Awesome

DISCLAIMER:  This might make you angry/frustrated... But not me.

        So tonight, Rebekah made me go to a women's bible study through Aletheia.  They, well, we, are doing a series on marriage, sexuality, divorce and related topics.  It was just so awesome sitting in a circle with a dozen or so other girls who share beliefs with me.  At first, I thought it was just going to be a decent study with nothing too touchy, until we were talking about Genesis 2:23-24. It reads,

The man said, 

"This is now bone of my bone 

and flesh of my flesh; 

she shall be called 'woman'

for she was taken out of man."

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

and they will become one flesh.

        We talked about what it meant to leave your father and mother as a woman, and one of the girls said something along the lines of, "It means your parents are no longer in charge of your life. They don't have authority over you." Mary, the leader, interjected there and said, "Yes, because your husband does now."  I just sat there and smiled.  It's nice to know that I am not the only woman (along with Rebekah) who really believes that women are to submit to their husbands.  Men are to be the heads of the households. 

There is a hefty analogy in Ephesians which I love and take to heart.  It says, 

"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stair or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.  In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself  After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church -- for we are members of his body." 

-Ephesians 5:22-30

        Wow.  So much is said here.  Wives, submit to your husbands.  I mean, I'm pretty sure that means that we are to obey them, which gives them authority over us.  He is head of his wife.  I just don't understand how women have issues with this.  Men are to treat their wives as Christ treats the church.  I know Christ always gives me more than I need, or even realize I want.  Why would I ever have any issue submitting to someone who was going to love me, care for me, treat me with respect, never hurt me, and protect me?  If you can give me a legit answer, by all means, let me know. 

        I guess it just baffles me how people can be "Christians" but ignore whatever they deem "outdated" because the Bible is old.  I, for one, believe the Bible is truth.  It is perfect.  Not all of it is happy and joyful and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  It challenges us.  It gives us hope.  It motivates us.  I, for one, believe the Word. 

        I for one, will be going back to this Bible study :)