Do you know what is submission?? Why you distort it's meaning.
God crated women to be submissive. But evil feminist bitches
are misguiding them.
You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything. (Ephesians 5:22-24 NLT)
2006-08-27 15:27:23 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
YES AMEN MY BROTHER!!!!
THEY SHOULD BUT THEY WONT BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO BUSY WATCHING MTV OR OR OUT PROSTITUTING ON SOME CORNER!!!!
TOO MUCH INFLUENCE BY THE HEATHENS.
GOD WILL CURSE THOSE WOMEN FOR NOT SUBMITTING TO THEIR LORD!!!!
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
2006-08-27 15:33:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 8⤋
The proper translation for submit, is respect. Where is your respect? You want to quote scripture? Fine, what about what husbands are to do? They are told to do a lot more than respect their wives! Eph 5:25-33.
Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands out to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery - but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each on of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Find me a man like that, and I will follow where he leads and I will respect him.
And until YOU become a man like that, do all us Christians a favor and stop offending people and in the name of Christ and twisting His word to further your own agenda.
Do you kiss your wife with that mouth?
2006-08-27 15:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by Deb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Husbands are to love their wives like Christ loves the church ...I heard a preacher say if a man is a real man of God then a Christan woman will follow but most men these days don't follow any Christ like ways so unfortunately women are the weaker vessel an we seem to fall because the stronger vessel (men ) has become weak this day an time .
2006-08-27 15:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by SANDY G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
22-24Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
25-28Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor—since they're already "one" in marriage.
29-33No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh." This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.
Eph 5:22-30 (The Message)
With THIS picture of submission? - hey - even I'm up for this one!
Jesus gives the church everything it needs... and then some. When husbands act like this - can wifes help but love them?
2006-08-27 15:35:36 · answer #4 · answered by Tish-a-licious 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being submissive DOES not mean being Bullied.
You quote a good text there, now look at Jesus as the example. How did he treat the congregation? Was he harsh? NO! he trusted them with tenderness and mildness. To say that text gives the right for husbands to dominate their wives is a misapplication.
Here is another good text "28 In this way husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself," Ephesians 5:28.
A husband has to treat his wife with love and tenderness and look after her as he would his own body. A man in his right mind would NOT abuse his body so if he abuses his wife he is not Christian
Notice this Text at 1 Peter 3:7 "7 YOU husbands, continue dwelling in like manner with them according to knowledge, assigning them Honor as to a weaker vessel, the feminine one, since YOU are also heirs with them of the undeserved favour of life, in order for YOUR prayers not to be hindered"
Husbands assign your wife HONOR.
Being submissive in the Biblical sense just means that the husband was given the responsibility of making the final decision after consultation with his wife not dominating her.
You can not use the Bible to abuse your wife.
2006-08-27 15:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by gordo_burns 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are correct, the Bible does instruct this, but you forgot the second part: Husbands, love and cherish your wives as your own flesh. Love your wives as Christ loves His bride, the Church.
The bible did not teach this so that men can go off on their big egos and pronouce themselves rulers. If anything, we are to follow this so that we can be better servants. To lead a household is a huge, HUGE responsiblity. This is what husbands are called for. Our responsibility is stewardship to our familites; service; servitude. Ask yourself, did Jesus come to be served? No, He came to serve. Jesus, God-made-man, humbled Himself and became human, something He did not have to do, and SERVED. If we are to follow Him, then we, too, must become servants; servants to each other in love and humility and sacrifice. This is our calling as husbands and fathers. How can you expect a wife to follow you if you do not follow Christ?
God bless.
2006-08-27 15:37:22 · answer #6 · answered by Danny H 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My brother, I assume you have read the rest of the passage?
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave Himself up on its behalf,
Eph 5:26 that He might sanctify it, cleansing it by the washing of the water in the Word,
Eph 5:27 that He might present it to Himself as the glorious assembly, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such things, but that it be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28 So, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies, (he loving his wife loves himself),
Eph 5:29 for then no one hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Lord the assembly.
Eph 5:30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
Eph 5:31 "For this, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh." Gen. 2:24
Eph 5:32 The mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ and as to the assembly.
Eph 5:33 However, you also, everyone, let each one love his wife as himself, and the wife, that she give deference to the husband.
If men would be men and love their wives as Christ loves the Church, Biblical submission wouldn't be a problem. Too many "men" use this passage to beat down their wives and believe they are to be their servants. In actuality, men are to hold their wives in the highest esteem, honor them, cherish them, like fine crystal. If the men would provide servant leadership, that is, giving of themselves to the wife and family, this would never be a problem.
2006-08-27 15:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the submissive that is truly in control.. or have YOU not figured that out yet.
To be someones Lord, Master, etc.. you best learn to use the head on your shoulders, not the one stuck between your legs..
Your lady is to be loved, adored, protected, cherished.. but from the way you speak.. you're better off with a tube of KY... and take matters into your own hand.
HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!
Take some bible studies and learn of what you speak..
http://www.joycemeyer.org - female
http://www.jdm.org - male
http://www.tdjakes.org - male
Get on your knees and ask the Lord for forgiveness for your words against women!
2006-08-27 15:34:22 · answer #8 · answered by sassy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
But you must love and honor your wife, only then does she owe you a corresponding duty:
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Messiah also loved the assembly, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious assembly, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Master the assembly: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Messiah and the assembly. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
2006-08-27 15:37:56 · answer #9 · answered by seandashark 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is what Paul of Tarsus wrote, certainly. Of course, Paul represented many reactionary, life-denying perspectives, and this has had a profoundly negative impact upon the growth of Christianity, running counter to the life-affirming message of Jesus.
Jesus had a different message entirely about women. Read Luke. Not that it matters. Religious zealots of your persuasion are fond of searching the Bible selectively to rake all the blessings for yourselves and heap all the curses on your neighbors. Jesus had much to say, too, about those for whom this is true.
What is the origin of your personal zeal in antipathy toward women?
2006-08-27 15:32:36 · answer #10 · answered by snowbaal 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You should be taking this verse in full context: True, it instructs wives to be submissive to their husbands, but it also instructs husbands to serve their wives in love and lay down their lives for them as Christ laid down his life for his bride, the church. Who do you think has the harder job? And which of them is in more need of being fulfilled at this point?
2006-08-27 15:34:42 · answer #11 · answered by teowin2 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋