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    What is the point of marriage?

    This is generally true. This is because most people do not have much real compassion, not much caring for others. I didn't really like that video much either, nor did I like his appearance on a round table type show with Eve Ensler with other coaches and men who were talking about the necessity...
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    What is the point of marriage?

    Thanks (Insert pensive music) Not on women must mans morality depend. Apply the same to women it must be. Happy marriage must you not seek for Christianity, though the result it may be. Imitation of Christ the purpose must be. Good was Christ, not always peasant to others. Mostly find we that...
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    What is the point of marriage?

    A man cannot make his life depend upon what women do. The same must apply to women. The purpose of Christianity in marriage is not to have a happy marriage, though that may happen as a result. The purpose is to live in imitation of Christ. Just as Christ was good but not always pleasing we may...
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    What is the point of marriage?

    inappropriate contentography is not really the problem. It is the result of the problem. The problem is that we live in a fallen world where most people do not value themselves or one another as God would have us do. Both men and women struggle with intimacy issues because as the Bible says we were conceived...
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    The fall of mankind = Gender inequality

    If submission to Christ is the model for submission to husbands, then we need to look at what submission to Christ was. First, it was not merely about obedience, but about being virtuous. So that looks like imitating Christ. In other words, being like Christ in marriage. Exercising patience...
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    Game Of Thrones: Too much smut to be worth watching?

    That is what I meant.
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    Game Of Thrones: Too much smut to be worth watching?

    That's fair. I would no more expect that of you than for someone who had been an alcoholic to hang around in a bar. I can respect that.
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    Game Of Thrones: Too much smut to be worth watching?

    Sex is easier to judge than how we bless the poor, look after the sick, teach people about Christ, are forgiving. You can point at perceived wrong behaviour. I find it interesting how the show demonstrates that it is hard to be good in a wicked world.
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    Game Of Thrones: Too much smut to be worth watching?

    Just because you are writing online and talking about strong beliefs does not entitle you to speak to others with contempt. I do not write my own views lightly but after very careful thought. I also wonder how much you actually know about wickedness or violence. It takes many forms, it is not...
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    Game Of Thrones: Too much smut to be worth watching?

    With all due respect to those who talk about it being inappropriate content--I don't think it is. I think that The Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated is more inappropriate contentographic. After all--do people really want to live in the world of Game of Thrones? Maybe some do, but I doubt it. The price of the skin is the...
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    Recently Divorced

    One tough thing for many divorced men is that their wife was their main person to be affectionate and intimate with. It is a very real loss to deal with. It's hard.
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    Teen step daughter chilling in our bed

    Keep it simple. Door open or ajar means 'come on in'. Door closed means privacy and you have to knock. If you do that with everyone's room--including kid's rooms after a certain age--it establishes mutual respect.
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    "No inappropriate contentography!" say liberal atheists.

    There is no verse in the Bible that says that. And this is a debate area, so people are allowed to disagree. inappropriate content for Christians falls more under the category of things to discourage for a Christian. Similar to charitable behavior, sexual chastity is more of an approach to a godly way of...
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    "No inappropriate contentography!" say liberal atheists.

    I think it's actually the other way around. Financial pressures, changes in the way that relationships work, the way that people have found that getting to know and pursue relations with the opposite sex and the ease of production on the Internet have simply increased demand. From what I...
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    A theory about sin.

    People have a strong desire generally for social acceptance and will often take it where the can get it. Adding other appetites will make it more tempting.
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    I am starting to see feminism differently

    I do not appreciate how you have responded. One of the things I despise about the internet is the way that people mock others for no real reason because there are no real consequences for it. I will bow out of this conversation entirely now.
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    I am starting to see feminism differently

    You know what--never mind. I'll edit it all out, and it will never have happened.
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    How should Christians view films such as Boys dont cry?

    I saw it. It's a sad movie. I think that even if you disagree with the lifestyle choices that the beating humiliation and rape was a terrible thing to do to someone. What I had originally posted I had meant to mean that the followers of Christ are not supposed to abuse people but are simply not...