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Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church

He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
--Hebrews 13:4

2007-07-19 06:36:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

16 answers

Yes.
God hates sin.
He hates anything that destroy peoples' lives.
He tells us what these things are so we can avoid them.
There is no love without hate.

"Hate evil, you who love the LORD,
Who preserves the souls of His godly ones;
He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. "
Psalm 97:10

2007-07-19 06:42:35 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2 1

Marriage is an honourable relationship in the eyes of Lord. When a marriage takes event, all the angles that are in the skies and on the earth celeberate with joy.
It should be respected, and honoured. There should be love,trust and sacrifice on the both sides.
Unfortunately the present generation takes this most honoured and pious relationship as a contract which can be broken anytime and anywhere, little knowing that it is the most hated step in the eyes of our Lord.
Also sleeping or having sex prior to marriage is the biggest sin even if he or she is your future husband or wife.
There is no hate speech, but the truth.

2007-07-19 14:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by bakhan 4 · 1 0

hate speech is a big word, but it is male supremacy talk, yes. The fact that Jesus had twelve apostles who were all men, and that in another letter Paul said that the women had to be silent in church and when they were home they could ask their husbands to explain... of course many Christians now take women seriously as people capable of thought, but Paul did not. During the middle ages the debate was fierce if women had a soul, and I don't think that this debate would have gone this way if Paul had not written such things. Now you can say "Paul didn't write that women don't have a soul", and you're right, he didn't. But fact of the matter is, he made it clear that women should not speak in church, and people could not just follow that instruction without looking for a justification... as long as there is christianity there has been a religious quest to find out what it is about women that makes them unfit for ministry. Every sniplet of information would be turned in such a way to show that women were ethically and intellectually inferior to men. It would be foolish to suggest that Paul is responsible for all of that. But it would be worse to say he has nothing to do with it.

may I suggest you read "Live from Golgotha" by Gore Vidal. I'm sure you'll find it highly offensive. But it is not written just to be offensive, it is meant as a serious alternative vision of Paul (apart from the time-travelling obviously).

2007-07-19 13:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 · 0 1

Marriages lasted in the past (when biblical principals were used).
Today,how many marriages (other then older folk) last ten years?twenty years?
Many people today have been married 3-5 times.
Even churches today cower to the PC crowd and teach the PC rules for marriage.
God created the marriage relationship and He knows what works and what won't work.
only sex between a husband and wife will procreate and be safe.It is also part of a stable society.

2007-07-19 14:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by robert p 7 · 1 0

amazing...

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church"

You must be a REALLY big fan of Pat Robertson, huh?

2007-07-19 13:45:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

I'm lost here - where is the hate?

Paul has clearly shown throughout the epistle that Christians are a new social order created to express the fullness of Christ in the midst of the old, fallen order. What he is saying is that the Spirit empowers Christians to exist in relationship with each other in a radical, culturally transforming way, namely, through mutual self-submission. Completely against the norms of the time. The ground for this radically new approach to human relationships is “out of reverence for Christ.” The reason for that reverence (or, perhaps better, awe) is the radical nature of Christ's earthly life, the total, free submission of himself as God's suffering servant, climaxed in his self-giving on the cross. It is reverence and awe toward that self-giving love that is to motivate our mutual self-submission to each other.

The last line says be faithful to each other, God condemns adultery.

2007-07-19 13:41:17 · answer #6 · answered by D2T 3 · 2 1

I think you're taking it a little hostile.

But if a man made 4 babies with you and then deserted you, left you a lone and went off to make babies with someone else, I think you might be even MORE hostile.

2007-07-19 13:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I believe the hate speech is more prominent when the bible describes in what manner we should kill any woman that is found not to be a virgin on her wedding night...

Have you had premarital sex? If so, do you think you deserve to be put to death?

Your god does.

2007-07-19 13:46:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Honey, I have been married for 18 years and I am not the head of my wife. Never have been. Oh yeah. There is no god.

2007-07-19 13:45:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

I think it works both ways, i submit to my husband but at times he submits to me.

2007-07-19 13:42:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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