Posted on 01/27/2010 1:52:06 PM PST by RnMomof7
" ............in our Bibles, we find Adam shirking his responsibility and leading his wife in rebellion. It is easy to miss because we say, "What do you mean Adam is leading his wife in rebellion? The text just says she is there with the serpent in the garden. .......She offers it to her husband. What do you mean he leads her into rebellion? It seems to be the other way around." But who was given the responsibility to lead and protect? In the fall everything is twisted and contorted....
...... The whole cosmos was to be subdued under the authority of God, man's responsibility was to lead and create an entire civilization that sought its identity in God and received the inheritance God would provide. .... In this rebellion against God there is the loss of identity and inheritance.'
'........... the fall resulted in fatherlessness, because identity and inheritance is what a father is to provide. That is why the Bible keeps talking.. about the horror of fatherlessness. ... There are constant biblical admonitions in this fallen world to care for the fatherless, to nurture the fatherless, and not to forsake the fatherless. It simply does not talk about motherlessness in the same way. Why? Because it is easier to be motherless? No! It is awful, painful, and tragic, but in the biblical world identity came from the father. You were identified by what your father did. Inheritance came from the father as well. To be motherless was to be pitied and to know pain, anguish and agony, but it was not to be completely stripped of your ability to take care of yourself. It was not to have your entire future obliterated. ........ The father gave identity to the family. He protected, provided for,....
(Excerpt) Read more at reformation21.org ...
Well, since nobody else has posted, at least this Catholic thought it was an excellent article.
Thanks.. It is kinnda long I know, so I suspect many looked at the excerpts without reading the whole thing .
I think this should hit us where we live :)
You see though I have never been a father, I am a dad to five. My wife was a widow with three small children when we married and when my sister and her husband were killed in a car accident we adopted their two children.
I had always looked at myself as their savior, as their knight in shining armor, but it was they who had saved me. Being a dad made me a man. And it was in answer to my children's prayers that I came to know God nine years ago.
Thanks again for posting this and God bless.
Thanks for the reply... God has given you a family,one that helps you understand how sweet it is to the father to adopt children..
I have step family that are as much mine as any ‘blood” family so I know that is how God sees me too >)
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