If you are Christian, do you believe it is your "godly" wife duty to never say no to your spouse?
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Anonymous
I love this response because Jesus was so incredibly progressive and people have skewed his teachings to play into the patriarchy. Christianity no longer has anything to do with Christ. |
Anonymous
| I rarely say no to my husband because he’s smart enough to understand my frequency needs and my be in the mood needs. Timing is everything! |
Anonymous
| This is not a "christian" belief. It is a belief among select few fringe christian subsets, think Duggars. |
Anonymous
No, we atheists and agnostics don't care at all and just sit back amused at you living in your Dr. Seuss world. Most of us are scienceticians. |
Anonymous
Where in the bible does it say this? Show proof. A "Christian" doesn't call others "degenerates". Post fail. |
Anonymous
"A good wife is worth her weight in gold, she who gladly strokes her husband's glory and fulfills her husband's daily desires will receive much reward in heaven." |
Anonymous
Hot! |
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Whatever religion you paint this with, it is misogynist.
Please don't raise children in a home that models the notion that one gender is subservient to the other. |
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Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:5 NIV PP from up thread. This was what abusive ex used. |
Anonymous
OP? Yoo-hoo, OP!?! Nothing, huh? Didn’t think so. |
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My cousin once tried to talk me into this. She’s Lutheran and lives in the middle of Missouri. Her justification was something like “you cannot have to leaders in the family. I trust my dh. This way the family runs smoothly. He makes all the decisions, and I take care of him and the family by cleaning and cooking. Also, it’s in the Bible!”
I said, no. Her dh is really weird BTW. Like quiet but when he talks he acts like he’s brilliant and has a self satisfied smirk on his face. |
Anonymous
And these: Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. 1 Corinthians 7:4 NIV The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. So abuser ex saw himself as head of the household and head of my body. Was obsessed with 'cleansing' me which to him was bizarre sex acts. Had twisted and warped ideas of satan talking to him and god too, telling him to do demented things. Its very easy for abusers to pick and choose from these verses to a create a narrative justifying their abuse. There are many christian men who use their sexuality and lust as a threat based on these verses. It's so f'ed up to me that these verses are actually things that people live by. I can't even begin to understand religious organizations that have gotten away with these mentalities for such a long time. |
Anonymous
Bible says men should love their wive as Christ loved the Church (the Body of believers). Men like to forget this part of the verse. If a man loves his wife like the way Christ loves the Body, he would do lay down his life for her, and provide whatever she needed. All of his decisions and actions would be about the good of the family. Demanding sex from your wife isn't for the good of the family, unless you think you being happy is for the good of the family. I think this is how a lot of men see it, but that's not how Christ sees it (I mean.. he was physically miserable for a lot of the three years he was preaching). But to answer OP's question: as others have stated, that's not what the Bible teaches. I think you are an anti-Christian pot stirer. -lifelong Christian, and wife. |
Anonymous
Too many people take a single verse either out of context or not in its entirety: "In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband." How many actually love their wives like Christ loves the Church? And yet they expect their wives to follow the submissive verse, but they don't think they need to follow things that they are told to do, or they twist words to suit their purposes. This was not the intent of Christ's teachings. Men, who have held the power, just like to twist thing to suit their needs/wants, and I do include the picking and choosing by men of specific books and verses that comprise the Bible. |
Anonymous
+1. I'm Catholic, so the wrong kind of Christian for this post, but my understanding is that saying the man is the had of the household can be interpreted in a lot of different ways, and people in dysfunctional relationships are dysfunctional first, and provide the reasoning for it second. People say that they are in co-dependent relationships for all kinds or reasons: religion, children, family pressure, finances, fear, etc. But it's usually because they grew up in a dysfunctional family and are continuing the pattern. It's not like Christians have a monopoly on alcoholism or marital rape. |