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I'm not really talking about subservience, in my eyes. There is no outside authority that says I should submit to him or that it's my place, it's just the natural role I feel I should fill. It's just how I see marriage should be. I do feel like the father should be the head of the household but that doesn't mean we wouldn't be equals. My fiancee was surprised too, and a little apprehensive about it. I can't understand why this would be subservience. The thing is, he doesn't expect this right I give whole heartedly, and that's exactly why he deserves it. I'm not saying I'm going to be subservient in any way (I'm too head strong), I just feel that as the wife my job is to support my husband always. His decisions are mine too, but if we differ in our opinions after long discussions, I'm willing to follow him wherever he chooses to go, so long as he knows my opinion on the matter. Because I trust him, because I know that he is capable and worthy of making big decisions--with my help, always. I'm never going to let him make them alone, of course. But my marriage is far more important than a disagreement. In life there isn't always one path leading to the destination, there's many. Just because we don't go my way doesn't mean it's not the right way, you know? I grew up living disagreements, and I don't want that for my children. Doesn't mean I'm going to give up my equality, he wouldn't have that and neither would I. It just means that I feel my role in marriage is to support him in whatever endeavors he wishes to seek just as he does for me, and in the end I'm not going to draw a line in the sand if I don't think it's 100% the right way to go--because I could be wrong. I'm not talking about day to day decisions, just in the extreme situations in life that tend to come up. Again, not subservience in my eyes to trust and love my husband with all my heart.
As for being stuck in nasty ways--my dad isn't a branch of anything. He just read the bible, and interpreted it as he did. Extremism was taught to him when I was a baby, yes. By many different denominations. But he's not the only christian I've known to interpret it that way, either. Men from all sorts of denominations (even Baptists) that I've known (even pastors) expect this right in their marriages and some like my father demand it with a finger on the bible. The level of demand differs from person to person, and I'm not saying that all their marriages are unhappy or that their wives are treated unfairly. It's just sad to me that it's assumed the wife is to submit to her husband because of what a book says on the matter. In the end, now my dad lives a very lonely life. I'm the only person on this earth that talks to him.
I'm not really talking about subservience, in my eyes. There is no outside authority that says I should submit to him or that it's my place, it's just the natural role I feel I should fill. It's just how I see marriage should be. I do feel like the father should be the head of the household but that doesn't mean we wouldn't be equals. My fiancee was surprised too, and a little apprehensive about it. I can't understand why this would be subservience. The thing is, he doesn't expect this right I give whole heartedly, and that's exactly why he deserves it. I'm not saying I'm going to be subservient in any way (I'm too head strong), I just feel that as the wife my job is to support my husband always. His decisions are mine too, but if we differ in our opinions after long discussions, I'm willing to follow him wherever he chooses to go, so long as he knows my opinion on the matter. Because I trust him, because I know that he is capable and worthy of making big decisions--with my help, always. I'm never going to let him make them alone, of course. But my marriage is far more important than a disagreement. In life there isn't always one path leading to the destination, there's many. Just because we don't go my way doesn't mean it's not the right way, you know? I grew up living disagreements, and I don't want that for my children. Doesn't mean I'm going to give up my equality, he wouldn't have that and neither would I. It just means that I feel my role in marriage is to support him in whatever endeavors he wishes to seek just as he does for me, and in the end I'm not going to draw a line in the sand if I don't think it's 100% the right way to go--because I could be wrong. I'm not talking about day to day decisions, just in the extreme situations in life that tend to come up. Again, not subservience in my eyes to trust and love my husband with all my heart.
As for being stuck in nasty ways--my dad isn't a branch of anything. He just read the bible, and interpreted it as he did. Extremism was taught to him when I was a baby, yes. By many different denominations. But he's not the only christian I've known to interpret it that way, either. Men from all sorts of denominations (even Baptists) that I've known (even pastors) expect this right in their marriages and some like my father demand it with a finger on the bible. The level of demand differs from person to person, and I'm not saying that all their marriages are unhappy or that their wives are treated unfairly. It's just sad to me that it's assumed the wife is to submit to her husband because of what a book says on the matter. In the end, now my dad lives a very lonely life. I'm the only person on this earth that talks to him.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.