So Just What Does it Mean to be Masculine or Feminine These Days, Anyway?

• Ephesians 5:22-24 ...wives should submit to their husbands etc.
• 1 Timothy 2:11-15 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent etc.
• 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ...women should remain silent in the churches (and following).
• 1 Corinthians 11:3-16 Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man (and following).
• Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
• Peter 3:1-6 Wives in the same way be submissive to your husbands (and following).
• Titus 2: 4-5 Then they can the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands so that no one will malign the word of God.

Oh and this one is just lovely:

"God smites women, children and often animals with equal gusto, he seems to equal evil and wrong doing by association, rather than by being guilty of the personal, individual act: "Behold with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." (II Chronicles 21:14-15)

Yes, you hate people and are filled with hateful remarks which come out of your darkened heart. The reason you are here is to mock, ridicule, malign, and show your hate for God.



And I believe you!



Thank you, I thought you wouldn't notice!



Well, I think you'd feel comfortable around those of your own ilk, accept for the fact most of them are going to experience eternal bliss, and you will suffer in a torment beyond your imagination for eternity.



I did exactly what Jesus would have me to do. You need to think hard and long about that.

Miss @Skyela have you read any of my post trying to explain Psalms 137:9 and similar verses for you?

or, am I being put on ignore?

I haven't been hateful. I think you should re-read what you've posted here. VERY un-Jesus like. You're a MEAN person. And yes, it's because of people like you that Christianity has a bad name.

Regardless of the subject here, don’t pay no attention to him. He’s been like that to me as well. I told him to be ashamed of himself.

Also, curious - do you speak out of turn in church?

"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church" Corinthians 14:34:-35

Or this one, promoting the murder of children who "misbehave"

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. Mark 9:42

Pretty outdated for our times, eh? So is the church's views on LGBTQ people.

I don't know if anyone has responded on these two yet...

To the first, my understanding is that Paul was quoting someone else. That statement is simply inconsistent with the rest of his teachings on gender, and there are hints to suggest that it is a quote.

To the second, you might want to read that carefully again. It isn't talking about murdering a child at all, but rather warning the (adult) one who misleads a child of the severe consequences of doing so.

Oh, gotta love this one too.

"Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!" - Psalm 137:9

hahaha. If someone tried to do that to one of my children, they'd be meeting their maker pretty darn quickly.

Consider the context! That's the first rule for properly understanding any part of the Bible. That psalm was written by someone who was taken forcibly from their home, probably saw their neighbours murdered, and was dragged off to a foreign country with essentially no hope of returning. Their entire way of life was destroyed. Their family members may have perished... horribly. Your closing comment should actually inform you of how the writer probably felt at the time.

Second, the Bible contains the full expression of human emotion, even to the point of wishing horrible death on one's enemies. We don't stay there though, and as Christians, we don't advocate such action at all.

If you think Christians take the entire Bible as an instruction book for today, you are simply wrong. Those who knew God, even under the "Old Testament law" said that He is "slow to anger and abounding in love".

Yes, I re-read it and saw that after. But still, I wonder if the punishment of death fits the crime? And what if it was another child who led another child astray?

Was this ever a "nice" thread to start with? I can go back to the beginning and point out several places where people were talking about how "un-feminine" and "un-masculine" people are, and how somehow they aren't seen as the same as everyone else, because they don't act or talk as their supposed to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I read.

I have nothing against any of you. Never did. I wish you all only good things. Bye

Bull. YOU started the arguments. And perpetuated them, on and on and on.