Friendships between men and women?

Question

Please help, I've been doing research for a couple of days now and I'm having a hard time finding what I need. I'm trying to establish what the biblical ideals are of what friendships between men and women should be like. If anyone can help me in anyway I would really appreciate it.

In case your curious (which ur probably not) I'm writing a paper on friendships between men and women in the TV show Bones and I'm supposed to say what's whole about how bones shows friendships between men and women and what's broken (by that I mean how does what bones show compare to what I've established as the biblical idea of what it should be like...if that makes any sense.) Then I have to say what I would change to have it fit more completely into that biblical idea.

Answer 1

I don't know of any spiritual guidelines as spelled out by scripture except that you we are to love each other as brothers and sisters in messiah.

I have a lot of women friends and they are my friends for the same reason as all my men friends, we have a shared faith, we care for each other, we pray for each other, we enjoy getting together and sharpening each other. (honeing each other with the word.) Mostly I have a deep respect for my women friends much the same as I do for my men friends.

For me, from a mans persepective I think its the mutual respect that we share that makes us friends. My wife would say our love for each other and she would be right but thats one of the differances between men and women our focus tends to be on our number one need.

Truly Terry you are an idiot.

Yahshua and Mary
Yahshua and Martha
Paul and Lydia
Paul and Priscillia
Paul and Phoebe

Answer 2

1 Timothy 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father. Treat younger men like brothers, 2 older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.

Answer 3

You could look at what friendship looks like in general, then apply it to men and women. Friendship is always just friendship, anyway! Married couples are primarily friends (healthy ones).

you can also look at Elijah (or Elisha??) and the woman who he prayed for a child for. (Hannah I think, who had Samuel)

Answer 4

1st Corinthians chapter 11 has alot of good things about the relationship between man and women.

Verse 7
"..... but the woman is the glory of the man"
Verse 12
"For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God"

Answer 5

Being friends with women is always a difficult thing. The sex thing always gets in the way, as does the way things look.

This one Christian girl I know who took me to a religious conference remarked that "people will think she's out with her father."

So she's aware of how things "look" to others.

People always "think" your a couple.

But when we get lost in the day we talk and laugh and eat and have fun and neither of us "thinks" about things anymore.

It only gets ruined when we start pondering "appearances."

See a man and woman together always generate "appearances" to others, even to themselves.

Answer 6

You must be at a christian school. Men dominate women throughout the Bible and are seldom if ever (meaning I can't find any) in a situation of equal friendship.

Answer 7

well acording to corinthians women are supposed to be in submission to their husbands and support them in their (wise) decisions n correct them in love in their foolish ones. all throughout proverbs solomon tlks of the virtuous woman, one who doesnot assert herself to know more or to overpower her male counterpart but to be his main support system. in Genesis also, eve was to "bruise Adam's heel" not meaning stepped on, but as a support holding him up. men are also to admonish their wives, love them and not assert their manly influence over them but to respect her.

Answer 8

hmmm. so when he told me earlier he was going to watch the football should i have believed him?