CLINICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES - EQUALLY YOKED COUPLESHIPS - Liberal Arts and Humanities

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• Equally-yoked Couples

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Equally Yoked

• Described as Extraordinary and rare and
  even a Gift of G-d
• are Religious couples with a like Civil
  identity
• Jerusalem, Israel, 1970

RELIGIONS 101
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(the study of the minds of such a unique couple)
(a special focus is on religion and spirit)
( concerned with civil rights and human rights)
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Civil Identity1
Civil Identity2

• Ethnicity
• Politics
• Religion
• Race
• Color
• Age
• Sex Female
• Sexual (pleasure preference) Orientation
• Marital status

• Ethnicity
• Politics
• Religion
• Race
• Color
• Age
• Sex Male
• Sexual (pleasure preference) Orientation
• Marital status

Civil Identity is actually a unique mosaic of
ones present Ethnicity, Political Party, Race,
Color, Religion, Disability, Sex, Sexual
(Pleasure Preference) Orientation, Marital
Status, Family Status, ..
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A Biopsychosociocultural Instrument
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• Race
• Color
• Religion
• Disability
• Age
• Sex
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• Marital Status
• Familial Status

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• nearly equal
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God should be first

• In a small study, equally yoked couples were
  surveyed and unequally yoked couples were
  surveyed. Who should be first in one another
  lives.? Results the Equally yoked couple
  tended to agree slightly more so than the
  unequally yoked couples that God should be
  first in one anothers lives.24

U.S.A.
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Equally Yoked - Theolograms
Nonequally yoked
(deliberate)
Equally yoked
Inequally yoked
Unequally yoked
(compensative)
(naïve, innocent, gullible)
NOTE The full range of human coupleship
experience also includes the anti-equally yoked
(who are the actively rebellous counterculture)
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a higher desire to grow

• One smaller on campus study showed that equally
  yoked couples revealed a higher desire to develop
  and encourage each other to grow towards God then
  did the unequally yoked couple.1

U.S.A., 2001
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roles in marriage

• A study amongst graduates off campus revealed
  that Equally yoked Couples scored higher levels
  of understanding than did unequally yoked
  couples concerning roles (about one anothers
  roles in their marriage).5

U.S.A., 2002
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vision and roles

• In equally yoked dyads multiple small
  studies showed that one anothers vision for
  marriage and the role that each individual in
  that dyad was to play actually scored higher in
  clarity than that of individuals in unequally
  yoked dyads.7

U.S.A., 2001
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deeper understanding

• Couples were surveyed about sharing with one
  another their understanding of Jesus, of
  compassion, and of love were divided into two
  groups those equally yoked and those
  unequally yoked by modern and standard Biblical
  definitions. What the survey found was that those
  with a deeper understanding of Jesus, of
  compassion, and of love more significant in the
  equally yoked when compared to those who were
  unequally yoked.18

Armenia, 2004
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commitment

• Several small studies have proven that equally
  yoked coupleships have higher levels of
  commitment to helping one another, i.e., SoPs
  (Significant other Persons) who are in those kind
  of coupleships when compared to a variety of
  unequally yoked couples.6

U.S.A., 2001
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family and child rearing

• One study that inquired, do equally yoked
  couples or unequally yoked couples have more of a
  clear understanding of family and child rearing?
  The results of the study showed that unequally
  yoked couples have an understanding was more
  skewed and distorted while the equally yoked
  couples have more of an understanding of family
  and child rearing and was one of proven
  clarity.15

Tonga, 2006
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encourage and contend

• A small research study has proven that equally
  yoked couples tend to encourage without
  contention, one another, towards healthy living
  purposefully by decisions and free choices.8

Tuvalu, 2000
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dreams come true

• A study having to do with dreams.. Produced
  interesting results Equally yoked couples and
  unequally yoked couples scored about the same
  with respect for having a clear understanding
  of what it will take to help one anothers dreams
  come true.9

Zambia, 2005
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core values

• Research reveals that core values, i.e., about
  faith, family, finances, and future differ
  greatly between couples who have been identified
  as either equally yoked compared with those who
  are identified as unequally yoked.10

Monaco, 2001
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time spent daily

• A series of research studies have shown to date
  that those couples who are considered equally
  yoked when compared to those who are unequally
  yoked do spend a differing amounts of time in
  the home in daily devotionals and worshipping God
  in public together. Equally yoked couples
  tended to spend more time in daily devotionals.
  Also, most studies were unclear if unequally
  yoked couples actually spent more time together
  in public worship.17

Argentina, 2001
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emulateJesus

•  One very small study on a Christian college
  campus showed that unequally yoked couples and
  equally yoked couples both wanted to emulate the
  character of Jesus scoring about the same-almost
  equally. Note the equally yoked couple score
  slightly more-not significant.

Malta, 2000
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...more compassionate

• An extensive study online study questionnaires
  answered among individuals who were in an
  equally yoked relationship proved they were
  more compassionate then those who were in an
  unequally yoked relationship. Actually,
  unequally yoked individuals tended to cover up
  the others errors cover for them.11

Liechtenstein, 2011
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Religious Secular
Comparison

• Equally Yoked
• Created by God
• ..therefore, its Gods will
• Its an inherent part of the plan of human
  salvation
• A sacred relationship
• An abiding in true, good, and human right doing
• Sanctification
• Matched by more than just civil identity1

• Equallyoked
• The foundation of forming a proper dyad
• A duty to society
• Equal/or similar civil identities for the best
  psychosocial wellbeing
• Good citizenship/ abiding in social mores
• A foundation for the pursuit of happiness1, 2

- HUMANITIES Religious Studies
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encouraged one another

• In a worldwide meta-analysis of equally yoked
  versus unequally yoked couples equally yoked
  couples significantly encouraged one another
  more while unequally yoked couples nagged and
  complained more trying to make the other get
  better.12

Iceland, 2003
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prior to marriage

• A study in social psychology investigating
  marital couples - whether during courting that
  a couple clearly understood the difference in a
  couple being equally yoked or unequally yoked
  and was it discussed prior to marriage. Equally
  yoked scored better than unequally yoked
  couples.13

Georgia, 2008
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Bible doctrine

• Equally Yoked
• Couples
• Do you encourage each other in the same Bible
  doctrine?
• Is your understanding of Bible doctrine different
  then yours?
• 89, YES 91 YES

• Unequally Yoked
• Couples
• Do you encourage each other in the same Bible
  doctrine?
• Is your understanding of Bible doctrine different
  then yours?
• 44, YES 79 YES

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in a ministry together.

• A few studies that were done on campuses surveyed
  whether an equally yoked couple or an unequally
  yoked couple shared similar passions for a
  ministry and/or actually worked together in a
  ministry. The results were The equally yoked
  couple shared more passion and time in the same
  ministry than the unequally yoked couple.20

United Kingdom, 2013
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Do you pray together?...

• Equally Yoked
• Couples
• Do you pray together?
• 99.9 YES

• Unequally Yoked Couples
• Do you pray together?
• 51 YES

Denmark, 2012
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jealousy

• In a study concerning jealousy unequally yoked
  couples scored more incidents of jealousy
  throughout the 7 day week while equally yoked
  couples identified within the very same study
  scored few to none in general.3
• Another study showed that no jealous existed at
  all with other relationships in equally yoked
  couples who encouraged one another in their
  relationship with God.4

U.S.A.
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whats the difference

• Couples were asked in chat rooms i.e., a broad
  based (cyberspace) via Internet questionnaire
  whether they are informed of the differences in
  equally yoked and unequally yoked
  coupleships, and if they attended a supplemental
  spiritual orientated marriage seminar or
  conferences together? Unequally yoked couples
  100 NO!

Costa Rica, 2002
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Sound Doctrine

• Equally Yoked is solidly orthodox conforming
  to Gods word as biblical truth and sound
  doctrine. 1
• - Sins of the Holy Bible?, Rabbi C. Christianson
• The gospel of Jesus is a sacred trust after
  the cross, unequally yoked became false
  doctrine. 1, 2
• - Why Jesus Died for Me, Pr. L. Wooton
• Choosing an equally yoked coupleship sealed
  the pair for eternity, then, as it does today 1,
  2
• - Sermon notes, Rev. L. Johnson

RELGION 101 Sound Doctrine
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in the word of God.

• A larger study on Christian campuses in the U.S.
  found that couples (either courting, engaged, or
  married) who were equally yoked compared to
  those unequally yoked spend about the same
  amount of time daily studying the word of God.19

USA, 2000
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The Lord Sets things in Order

• Darkness
• Abomination
• Twisted/lies
• Careless fools
• Wrong doing
• Sex idol (of devil)
• Hellacious

• Light
• Wisdom
• Salvation
• True doctrine
• Carefree joy
• Righteousness
• The law of God
• Eternal Life

Equally Yoked
Unequally Yoked
RLGNS 101 Light and Darkness
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success

• A randomized study of unequally yoked couples
  was compared to identified equally yoked couples
  concerning what success meant to each of the
  individuals within the coupleship - the results
  were that the Unequally yoked coupless
  understanding and definitions of success
  focused more on corporations and monetary wealth.
  While equally yoked couples yielded resulted with
  high levels of personal values satisfaction,
  financial stability, and outcomes related to
  social benefits.15

U.S.A., 2000
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Equally Yoked?

• A Couple with the Same Civil Identity with a
  mutual focus on Same Religion and the Same
  Spirit especially.

II Corinthinans 614-18
Theological Concepts Religion and Spirituality
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up-to-a-point

• According to the YerkesDodson law, i.e., an
  empirical relationship exists between arousal and
  performance, (R. Yerkes and J. Dodson, 1908), as
  applied to couples who choose to be equally
  yoked - do so, but, only up to a point. A
  therapist can inform a client about the benefits
  of equally yoked coupleship and it still is the
  couples free choice to actually couple-up -
  increasing mating behaviour and their mental
  competence.
• Dr. . DrPsy
• Clinical Psychologist

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