How to respond

That's ok sis. Jesus endured a lot of verbal abuse also for us. It's situations like these that form us into Christs image. We get a glimpse of his suffering at the hands of those who should have loved him.

The counsel Nehemiah6 and tourist shared from 1Pet.3 is stellar. Also,

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife....For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? 1Cor.714,16

It becomes clearer through suffering how much Jesus loved and loves us and God is making you like our great King.

You might consider reading Lee Strobel's book Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage. If you're not familiar with him he is a former atheist who's wife came to Christ long before he did and he put her through the same sort of thing that your husband is putting you through. He has since authored numerous books defending core doctrines of the Church with extra biblical evidences of the veracity of the Truth we believe.

As far as your concern about your husband having you committed, it is a near impossibility unless he could prove to a judge that you were A) an immediate threat to yourself (suicidal) B) an immediate threat to others (homicidal) C) completely incapable of caring for yourself.

Nope. He will naw on a bone or three or five for months, using every opportunity to badger me into submission. He doesn't get bored. He thrives off this and he gets mean. I wish he got bored with making me nuts but....

Hi Marie, so sorry you’re going through this I hope you’re alright.

First off, can you create a folder in your email to have his emails directed to that folder so you don’t have to see them when you get your regular emails?

Interesting the Tao is called The Way yet Jesus is The Way, The Truth and The Life

How to respond?

Just some suggestions:

—> In Faith. Faith in God, what He did for you, His ability to lead you into all truth and strengthen you, build you up.
—> Believing The Word of God, The Bible, what Jesus has done for you, His Promises. Jesus is right. Don’t believe lies, threats or false ways... not now you’ve found the truth and the truth is guaranteed to set you free. Keep hold of your Faith and belief, hear/read Truth on a regular basis, via The Word.
—> Prayer. Someone once said, pray so you don’t faint.. Spending time with God, esp in Prayer, even in quiet in His Presence is incredibly helpful.

Agree with other responses - it is a spiritual warfare, sometimes people close to us are used to discourage us from getting freedom in Christ.
Don’t be rattled by someone else’s bad behaviour.
Please Don’t let no one discourage you from learning about Jesus, The Father or The Holy Spirit. Or His promises to you!

Jesus loves you very much. Let Him show you personally just how much!

Have you heard of June Hunt or Patrick Doyle. They might help you. Jill Southern Jones also has a good video on ungodly control, worth checking out.

If someone gets violent (rabid) please don't hesitate to reach out for help, support, assistance.

Hope you’re ok. It’s late here I have to log off, but I’ll be thinking about you. Pray you are helped and protected and strengthened in the Lord, God Bless you

Sounds as though he has an abusive mindset. Such people rarely change. Introducing them to things you hope will affect them really never works. The core issue is typically they won't take responsibility for their words and actions.
The first step to change is admitting some things wrong. If someone never thinks they do anything wrong then theres no chance of them changing. That's why so few ever actually change.
And I'm guessing this behavior started well before you were into the bible. Thus it's not a spiritual attack but rather a continuation of the same behavior.
I'd suggest have a backup plan ready in case he ever becomes physical. Not all do, but it's always a possibility.

I'm grateful to have checked in here tonight. I'm grateful to all of you.

You might consider reading Lee Strobel's book Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage. If you're not familiar with him he is a former atheist who's wife came to Christ long before he did and he put her through the same sort of thing that your husband is putting you through. He has since authored numerous books defending core doctrines of the Church with extra biblical evidences of the veracity of the Truth we believe.

As far as your concern about your husband having you committed, it is a near impossibility unless he could prove to a judge that you were A) an immediate threat to yourself (suicidal) B) an immediate threat to others (homicidal) C) completely incapable of caring for yourself.

He preaches the tao to me and I'm the one who introduced him, hoping it would make him less controlling.

He wouldn't but thank you. Besides, it's beyond knowing how to respond or not respond now. Last night was vicious. I'm just trying to avoid him now. He's meaner than rabid dog.

I should print this out and reread it constantly. He's been so mean over the last two days and today my adult son started in. It's not about the bible anymore. That was just my vulnerable spot to invade my safe mental space. Now it's the narc and the flying monkeys and if it weren't for my 12yr old daughter, I might step into traffic. But, reading those verses again made me feel less isolated, less alone. I cannot type right because of the tears. So I'm going to write it all down, everything all of you are teaching and saying. I'm going to read it until it's memorized so I can survive my hell.

If he truly is narcissistic it’s no wonder he despises the Bible, and your passion. He completely understands that you have a new Master. The only people who find truth are those who look for it. Your husband doesn’t want Truth, he wants control. You can never win a debate against someone who chooses to not believe. For those who believe, no proof is needed. For those who oppose, no proof is sufficient.

If it were me, and I truly believed he was "meaner than a rabid dog" towards me, I'd leave the abusive marriage. If I didn't truly believe that, I'd stop calling him names, ignore his rants, and let him be him, while I do my thing.

If it were me, and I truly believed he was "meaner than a rabid dog" towards me, I'd leave the abusive marriage. If I didn't truly believe that, I'd stop calling him names, ignore his rants, and let him be him, while I do my thing.

I wanted to come back and apologize for my response to this post. You words here are exactly right. Your message is exactly right. I responded wrong because I was so busy being hurt and betrayed by him that I couldn't see my own stuff. I'm not saying I am seeing all my own garbage yet, but I think God and Jesus are working on me. Anyways, the venom that came out towards you was a refection of my fear and pain, not my anger and I am sorry.

Oh and that "something in this house", i mentioned is gone. My daughter senses it too. Our house isn't heavy with dark spirits amy longer.

My husband and I went through a very dark time. He believed I was cheating on him, and would not believe me when I told him I wasn't. It got ugly often, and I truly started to believe I was the things he claimed, even though I never cheated, nor wanted to cheat. I kept praying for God to change his heart: For Got to use me to change his heart: For God to make him see me in a new light, and so on... It wasn't until I changed my prayer to "God, change me", that things started to really change in my life.

I am not telling you that you need to do ALL the changing. Clearly he has things to work on, as did my own husband. And I am not even telling you to stay with him. That's not my place as that is between God, you and him. However, changing your payer, to focus your life on Christ will change so much in your life, that you will be AMAZED. Mountains will move.
Peace!!

Since I've been trying to learn the bible, my husband has challenging me on it, using every argument ever conceived of. He challenges the bible saying it's written by man only and that it contradicts itself. He goes after me like a rabid dog and I can't say anything because I don't know anything.

I'm tired of being harassed. What can I say to end the badgering? And I am not rebuking a demon out of him. He is a narcissist. He'll have me institutionalized.