understand that Jesus gives his Church the right to act with authority on certain things?
2007-06-14 10:52:38 · 14 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
obviously you guys that are being funny have never dealt with the banks
2007-06-14 15:21:17 · update #1
Yes. Preach the gospel, heal the sick, feed the poor, visit the sick and imprisoned, clothe the naked, comfort the widow and the fatherless. That's what He'd do. He gave those commands to do it in His name. That's power of attorney, or deity, if you will.
2007-06-14 10:57:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Midge, you have point. You're not saying that a husband gives authority to his wife as if the wife were an underling or without her own authority over herself, but rather that he gives her authority over that which he alone would have authority over, ie the things which are his.
Likewise, Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and on earth by His Father, and, this authority being His, he authorizes the Church to act in His name.
And the seal of that authority is the sending of the Holy Spirit, the Advocate. So really, as someone else said, it is a kind of power of atttorney... except that that "power" is the attorney - Advocate and is God Himself, who acts through the Church.
Ain't the Holy Spirit great?
2007-06-14 19:52:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your husband give you authority? What a good man. I command my husband and I would intentionally subjugate another human being. What makes him any smarter, or better at decision making than you?
aww, the people trolling in our name cant even say something witty enough to be deserving of my visage *ahem. Moment of ego has just begun*
2007-06-14 14:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As a Christian grandmother, I have never, nor will I ever wait for a man to give me authority to do anything. As a human being, created with free will and in the image of God, I am resonsible for my own decisions and actions. Jesus came to take away our sins not to steal our brains.
2007-06-14 11:01:28 · answer #4 · answered by Linda R 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, because I have serious doubts that Jesus even existed in the form written about him in the Bible. Thomas Jefferson felt the same way when he created his own version of the Bible, excluding all of Jesus' life except his teachings. Jefferson believed there was no immaculate conception, there were no miracles performed by Jesus, there was no resurrection, and that Jesus was not the son of the Christian god. Can you understand that?
2007-06-14 11:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your husband GIVES you authority? What makes it his to begin with? I command myself, and my husband and I enjoy an equal partnership. I cant understand why any human would intentionally subjugate themselves to another human being. What makes him any smarter, or better at decision making than you?
aww, the people trolling in my name cant even say something witty enough to be deserving of my visage *ahem. Moment of ego over*
Bah!! Now there's two of them!!!
2007-06-14 11:36:33 · answer #6 · answered by Goddess Nikki 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, were suppose to Police the Earth till we get outta here.
One can send a thousand.
Two can send ten thousand.
2007-06-14 10:56:50 · answer #7 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So it was Jesus then, by proxy, that ordered the death of thousands during the Inquisition, Crusades, and Dark ages?
2007-06-14 10:56:21 · answer #8 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, dont let him push you around, he loves you, but he has grown up in a way that he needs to take controll, which means you have to balance it out before he makes a decision that would be bad for you, but he dosent know it will.
2007-06-15 01:27:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor Midge, she lets her husband give her authority to do things.
2007-06-14 10:56:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋