"Wives, subject yourselves to your husbands".. but "husbands love your wives as Christ loves His church." Is this the law of the bible or principles of men from 2000 years ago, was it intended for the modern times or was for its time? If it was a law then where is the law, if it were a principle is it authoritative, and if so according to whom? It's so easy to read the bible and take things out of context without using another aid of reference besides the bible.
There is a difference between the wife volunteering to be submissive and the husband forcing submission on her. In the first situation the woman is given the freedom to choose but in the second situation she is not. We live in 2015 now and if the husband thinks he needs to be in control is a sign of an insecure personality. It is true that a husband whose position is low in society (perhaps a low paid job requiring little skills and responsibility) will have little control of many things in his life, so perhaps him being a Christian and reading 'wives, subject yourselves to your husbands' is the only time such men who need to have such control over their wives and over the household to feel better about themselves will enjoy the control and submission. Church essentially bestows upon men authority that society otherwise may not. I wonder just why society would not bestow such authority on men, hmm maybe it's because they're not educated, not responsible, oh and we live in the year 2015 where most of the free world are free.
There is a difference between the wife volunteering to be submissive and the husband forcing submission on her. In the first situation the woman is given the freedom to choose but in the second situation she is not. We live in 2015 now and if the husband thinks he needs to be in control is a sign of an insecure personality. It is true that a husband whose position is low in society (perhaps a low paid job requiring little skills and responsibility) will have little control of many things in his life, so perhaps him being a Christian and reading 'wives, subject yourselves to your husbands' is the only time such men who need to have such control over their wives and over the household to feel better about themselves will enjoy the control and submission. Church essentially bestows upon men authority that society otherwise may not. I wonder just why society would not bestow such authority on men, hmm maybe it's because they're not educated, not responsible, oh and we live in the year 2015 where most of the free world are free.
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