[Vision2020] 01-23-06 Daily Times-Call: Group examines religion's role in domestic violence

[John D]

Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
  
  > The Daily Times-Call
  > "Their church leaders would say, ‘Pray about it, and God will intervene,’ or
  > worse yet, that the Bible calls them to submit to their husbands as they would
  > submit to Christ," Ebbers said.
  > He said such advice is based on Bible verses taken out of context.
  
  Context? Can someone please explain the contexts of these verses?
  
  Genesis 3:16
 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203:16;&version=9;
  
  1 Corinthians 14:34-35
 "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2014:34-35;&version=9;
  
  Colossians 3:18
  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%203:18;&version=9;
  "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord."
  
  1 Timothy 2:11-12
  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%202:11-12;&version=9;
 "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
  
  1 Peter 3
  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Peter%203;&version=9;
 "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives"
  

		
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