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1 | searching for the truth | 1 Cor 11:3 | JCrichton | 125278 | ||
Hi, FytRobert! noahalso, responded quite exacting! I just wanted to add: We concern ourselves with equality... did God not already said that we are all equal (for all are sinners); did He not make it clear that we are nothing but His dependents ("I am the vine...without me you can do nothing!"). He established one priesthood, one format for worship... we transgress by reinventing the Scripture on the basis of enhancing God's Word to the world's 21st century standard (homosexual clergy, homosexual marriages, hatred, racism, rampant gluttony; unbridled lust (sex, power, fame, youth, health, wealth...)... and while seeking to bring enlightenment to the Bible we blind ourselves to the world's depravity and violence because it allows females to perpetrate on themselves and the males the same madness to which they had been previously subjected by their male counterparts--how equal is that? Now, Christ equality is that the woman obey her husband and that the manlove his wife as his own body--that he be willing to give his life for her as Jesus gave His Life for the Church--how backwards is that? Respect and Love can only come from God, but we can only achieve this on His terms! God Bless! Angel |
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2 | searching for the truth | 1 Cor 11:3 | justme | 125292 | ||
JCriton: May I ask what scripture says a woman is to "obey" her husband? Thank you. justme |
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3 | searching for the truth | 1 Cor 11:3 | JCrichton | 125327 | ||
Hi, justme! The word “obey” may not have been transcribed from the original text but the phrase “subject to” and the idea of subordination (this of course according to God’s Way not ours) has been in several Biblical versions: Ephesians 5:22, 23, 24 Wives should be subject to their husbands as to the Lord, since, as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband head of his wife; and as the Church is subject to Christ, so should wives be to their husbands, in everything. It is common sense to think of the phrase “subject to” as: depending on or abiding in, etc… As I was typing my response the term “obey” happened to jump into the frame of thought and while the phrasing may not have been “politically correct,“ nonetheless, it is supported by the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: 2subject 1: owing obedience or allegiance to the power or domination of another This terminology, of course, does not mean that woman is subject to the whims of man. The Scripture is very precise, though somewhat confusing and ambiguous at times (yes, it is an oxymoron): the woman is subject to her husband while the man is to love his wife as he loves himself, even to the point of forfeiting his life to protect and serve his wife!: Ephesians 5:25, 33 Husbands should love their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her To sum up: you also, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself… And equality comes not from the woman usurping the man’s authority, but from God Himself!: 1 Corinthians 11:11-12 However, in the Lord, though woman is nothing without man, man is nothing without woman; and though woman came from man, so does every man come from a woman, and everything comes from God. We are equal in the Lord; yet, in matter of authority, God has made a clear pronouncement: 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I should like you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Please, do not be offended by definitions of words… and do not seek to find every single thought and word expressly transcribed (or is the catch word “transliterated?”) in the Bible. We lose so much when we indulge in disputes over semantics or origins of words or grammatical accidents or transliterations… Do we know with unequivocal exactness if our Lord spoke in only one language (Aramaic) or did He expressed Himself in the various languages of His environment (Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin…)? We should strive to obey our Lord’s command by being obedient to the Word, even when we think it is outdated or if some parts of it seem no longer fashionable! I leave you Peace--our Lord’s! God Bless! Angel |
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4 | searching for the truth | 1 Cor 11:3 | justme | 125458 | ||
J Crition: You are correct the word obey is not there. To be subject to means to set inorder. Obey is not even hinted to. In Bryan Chapell's book, EACH FOR THE OTHER, is a better more Scriptual based for the husband and wife, than what id often taught our young women and newly married. Thanks for the response. justme |
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