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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dani: [QB] "Its stupid stupid stupid" ?? Whoa...Tom, care to explain this to us? I happen to think that here are a LOT of valuble lessons in the Bible; Old Testament and New Testament alike. Just because a document was written 4000 years ago doesn't mean that human nature has changed at all in that amount of time. The reason that so much of the Bible doesn't seem relevant to us today is mostly because we're not taking it in context. Let me give an example: Ephesians 6:22-24. "You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything." Okay, right about now, you're thinking this is the most sexist, descriminatory thing you've ever heard and YES, it's in the Bible. But if you read only this, then that's where the fault lies. Ephesians carries on to say tell us that the husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church, and that he should love her as he loves his own body. This isn't "submit to your husband when he beats you" of "submit to your husband when he's yelling at you" this is THE PERFECT RELATIONSHIP. Our partner is supposed to love us selflessly, as Christ loves his children. Submit, in this case, means acquiesce (To rest satisfied, without opposition and discontent.) because if the husband is seeking God's will for the family, he won't be making the decisions based on what he feels is right, but what is best for his family, and he won't be making these decisions on his own. Anyways, that's just an example. IMHO, there is hardly anything in the Bible which is not at least the smallest bit relevant, even in current times. ((Oh, and FYI, I'd love to find the man who will love me as purely and unconditionally as God loves his children...)) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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