babyangel said:
Exactly, call me naive but, in the times of the OT and NT I could see men treating woman horribily (slavery etc) and thus God wanted to protect them, Times really have not changed but I think woman/men have more legal protection now adays but situations did not change. Bad spouses still have hard hearts and deal trecherously with some. This would never be allowed in Gods eyes I do not care what some scripures teach in the (well I do but) they are many scriputures that do infact support what I am going through. In some view my husband may not be an unbelier as I think he is, but no one can convince me that he is not worse than an unbeliever. I hate doubting the bible and I do not anymore, but why do so many churches want to turn good Christian memebers away, yet some of them are not following the bible themselves. They just follow what suits their needs.
Thats the problem with these doctrines out there.
As I stated, some adhere to the letter of 4 passages or so, yet ignore the context of the whole bible on the matters of Justice and Mercy.
Jesus shows a lawbreaker mercy when he defends Davids breaking of the law out of absolute necessity.
Wives dont always set out to sin, just like a hungry David did not.
But circumstance and extraordinary need permitted David to do what he wasnt lawfully allowed to do.
I just wonder if those that believe in this doctrine have even bothered to see that its women having to be protected from men in both the OT and the NEW.
That ought to tell them something as far as what their teaching.
A God who had Moses and the Christ BOTH come to the wives defence surely wouldnt be a God who would have them sit back and take abuse 2 millenia later.
"I desired Mercy and not sacrifice"
That one really blew me away when I first caught on to the depth of it.
We look at the OT, sacrifce throughout.
Then Jesus using it when His disciples were hungry is just awesome.
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
(Matthew 12:1-8 KJV)
Jesus is also the Lord of marriages.
I just dont see how one could believe that Hed put those pharisees in their place about just casting thier wives aside over hardness of their hearts, the turn around and allow them to beat and abuse the same wives.
Its just doesnt fit the context of who Jesus Christ was and is and shall always be.
As in that passage, extraordinary need requires extraordinary measures.