Please, lighten up Bisquick! This woman is one of the nicest on this site. You would know this by reading her inspiring and most interesting posts. She is also one of the most respectful and meant no harm to you. I believe you to be a good man and that you might consider offering to her a sincere, contrite apology.
A Husband's role
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The most interesting thing to me, and I do mean this in a respectful, but factual way, is being threatened with and told to prepare myself for emotional annihilation by someone who is, at the same time, trying to tell Christian women how they need to live and act, as well as what Christian men will expect from us (while chastising a Christian man who was trying to state his own viewpoints.)
Will a mature, Christian man threaten my feelings and then tell me he's being a gentleman to hold back because I'm too weak to handle it? I surely hope that's not the kind of Christian man whom God is preparing for me but I trust God has made me strong enough to handle whatever He has in store for me. After all, it's one of His promises.
It just makes me terribly discouraged that... a person who would say these things and also see themselves as an authority in the matter of who we are to be in Christ, especially women.
And, this is exactly why I voice my thoughts in such matters... because it's disheartening to me to see a beat-down being handed out along with a lecture.
Chandler, I'm sorry for derailing your thread. I truly do appreciate all your thoughts. Thank you for giving us Christian women hope that there are kind, loving, Christian men out there. And yes. When we see that in you... I think we won't mind making you a sandwich at all.
In fact, for a Christian man like that, it would be a true privilege and honor.
Will a mature, Christian man threaten my feelings and then tell me he's being a gentleman to hold back because I'm too weak to handle it? I surely hope that's not the kind of Christian man whom God is preparing for me but I trust God has made me strong enough to handle whatever He has in store for me. After all, it's one of His promises.
It just makes me terribly discouraged that... a person who would say these things and also see themselves as an authority in the matter of who we are to be in Christ, especially women.And, this is exactly why I voice my thoughts in such matters... because it's disheartening to me to see a beat-down being handed out along with a lecture.
Chandler, I'm sorry for derailing your thread. I truly do appreciate all your thoughts. Thank you for giving us Christian women hope that there are kind, loving, Christian men out there. And yes. When we see that in you... I think we won't mind making you a sandwich at all.
In fact, for a Christian man like that, it would be a true privilege and honor.
You obviously don't think you're wrong, even though we can prove it as a community. So why bother to apologize at all?
Furthermore, the women of this community do not have to take your "truth" to heart because you haven't provided ANY scripture to back up your words. If you bothered to provide biblical proof that pertained to the topic, then you might be received better.
Furthermore, the women of this community do not have to take your "truth" to heart because you haven't provided ANY scripture to back up your words. If you bothered to provide biblical proof that pertained to the topic, then you might be received better.
I prefer he use neutrality to get his point across. If not, then I will hold him accountable.
if i'm not mistaken, this is a thread about the husband's role, right? i think the comments were specific to that subject, and relevant in the sense that we are discussing husbands, and specific to one's personal views.
i would respectfully point out that you seem to be quick to belabor the plight of the downtrodden man underfoot the so-called "modern woman". everyone here seems to understand that men, women and families in general have paid a high price for the fallen world. nobody here is bashing men.
i could easily list several threads, in which you have criticized, openly insulted and generally offered nothing but highly biased feedback painting women in general as self-serving people who want to gang up on poor unsuspecting men and steal their lunch money.
suffice it to say, wherever women are being schooled, advised, criticized, or any other random "9 steps to being a good, modest, mature christian woman", you're there, sharing your piece about women from what appears to be a pretty cynical, critical world view.
i would kindly ask you to reconsider throwing around the terms "double standard" or "neutrality". or accountability.
i understand your views have been largely formed through the lens of your own perceptions, and and i am also willing to acknowledge that perhaps you are even unaware of the fact that you appear to hold such an obvious bias. but you cannot come here and cry about wanting neutrality, when you seem to be blinded by your own inability to recognize this concept.
on separate note, i'm grateful that we have several godly men whose words and character offer encouragement and reflect Christ's love and words in their deeds.