Crimes against women fall under four broad categories: Physical, Mental, Emotional and Financial. Women from all strata of society are mistreated.
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY : Colossians 3:18 says "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly".
The great Paul was a very PRACTICAL TEACHER. And here he turns to the working out of Christianity in the everyday relationships of life and living. The CHRISTIAN ETHIC is an ethic of reciprocal obligation. It is never an ethic on which all the duties are on one side.The rights and the obligations rest with every man. As Paul saw it, husbands have as great an obligation as wives. It is an ethic of mutual responsibility, therefore, it becomes an ethic where the thought of privilege and rights falls into the background and where the thought of duty and obligation becomes paramount.
Under Jewish law a woman was a thing, the possession of her husband, just as much as his house or his flocks or his material goods. She had no legal rights whatever; A husband could divorce his wife for any cause, while a wife had no rights whatever in the initiation of divorce; and the only grounds on which a divorce might be awarded her were if her husband developed leprosy, became an apostate or ravished a virgin. In Greek society a respectable woman lived a life of entire seclusion. She never appeared on the streets alone, not even to go shopping, She lived in the women's apartments and did not join her menfolk even for meals. From her there was demanded complete servitude and chastity; but her husband could go out as much as he chose and could enter into as many relationships outside marriage as he liked without incurring any stigma. Under both Jewish and Greek laws and custom all the privileges belonged to the husband and all the duties to the wife.
NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. ISN'T IT?
Into this situation, God sent Paul and see how beautifully he brings a solution to the problem. I am amazed by Paul for here Paul, a bachelor is advising married couples !!! THIS IS ONLY GOD'S DOING. Halleluia !! God put so much into Paul. I thank God for Paul.
THE WHOLE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE IS LIVED IN CHRIST. IN ANY HOME THE TONE OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS MUST BE DICTATED BY THE AWARENESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS AN UNSEEN BUT EVER-PRESENT GUEST.
The wife is to be submissive to her husband; BUT THE HUSBAND IS TO LOVE HIS WIFE AND TO TREAT HER WITH ALL KINDNESS !!! The practical effect of the marriage laws and customs of ancient times was that the husband became an unquestioned dictator and the wife little more than a servant to bring up his children and to minister to his needs. The fundamental effect of this CHRISTIAN TEACHING is that marriage becomes a partnership. It become something which is entered into not merely for the convenience of the husband, but in order that both husband and wife may find a new joy and a new completeness in each other. Any marriage in which everything is done for the convenience of one of the partners and where the other exists simply to gratify the needs and desires of the first, is not a Christian Marriage.
MARRIAGES ARE MEANT TO BE COMPLEMENTARY - TWO PULLING TOGETHER AS ONE, NOT IN COMPETITION, BUT IN MUTUAL ASSOCIATION. LEARNING HOW TO WORK TOGETHER AND HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER IS THE "MAINTENANCE" OF LOVE. THE BIBLE SAYS IN ECCLESIASTES 4.9 "TWO PEOPLE CAN ACCOMPLISH MORE THAN TWICE AS MUCH AS ONE; THEY GET A BETTER RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR.
So then, didn't I say that the BIBLE has got solution to all our problems. You name the problem and the BIBLE will pop up a solution. I love you LORD for empowering the various authors of the Bible by your HOLY SPIRIT to write what YOU wanted them to write. Thank you for the WORD written by you. We would be lost without IT.
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY : Colossians 3:18 says "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly".
The great Paul was a very PRACTICAL TEACHER. And here he turns to the working out of Christianity in the everyday relationships of life and living. The CHRISTIAN ETHIC is an ethic of reciprocal obligation. It is never an ethic on which all the duties are on one side.The rights and the obligations rest with every man. As Paul saw it, husbands have as great an obligation as wives. It is an ethic of mutual responsibility, therefore, it becomes an ethic where the thought of privilege and rights falls into the background and where the thought of duty and obligation becomes paramount.
Under Jewish law a woman was a thing, the possession of her husband, just as much as his house or his flocks or his material goods. She had no legal rights whatever; A husband could divorce his wife for any cause, while a wife had no rights whatever in the initiation of divorce; and the only grounds on which a divorce might be awarded her were if her husband developed leprosy, became an apostate or ravished a virgin. In Greek society a respectable woman lived a life of entire seclusion. She never appeared on the streets alone, not even to go shopping, She lived in the women's apartments and did not join her menfolk even for meals. From her there was demanded complete servitude and chastity; but her husband could go out as much as he chose and could enter into as many relationships outside marriage as he liked without incurring any stigma. Under both Jewish and Greek laws and custom all the privileges belonged to the husband and all the duties to the wife.
NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. ISN'T IT?
Into this situation, God sent Paul and see how beautifully he brings a solution to the problem. I am amazed by Paul for here Paul, a bachelor is advising married couples !!! THIS IS ONLY GOD'S DOING. Halleluia !! God put so much into Paul. I thank God for Paul.
THE WHOLE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE IS LIVED IN CHRIST. IN ANY HOME THE TONE OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS MUST BE DICTATED BY THE AWARENESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS AN UNSEEN BUT EVER-PRESENT GUEST.
The wife is to be submissive to her husband; BUT THE HUSBAND IS TO LOVE HIS WIFE AND TO TREAT HER WITH ALL KINDNESS !!! The practical effect of the marriage laws and customs of ancient times was that the husband became an unquestioned dictator and the wife little more than a servant to bring up his children and to minister to his needs. The fundamental effect of this CHRISTIAN TEACHING is that marriage becomes a partnership. It become something which is entered into not merely for the convenience of the husband, but in order that both husband and wife may find a new joy and a new completeness in each other. Any marriage in which everything is done for the convenience of one of the partners and where the other exists simply to gratify the needs and desires of the first, is not a Christian Marriage.
MARRIAGES ARE MEANT TO BE COMPLEMENTARY - TWO PULLING TOGETHER AS ONE, NOT IN COMPETITION, BUT IN MUTUAL ASSOCIATION. LEARNING HOW TO WORK TOGETHER AND HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER IS THE "MAINTENANCE" OF LOVE. THE BIBLE SAYS IN ECCLESIASTES 4.9 "TWO PEOPLE CAN ACCOMPLISH MORE THAN TWICE AS MUCH AS ONE; THEY GET A BETTER RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR.
So then, didn't I say that the BIBLE has got solution to all our problems. You name the problem and the BIBLE will pop up a solution. I love you LORD for empowering the various authors of the Bible by your HOLY SPIRIT to write what YOU wanted them to write. Thank you for the WORD written by you. We would be lost without IT.
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