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To: Free ThinkerNY
The Bible tells wives to be submissive to their husbands.

Ephesians 5:22-33

New International Version (NIV)

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 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. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5%3A22-33&version=NIV

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Posting the entire passage since it seems the press and left in general always remove this from its context as though it is a one way street to hold women to be inferior, which it is not - the husband also has his own great responsibility that he must give to the wife as well.

15 posted on 08/11/2011 8:36:01 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Your comment, suggesting that the press removes the context, assumes that the press knows the context. The press does not know the context. The press has absorbed the aroma of the recollection of the context as fed to them by their religiously ignorant parents, who were too embarrassed to give their children an actual religious education.


22 posted on 08/11/2011 8:43:00 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: Republican Wildcat

“it seems the press and left in general always remove this from its context”

That’s because they’re either atheist or New Age wackadoodles and lack the conceptual framework to comprehend, much less explain, 23-33.


24 posted on 08/11/2011 8:46:55 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Republican Wildcat

Of course you’re right, but, no one has any interest in representing the truth in context. People are willfully ignorant.


31 posted on 08/11/2011 9:02:32 PM PDT by Lost Highway (I don't know what the world may need but a V8 engines a good start for me)
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