Is it Biblically permissive to beat one's wife?

kaylagrl · Oct 14, 2021

Aaron56 said:
Only in Scrabble.

I know this is an old post but this cracked me up. You'd have to play Scrabble with my parents. rofl

tourist · Oct 14, 2021

TheLearner said:
Irrigation

53. If a man neglects to maintain his dike and does not strengthen it, and a break is made in his dike and the water carries away the farmland, the man in whose dike the break has been made shall replace the grain which has been damaged.
54. If he is not able to replace the grain, they shall sell him and his goods and the farmers whose grain the water has carried away shall divide the proceeds from the sale.

If the dike starts to leak the man can stick his finger in it to stop the leak.

Laura798 · Oct 14, 2021

Gibsonbfree said:
TheLearner was right.

It’s talking about a wife who is with Jesus but married to a husband that isn’t with Jesus.

The verses about treating good was for those who are Christians and trying to be.

But the point of post was that the wife isn’t with a godly man nor one who is trying to be. So Paul is saying God expects her to withstand the abuse and never insult or fight back and be kind like Jesus did in the hope that the husband would be won over to believing in Jesus as well. It’s that kindness and not fighting back while abused that can sometimes make a person see there’s something special about them that they still love and are not fighting back.

The thing is, unless God gives a woman or anyone the power of the Holy Spirit to withstand that abuse, no one can cause all people are made different with different levels of mental and physical. Like able to handle stress or stay calm or not be mentally ill. There may be some that have great constitutions mentally abd to handle stress but w/o the Holy Spirit nothing pleases God because it’s then the person in their own strength doing the works.

The idea of taking abuse is like slavery and Slavery was instituted by God. He put His people through slavery 400 years as a way of submission as what Jesus went through suffering and having to be patient and obey while oppressed. There is many verses about this people have no idea it’s not how they think.[/QUOTE
Slavery is NOT instituted by God and there in no way anyone should tolerate abuse. Those who do, often end up dead. “Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”—1st Peter 3:7

TheLearner · Oct 14, 2021

presidente said:
The Bible does not forbid slavery. But the Old Testament regulated it. Paul encouraged masters to treat their slaves fairly and for slaves to obey their master. Slavery was not tied up with race and skin color in Paul's day or Abrahams like it was in the US South in the 1800s and prior centuries.

Abraham's servant, the one whose prayer the LORD answered, said of his master in Genesis 24:35,
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

America is not Egypt and does not resemble it much at all. Americans named some of their cities after Egyptian cities. They don't look like Egyptian cities. The Nile is big. The Mississippi river is big. The religion and demographics are not the same. And 400 years is not 245 years.

The British Israelite movement found vague similarities between passages of scripture and the British people. That doesn't make the British Israelites.

Slavery in the Bible is not the same as modern times. I do not remember the difference. Maybe, someone else knows.