family' and Final Harvest
  ...y of people object that The Family's "[[Law of Love]]" permits sex outside marriage and that the group once condoned a practice known as "[[Flirty Fishing|flir
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• Final Report on the Activities of the Children of God
  A former member of the Berg family (by marriage) testified that: ...volution, and she refused to marry the person whom they had chose for her (marriage in this sense is sleeping with another person). Sometime prior to this dec
  84 KB (14,145 words) - 00:50, 19 December 2007
• No Real Changes in the "Children of God" Cult
  ...would be considered not meeting someone's sexual needs even outside of the marriage union! We agree with his eulogists when they write that Berg "advanced some ...riage unit, period. Berg said that the prohibitions against sex outside of marriage are the result of the "perverted religious thinking and misinterpretation o
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• Children of God. Family of Love. The Family
  ...have not felt free to help each other [sexually] for fear it might require marriage if pregnancy occurs. That’s optional." (Berg 663:XI, pars 1, 2). ...ring of married couples with others "can be the secret to reviving [their] marriage." (GN 799, Zerby 3194:91).
  166 KB (29,530 words) - 00:35, 31 July 2012
• Guard Your Children!
  ...mother should be? Mating & betrothal doesn't count with the System, legal marriage & the same name, that's the only thing that counts, & with children of the
  60 KB (10,853 words) - 08:21, 6 December 2007
• The Professionals
  ...ristian churches that I know of in which premarital sex, or sex outside of marriage, is allowed. What that means is that in no other Christian church that I'm ...me instances, all other Christians--think are very worldly: sex outside of marriage, dancing, drinking, music, movies, etc. The point of our rules is to try to
  187 KB (34,397 words) - 00:24, 9 September 2005
• The Old Church and The New Church
  ...tercourse and they bear no children. Therefore is this hypocrisy and not a marriage. This is pretense and not love. ...hrough as by fire and they shall glorify Me and they shall enter in to the Marriage Feast of My Beloved. For I rejoice in her, delight in her&mdash;this, My Ne
  14 KB (2,736 words) - 01:31, 30 May 2005
• Christian Research Journal: Inside the "Heavenly Elite"
  ...sion, from "[[sharing]]" oneself sexually with others in the group to open marriage and polygamy, from "[[Flirty Fishing]]" (or FFing) -- proselytizing and fun ...e "like the angels of God in heaven," who "neither marry, nor are given in marriage" (Matt. 22:30). They have finally reached the "glorious liberty of the chil
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• Notice of my son Abe's graduation
  ...appiness, and purpose in his life. Yoko is saved, and they had a very good marriage.
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• Macleans: Not a normal family
  ...ex-for-salvation [[cult]] known as [[The Children of God]]. The couple’s marriage ended two years ago, but Borowick remains wedded to the cult. Articulate an
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• Hamilton Spectator: Cult includes brother of suspect woman
  Grant's marriage ended about 18 months ago when his wife left the group. She showed up sever
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• FSM 352
  funny things that happen in their marriage and their lives. They’re fun to be
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• FSM 353
  relationships outside marriage and the responsibilities of the giver and the
  123 KB (23,260 words) - 15:13, 5 June 2005
• FSM 356
  I improve in my marriage?” “Sometimes I take too long or can’t make up my mind,
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• Houston Chronicle: Prisoner of a cult
  ...two other children from her marriage to Pickus and three from her current marriage. ...ife, daughter and son-in-law, and they kept a tight rein on the followers. Marriage was encouraged, but the marriages were arranged.
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• Houston Chronicle: Group opens fund to reunite mother with her kidnapped son
  ...two other children from her marriage to Pickus and three from a subsequent marriage, has said she wants to bring her son to Houston, despite the fact he has be
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• Austin American-Statesman: Gathering Pieces of Shattered Lives
  ...seven years ago and moved to Texas shortly after, he said. It was a second marriage for each. They had four children in their "blended" family, ages 12, 14 and
  8 KB (1,405 words) - 10:12, 4 May 2006
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'Heaven's Harlot' looks back on Jesus freak days
  ...eds of many men who were part of the group, brought another woman into her marriage as a second wife for her husband, and had sex with men she met in the hopes ...applies. It says any sex between adults --- inside, outside or in spite of marriage --- is fine as long as it is done "in love."
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• My experience with Children of God/The Family
  ...ery important to look seriously at what you believe about sex and love and marriage and children. Your attitudes and feelings about these issues are a very imp ...t we could do to help. He said he had prayed and God showed him that their marriage might not be of God which was why their baby was always sick.
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• Tribunal de Menores de Mercedes - Cause number 32.202
  *Cause No. 317, 213. "In the matter of the marriage of Ruth E. Frouman and Cary L. Frouman and in the interests of EDF, PSF, DP
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• Philadelphia Inquirer: Church declines to aid sect accused of abusing children
  ...m his church at 43d and Chestnut Streets because they allow sex outside of marriage. He also cited recent charges that children living at Family-run facilities
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• Cause No. 317, 213 - Decree of Divorce
  *Cause No. 317, 213. "In the matter of the marriage of [[Ruth Frouman|Ruth E. Frouman]] and C.L. Frouman and in the interests o
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• Vivian Shillander
  By her own account her marriage to Richard Shillander was troubled from the start: ...lready a person under the control of a cult... From the very beginning our marriage was not good. There was no equality and he did not respect me at all... as
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• Mansfield News Journal: Controversial Children of God Sect 'Matures'
  ...vidence of sexual misbehavior. "They definitely believe in the sanctity of marriage," Richardson said. Whatever the assessments ot the Children of God's early
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• The Progress: Children of God Sect Grips Thousands of Parents
  ...d the Mo letters as advocating incestuous behavior and the non sanctity of marriage and family. This reporter phoned Derek at his commune in London, Ontario, t
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• Midwest Christian Outreach Journal: A Family Affair
  ...en bigger influence. Berg, like Mormons, taught that God has plural wives, marriage continues in eternity, the Incarnation was the result of sexual intercourse
  24 KB (3,984 words) - 05:38, 25 July 2005
• New York Times: Parents Join to Combat Radical Youth Sect
  ...not to communicate with her family since August, even to tell them of her marriage in September to a member named David Paul Senek, was her own. "I love my pa
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• Victims to Victors
  ...hing that “all things are lawful,” the supremacy of the COG group over marriage and the family, sexual freedom, and the use of sex in proselytizing (“[[F
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• Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of the Chosen One
  By midsummer, Berg had dumped Jane completely after twenty-five years of marriage. He signaled the shift in his teachings in a letter sent out to his followe ...cult. You're virtually inbred. You have no preparation for college or for marriage."
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• The Mirror: How we escaped the clutches of a cult
  ...cause of his drinking. Then we both discovered Christianity. It mended our marriage and we wanted to do much more than simply go to church on Sunday, so we joi ...one of the other women was like a knife through my heart. It destroyed our marriage.
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• Krounapple v. Children of God, David Brandt Berg, et. al. 77CV-11-4706
  ...ndants to see her husband and children, and are depriving Plaintiff of the marriage contract.
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• Make It Work!
  ...for The Family International's current policy and rules regarding sex and marriage.'') ==Make It Work!&mdash;Marriage Is God's Answer to Teenage Sex Problems!==
  62 KB (10,998 words) - 16:01, 16 July 2005
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: David Berg, founder of '60s `Jesus freaks,' dies in seclusion at 75
  ...senting adults is not a sin in the eyes of God, regardless of the bonds of marriage.
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