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I will be a strong spiritual leader Comments
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| The man of the household is the spiritual leader |
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| Name: Cassie | 2006-02-28 |
| God did intend for the man of the household to be the spiritual leader for his family. It think adding this to the vow is an outstanding idea. |
| God is real not a religion |
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| Name: Sarai | 2007-06-21 |
Marriage is Gods idea. And He did intend for the man to lead the woman spiritually. He also intends for the man to rule over the woman. Lovingly of course. Gods laws are perfect, not disgusting. You should find out more about this before making these judgements. God made and loves you too. He gave His Son Jesus for you.
I can see some cynical people reading this and thinking "yea right. not another Bible-basher". But it's true. God created the world and there are laws he created. Think about it. The world, in all it's complexity, didn't create itself. And it hasn't evolved from a small bundle of cells. Even science disagrees with that now.
Look into it. |
| wow |
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| Name: Tess | 2007-03-09 |
| This is totally disgusting to me. It's so condescending to believe that a woman needs her hand held by a man to worship whatever God in whichever faith she may be a part of. |
| Gross |
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| Name: puking up blood | 2008-02-07 |
| get fucked!! |
| Women are just as good leaders as men |
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| Name: Amelia Allis | 2008-05-11 |
Tess - I completely agree.
I am a Christian. But I won't call myself a Christian if that means I have to be a sexist Christian.
Some Christians think the man should be the (spiritual etc) leader and the woman should be obedient to him. But heaps of other Christians today (almost every Christian I know) thinks that it should be completely equal between husband and wife - they should 'submit' in a sense to each other, respect each other, and have equal roles in decision-making etc.
I cannot agree with any God, or any faith, that tells me arbitrarily that I must obey my husband and he must lead me. It has been bad for women historically to have only men and no women as the 'leaders' of everything, at least it is changing today.
God is all-loving and all-good. He created women and men equal. Even if men are naturally better leaders (I disagree strongly!) there is no reason to think that absolutely all men should lead absolutely all women once married (some women will be better leaders than some men). |
| yeah yeah |
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| Name: Jen | 2008-06-15 |
I'm assuming this is a vow for a male? I'm also assuming he forgot to add the part about where he prays the woman will may fulfill God's place for her in their home...
Religious types are so strange. |
| oh boy |
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| Name: Andrew | 2008-06-17 |
| must i always be the voice if reason? without totally shooting everybody down theologically (which i would like to do, should i have the time later) i must say that despite all your bickering about being 'equal', you're really missing the point in all of it. God is the one to say who submits to who. He tells us to submit to Him and to follow His authority. If you're going to reject the God-given 'headship/authority' that you're place under (Biblically...yes, it's in the Bible if you look) then I cant imagine that you're going to submit to God, the highest authority. Should you decide to believe that God is right and you are wrong, then you'll begin to realize that He puts things in place the way He does because He loves us and knows what's best. until then, you're just a mess, Amelia. |
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