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As for the OP, your husband has lied to you. He doesn't need more than you. As for submission, it is voluntary. It is something you do, not that he tells you to do.
You need to wake up and realize you have been conned. It makes me sick when men push a wife around like this, committing adultery, lying, telling them they have to put up with someone bringing home multiple venereal diseases. Because sleeping with him, is now sleeping with everyone he has slept with, and everyone they have slept with, and everyone they have slept with.
And if he cites the Old Testament, they didn't have venereal diseases and STDs like they do today.
Throw him out of your bed. Don't take him back unless he promises fidelity to you, and gets a clean bill of health for ALL the new and exciting STDs, which could cause you to go sterile, or kill you, for example. You, not necessarily him. Or pass those STD's onto any children you might have.
Common sense says marriage is between one man and one woman. The bible also says this. Otherwise, why would Jesus and Paul talk about adultery being wrong and bad? Why is this in the Bible from the Torah on?
“You shall not commit adultery." Exodus 20:14
The penalty for adultery?
“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death." Lev. 20:10
"“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matt 5:27
Adultery is described as evil.
"For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander." Matt 15:19
When the church met for its first council, abstaining from sexual immortality was one of the 4 things Christians were told not to do. Sexual immorality means not only having a girlfriend on the side, when you are married, it means sleeping with someone you are not married to.
"It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.[FONT="]Farewell." Acts 15:28
Finally, Paul!
"Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy." Romans 13:13
"But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband." 1 Cor. 7:2-3
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming" Col. 3:5
"The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." Gal. 5:19-21
My advice is to read the Bible for yourself. Your husband has been pulling the wool over your eyes, to have his cake and eat it too.
Unless you are a troll. And if so, perhaps someone will read these verses, and wake up to the evil that is adultery and sexual immorality. [/FONT]
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You need to wake up and realize you have been conned. It makes me sick when men push a wife around like this, committing adultery, lying, telling them they have to put up with someone bringing home multiple venereal diseases. Because sleeping with him, is now sleeping with everyone he has slept with, and everyone they have slept with, and everyone they have slept with.
And if he cites the Old Testament, they didn't have venereal diseases and STDs like they do today.
Throw him out of your bed. Don't take him back unless he promises fidelity to you, and gets a clean bill of health for ALL the new and exciting STDs, which could cause you to go sterile, or kill you, for example. You, not necessarily him. Or pass those STD's onto any children you might have.
Common sense says marriage is between one man and one woman. The bible also says this. Otherwise, why would Jesus and Paul talk about adultery being wrong and bad? Why is this in the Bible from the Torah on?
“You shall not commit adultery." Exodus 20:14
The penalty for adultery?
“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death." Lev. 20:10
"“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matt 5:27
Adultery is described as evil.
"For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander." Matt 15:19
When the church met for its first council, abstaining from sexual immortality was one of the 4 things Christians were told not to do. Sexual immorality means not only having a girlfriend on the side, when you are married, it means sleeping with someone you are not married to.
"It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.[FONT="]Farewell." Acts 15:28
Finally, Paul!
"Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy." Romans 13:13
"But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband." 1 Cor. 7:2-3
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming" Col. 3:5
"The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." Gal. 5:19-21
My advice is to read the Bible for yourself. Your husband has been pulling the wool over your eyes, to have his cake and eat it too.
Unless you are a troll. And if so, perhaps someone will read these verses, and wake up to the evil that is adultery and sexual immorality. [/FONT]
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In response to the OP, wives should submit to their husbands. Peter illustrated this by saying wives should submit to their husbands, 'even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord', so submission implies obedience.
But what we are talking about here is an issue of sexual morality. The difficulty is that polygamy was practiced in the Old Testament, and God even gave laws regulating it. The New Testament teaches that the bishop must be the husband of one wife, and some take that to mean that other men do not have to be. This is a real issue for example, for missionaries dealing with people from polygymous cultures coming to faith. Some missionaries and the church that formed would have a generation of polygamy before moving away from it.
The issue is whether the Bible teaches that polygamy is a sin. If we look at Matthew 19, Jesus said that he that divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. Why would that be adultery? Adultery in the Old Testament is a sexual sin. If a man divorced his wife, Jesus did not say that alone constituted adultery. But if he divorced and married another, why would that be adultery? Jesus justified His teaching by pointing back to the account of the creation of woman in Genesis and that two shall be one flesh. Doesn't it make sense that if divorcing a woman and marrying another is adultery, that marrying the second woman without divorcing the first might also be adultery as well?
But what we are talking about here is an issue of sexual morality. The difficulty is that polygamy was practiced in the Old Testament, and God even gave laws regulating it. The New Testament teaches that the bishop must be the husband of one wife, and some take that to mean that other men do not have to be. This is a real issue for example, for missionaries dealing with people from polygymous cultures coming to faith. Some missionaries and the church that formed would have a generation of polygamy before moving away from it.
The issue is whether the Bible teaches that polygamy is a sin. If we look at Matthew 19, Jesus said that he that divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. Why would that be adultery? Adultery in the Old Testament is a sexual sin. If a man divorced his wife, Jesus did not say that alone constituted adultery. But if he divorced and married another, why would that be adultery? Jesus justified His teaching by pointing back to the account of the creation of woman in Genesis and that two shall be one flesh. Doesn't it make sense that if divorcing a woman and marrying another is adultery, that marrying the second woman without divorcing the first might also be adultery as well?
Without being hostile, I would point out that Christianity is, by its nature, exclusive.
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Simply put, there is only one way, and that way is Christ. Everything else is bankrupt.
God bless.
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Simply put, there is only one way, and that way is Christ. Everything else is bankrupt.
God bless.