Wives are to submit to their husbands and their husbands are to submit to God per the Bible. God wants submission and he has enslaved his people, had them almost annihilated at times, and allowed them to starve to gain that submission. He even drown the world to get submissive people back in the majority. God has no qualms about using force to make us submit to his authority.
The are absolutes of opinion. Are you referring to the Jewish tribes and slaves in the Old Testament here, and their constant problems with making covenants with God and breaking them? They are referred to as "God's Chosen" people. The flood and Noah's ark are all in the Old Testament.
You are relating more to the Old Testament than to the New Testament or to Christianity today. I cannot imagine a saved Christian complaining "God has no qualms about using force to make us submit to his authority." Very strange language, very strange outlook on our Lord God.
Should your husband do likewise or should he let you walk all over him?
With more wives filing for divorce than husbands and the divorce rate at 50% I don't care to elaborate further on how disrespected men are in the US. The freedom America grants its citizens does not always translate into a Godly society or even a happy one.
Again, I am getting these little red flashing lights at the sound of these ideas. This extreme emphasis on "how disrespected men are in the US." American men have never struck me as feeling down trodden and "disrespected" by women. This is arrogant rhetoric of male domination found in other countries, cultures and religions in the extremes many times over.
American men and women are both more accustomed to freedom and equality in the United States, more so than in some other countries. The American men I have known would either take offense at such views or simply find them hilariously grim and pretentious.
And the shots at American freedoms not being for a Godly society or a happy one. That is an accusing finger pointing from afar, methinks.
Overseas we fight for democracy in Iraq while we trade with people who enslave people who want democracy in China. Shop at Wal-Mart to continue the support of this practice. Don't look to foreign policy for morality unless you don't mind grave disappointment.
Wow, that is a very far cry what I said. I was referring to unilateral submission. I have made it clear throughout my posting history that I think wives should submit. I think it is not, however, the one way street that it has been abused to be. I believe submission is mutual in marriage between husbands and wives.
