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1 | Is reverence feasible? Always? . . . | Eph 5:33 | Mommapbs | 65479 | ||
Greetings srchng! “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.” 1 John 4:18 I'm wondering how "perfect love casts out fear" in the relationship between men and women today? Perhaps when we see one another from God's perspective, we can truly be obedient to His Word. As believers desiring to be obedient to God's Word, we must shift our emphasis from following the LAW to following the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the ONLY WAY that we can really be obedient to God’s command to love honor or respect anyone. Apart from Christ, is anyone worthy of RESPECT or HONOR? Apart from Christ, can we ever truly LOVE? (Please read John 15:5) "Rabbi" Mark wrote: It was easy to deceive the woman in the garden. And it is easy to deceive the woman today. But if she is obedient to her husband and her husband is obedient to God -- that woman shall not be found in another transgression. There is a significant qualifier in the word "IF". Does God's Word give us permission to not obey IF the other person is not “obedient to God”? Does God express His commands this way: obey Me IF . . .? Please read Gen 3:6. Exactly WHERE was Adam, who “Rabbi” Mark claims was made to be "physically, emotionally and logically (he used the word spiritually in his post to me) superior" to Eve? ADAM WAS RIGHT THERE WITH HER (!) and he did not (as the “Rabbi” claims) "keep her from transgression." The only One who can keep me from transgression is Jesus! Mommapbs |
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2 | Is reverence feasible? Always? . . . | Eph 5:33 | srchng | 65542 | ||
Dear mommapbs, I can't see that it's clear in Gen 3:6 whether Adam was right there or not during Eve's temptation and sin. What is clear is that he kept neither her nor himself from transgression. You make a good point about perfect love casting out fear. I wonder, though, why wives are instructed to *fear* or *reverence* their own husbands. Along the same lines, it seems that either a wife or a husband doing what scripture prescribes would make the other's obedience to these instructions pretty much a cinch. Maybe that's part of the beauty of this - that none of us will do it perfectly all the time, but following the scriptural guide for our own end of the relationship makes it easier for the other to give to us what he/she ought to (what we want.) For the record, I agree that Rabbi Mark's physical, logical, emotional, *spiritual* superiority issue seems to go over the edge, yet there seems to be something about a husband's superiority, of whatever kind (I wonder if it's more or less simply a superior position that makes him accountable for family relationships, kind of like a *head self-sacrificer* as it were) that is relentless in the Eph 5 and 1Pet. 3 scriptures. Also, I don't see women as any more easily deceived than men, which seems to have been implied by Rabbi Mark's comment. Thank you for your help, I really do appreciate it! -srchng |
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