tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15450512.post6639340071526374732..comments2023-11-05T06:27:24.362-06:00Comments on A Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens: Wives, Obey Your Husbands (???)I Drink and I Know Things...http://www.blogger.com/profile/11608248895813409154noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15450512.post-16944359248600071592007-05-01T15:23:00.000-05:002007-05-01T15:23:00.000-05:00Why grant respect to the Bible by treating as anyt...Why grant respect to the Bible by treating as anything other than it is. A man-made book used to justify anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15450512.post-90838849014565426032007-01-01T10:49:00.000-06:002007-01-01T10:49:00.000-06:00Me... repress righteous indignation? Surely you k...Me... repress righteous indignation? Surely you know me better than that!!!!<br /><br />And Lisa, I really don't think very many people (some, but not many) are suggesting that Scripture is the unadulterated word of God. There can be good reasons for rejecting it, but please don't think that people of faith must believe that Scripture is the only way God is revealed. Or that Scripture is internally perfect. There's a contradiction practically on the first page; that's a little hard to miss ;)Andrea Rusinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07100786820614125551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15450512.post-67096453063532127342007-01-01T06:06:00.000-06:002007-01-01T06:06:00.000-06:00I'm particularly fond of Eddie Izzard's take on Pa...I'm particularly fond of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoBYYElyP4c">Eddie Izzard's take on Paul</a>. I especially like his non-literalist interpretations of Paul's commands, (e.g. "don't put jam on a magnet, never throw your granny in a bag...") and the fact that he has his Corinthians refer to Paul as, "that old moaner, St. Paul."jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752779296599153304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15450512.post-75937364625250397352006-12-31T21:09:00.000-06:002006-12-31T21:09:00.000-06:00This is one of the prime reasons I have rejected s...This is one of the prime reasons I have rejected scripture as "the word of God." <br /><br />If you read the history of how the books of the New Testament were chosen (or Not) and how the interpretations were influenced by the politics of the time, it's hard to accept that the scriptures are the unadulterated word of the Almighty...Lisa :-]https://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15450512.post-75413066238858884012006-12-31T19:33:00.000-06:002006-12-31T19:33:00.000-06:00I wondered if you were going to be able to repress...I wondered if you were going to be able to repress that.<br /><br />There's really no way to get around that passage. I could make a facetious argument that since the verb Paul uses (ὑποτάσσω) literally means to place or arrange beneath, what he's really saying is that the missionary position is the One True Way to have sex. Bet that'd get a few laughs if it ever came up in a homily!<br /><br />But seriously speaking, it really does mean "obey" or "be subservient to." It's supposed to be balanced by the next verse "Husbands, love your wives and do not irritate them," but the whole setup is so obviously shot through with outdated assumptions about the nature of the family and gender roles that I just lump it in with all the rest of the cultural baggage we have to filter out to get to the essentials of the Scriptures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com