When were women respected and put on a pedestal as "ladies"? Women have always been treated as second class people. Often the same people that put women on a pedestal abuse them because they don't live up to that exaggerated standard.
We're supposed to put each other on pedestals but not to be worshiped over God, just to highly esteem your mate.
You know the lords and ladies days, I just wan't to see men grow up and mature and start learning what it's like to treat a woman like a "lady" is all. True in the olden days most men would place their women on pedestals just because they (the men) knew they were so bad, and the woman, in those days represented that which was pure morally, and many men knew how bad they were compared to their wives, even while abusing or dominating or oppressing them...
God created men and women to be partners -- "the two shall become one flesh" -- and they are supposed to love and honor each other. As somebody who has been married for 46 years and still actively loves my wife I can tell you that unless you truly love someone for who they are as a person, not as a semi-deity on a pedestal, the relationship will never succeed.
Marriage is a partnership, but men and women were not created "equal", the woman is called the weaker vessel, and Adam was Eve's head and was taken from his side, which means he's supposed to be the one leading and teaching, and Adam spoke directly to Adam, we have no evidence that he directly spoke to Eve... Eve broke the rule first, but who did God come looking for after they broke the rule? Adam, not Eve and he approached Adam about eating from the fruit of the tree first.
But I agree with you that "unless you truly love someone for who they are as a person, not as a semi-deity on a pedestal, the relationship will never succeed."
I'm not talking about worshiping them, I'm just talking about building them up and holding them in high esteem, Like the example of Sarah and Abraham is used saying she used to submit to Abraham, calling him "Lord" And, in my opinion each one should be more highly esteeming the other over themselves (this is at the root of Agape Love) Why shouldn't we think of our wives as if giving them the title "Lady" such and such, and for a man, Lord so and so, might change our point of view...?
Anyways, all this just made me think of the lord and lady days,
God Bless!
