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NASB | 1 Peter 3:1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 3:1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate, not as inferior, but out of respect for the responsibilities entrusted to husbands and their accountability to God, and so partnering with them] so that even if some do not obey the word [of God], they may be won over [to Christ] without discussion by the godly lives of their wives, [Eph 5:22] |
Subject: How literal do we go? |
Bible Note: joyduncan I think your taking the Hollywood version of how women were treated in Judaism and later Christianity. Read Proverbs 31 and tell me the woman here was a Taliban woman. Read the stories of Mary and Martha or any of the women that followed Jesus as he travel throughout Israel and tell me they were Taliban women. Remember what we see in the middle east today is not the result of Judaism or Christianity but rather a man made religion Islam. Also know that women's condition did not sink to the state until nearly 500 years later when Islam was invented. We can't expect Jesus or Paul to address issues that never existed. Later we see nearly same conditions for women happen in Europe and America. Why ignorance of God's word. Men read a passage that said women should be silent, women should be in submission and that was enough for them. Had the same passages used men instead of women you would have seen how quick they would have been to put them rightly in context. :-) Again I think you view of slavery is through the eyes of Hollywood and cases of mistreatment. The word slavery to use means whips and chains, families torn apart, women raped and children abused. This is not slavery by rather man's abuse of another called slavery. All of that is clearly condemned in scripture. Read the scriptures on the treatment of slaves. On the issue of slaves neither Jesus nor his Apostles ever spoke against slavery only the mistreatment of slaves. In fact slaves are admonished to work and serve their master well in scripture. In some cases we call slavery good. In Germany after the war, the people in the neighboring towns were forced into slavery to clean up the Concentration Camps burying the death and cleaning up the filth. We call that good and justified it by saying now they can never deny it. The scriptures also speak against enslaving ourselves. Which is very common is society today. Anyone that has a mortage or loan is in fact enslaved to the lien holder. EdB |