tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10948559.post51382346305320448..comments2024-02-08T21:51:21.368-06:00Comments on Emotional Abuse and Your Faith: Submit to your husbandHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165967476661656865noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10948559.post-82905363462491886532009-08-25T17:15:21.769-05:002009-08-25T17:15:21.769-05:00I agree that changing scripture is not the answer....I agree that changing scripture is not the answer. I think the problem with these people (and the church at large) is that they have ALREADY cut 2 Cor. 3:5-6 out of their Bibles. It states: "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God; who hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, and the Spirit giveth life."<br /><br />They are focusing on the LETTER of the law rather than the SPIRIT. If they interpret these Scripture by the letter--that marriage is some sort of master/servant relationship where a woman must put up with abuse--then the woman's spirit is going to be killed. Just like the verse says.<br /><br />If they would only focus on the spirit of the law--for example, I believe the spirit of God's law is that wives never put up with abuse--they would realize that they don't need to interpret these passages as condoning abuse or a master/servant relationship because that was not the spirit that was ever intended. The spirit is that husbands and wives have a mutual, trusting relationship, and that they use their God-given abilities as interpreters of the New Testatment to figure out what works for them to make their marriage work. And when there is abuse in the marriage, one party must use that abiliity, in conjunction with the Spirit, to decide what to do next. <br /><br />This means churches need to stop handing down cookie-cutter versions of what they think an Ephesians 5 marriage should look.zoeygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08864007210607764555noreply@blogger.com