Information on what does it mean for christian women's to be submissive?

Answer 1

If the women is submissive unto her husband
then it will show the husband how to be submissive unto God

but no where in the Bible does it state that the husband is to abuse his wife in any way

Answer 2

Before I married I had relationships, and relations with several Christian women that were very submissive, and a couple of them were married at the time, so to answer your question I would have to say that being submissive for them is simply being human.

Answer 3

Well - check out the bible. A few sentences up from the whole 'wives submit' thing is 'Christians, make yourself subservient to one another/be submissive to one another.' The same verb is used. A Christian woman's submission to her husband is the same as every other Christian's submission to .... other Christians. It means that a woman should be agreeable with her husband and let him have his way from time to time (as he does with her - a perpetuation of the whole 'do unto others as you would have done unto yourself idea). It's in Ephesians chapter 5. Be sure to read the whole chapter! Don't be misled by people who attempt to convince you that you should bow to you husband and view him as an 'authority' in the home... That's not what Paul's comparison of the wife/husband relationship to the church/christ relationship was all about. It was about the sharing of a man's socially(not divinely!)-designated authority with his wife. Jesus was about allowing the church equality, not taking authority ... You can also check out the book 'Ten Lies the Church Tells Women' by J. Lee Grady - it's nicely egalitarian. The website www.cbeinternational.org is a great informational site about egalitarian Christianity. Check it out.

Answer 4

CHRISTIANITY REQUIRES GENDER EQUALITY AND RESPECT FOR LIFE
by Monnica Terwilliger



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Monnica Terwilliger is an Evangelical Protestant Christian. She belongs to the Foursquare denomination, which was started by a woman, Aimee Semple McPherson. Terwilliger describes McPherson as "a successful evangelist, healer, and pastor because of her strong spiritual anointing. According to a prominent church historian, Vinson Synan, 'She holds a prominent rank among all religious leaders in the twentieth century, regardless of their sex, and may well be the most important ordained woman minister in the history of Christianity.'"
Terwilliger's article is identifiably Evangelical in the centrality it gives in ethical deliberation to the words of the Christian Bible and to the example and teaching of Jesus, considered the Son of God and the Savior of the human race. -- Editor



http://www.fnsa.org/fall98/terwilliger.html

Answer 5

It means that, regardless of what your beliefs are, the Bible was written down and transcribed by men in a time when equality was not considered a good thing.

Men and women should be equal.

Answer 6

Submission means putting her husbands need before her own.

Answer 7

As I do not know that much about the history of this subject, I do know that in 2 Corinthians, it states that the woman should be submissive to the husband..BUT the husband is to "love his wife, as Christ loves the church" and to RESPECT her. People seem to forget about that part.

THe man is called to be the leader of the house, and the woman, the keeper.

If a man is respectful of his wife, and treats her with perfect love, the woman would want to be submissive, because it wouldn't be something that was hateful.

Answer 8

Ephesians 5:22-33 sums it up perfectly.

Answer 9

actually, Ephesians states first that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church, before he talks about wives submiting to the husband as the church is submissive under Christ.

it is a two way street. each party msut lay down their own pride and selfishness to serve and respect the other, and love unconditionally

Answer 10

The husband is the head. (1 Cor. 11:3) The God-fearing wife recognizes her husband’s authority. For example, Sarah “used to obey Abraham, calling him ‘lord,’” not as a polite formality, but as a sincere reflection of her submissiveness. (1 Peter 3:6; Genesis 18:12) She also willingly left behind her comfortable home in the city of Ur in order to dwell in tents with her husband. (Hebrews 11:8, 9) But submission did not mean that a wife could not take responsible action when necessary. When Moses failed to comply with God’s law on circumcision, his wife, Zipporah, forestalled disaster by acting decisively. (Exodus 4:24-26) More is at stake than pleasing an imperfect man. Wives must be “in subjection to their husbands as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22) When a Christian wife thinks in terms of her relationship with God, this helps her to overlook minor flaws and inadequacies in her husband, even as he needs to do in dealing with her.