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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Thw " Wives submit..." passage is one of the most misunderstood passages in the entire Bible--not only by skeptics, but by many purported believers.
As I have said in the past "Any (biblical) text without its context is a pretext."
This one is the same. The context puts a very different light on it. The context includes the command, " Husbands, love your wife, as Christ loved the Church". Christ's love for the Church led him to die for it. How many husbands love their wives in the same selfless way? Not many.
The "submission" is often portrayed as arbitrary as Capt. Bligh from Mutiny on the Bounty fame--where his word is never to be questioned.
The Biblical is far more balanced than critics want to accept.
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Nicely said MS.
People extract llittle snippets here and there and find what they want to hear.
I notice in the news today that both
The Atlantic and the
Washington Post had articles by authors stating that the main message of Jesus was socialism.
If you had a student read the 27 books in the NT or just the
Red Letters of Jesus, completely independent of one's religious views and the y concluded that he came to earth to promote socialism would you pass that student?
Come on, let's be honest. Is that the message of those 27 books?
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