Subj : A Woman's View
To   : ALL
From : DENISE LENORE
Date : Sun Jun 25 2000 12:13 am

The passage you mention about the one wife is spoken by St. Paul who first
states it would be better for neither to marry, but if one burns, then it
would be
better to marry.  He the admonishes Bishops of the church to have one wife.

The picture of multiple wives in the OT indicate the primary problem men
have
with multiple wives, they hate each other.  The man is content, the wives
are not. The husband can be vexed by this.  Solomon had a thousand wives
and at the end of it all he has to say is "An excellent wife, who can find".

It is interesting that God in the Scripture doesn't seem to tell his opinion
about marriages and wives, but the Bible certainly paints a picture of
the dynamics between the two.

For Adam knowing the command of the Lord, ate of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil upon the offering by Eve.   Eve was not given the command.
Eve was not there, Adam was.   Adam surrendered his relationship to God
over Eve.  I think men still do.  Few men actually follow after God.  80% of
the church attendance is women.

As for the modern cultural revolution that has thrust women into an
untenable
role of trying to be the right wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, mother and
still find some way of expressing the very nature God created in her to be
has been an extremely tough road to walk down. Casualities lie all along
the way.

I personally respect the roles God gave to Man as head and Woman as
an equal to share life with.  I often find "Christian Men" really not acting
like the Man I see Christ act like toward the Samarian woman, toward
his mother, toward Mary Magdalene, toward Mary and Martha, toward
his bride the church.  There is a Scripture that states that Jesus
surrendered
his right that he had before the father, not making light of his authority
and submitted himself to the Father.  If a man would spend his time
addressing that submission to the Father, he would discover a deeper
respect and love for a fellow creature, his wife.

But lest you forget, we still live in a world where amnio centesis is used
to determine if the fetus is a girl and aborted in India. Wives of
Brazillian
men are still considered chattel and able to be beaten, abused and murdered
without conviction by the courts against the husband. In China the word
for daughter is "little happiness", while the word for son is "big
happiness".
Many men still want a first born to be a son.  In the middle east woman
are denied rights and have their faces covered.  In Africa there are
tribes that practice castration of women so they will never experience
pleasure.  This is the background and atmosphere in which women
afraid for their lives all their lives , live with.  How we become fully
articulate children of God, is truly a mystery and a mercy from Christ
alone.


Darren Gould wrote in message <7il3b8$3o5$1@news.fdma.com>...
>Hello All,
>I was watching 60 minutes a few weeks ago and this man was on defending
>the fact that he had 4 different wives, all at the same time.  He
>defended this as a biblically sound thing to do.  At the time I was
>reading through Genesis and God didn't seem to have any problem with
>this as well as many other sexually immoral things.
>
>I don't agree with this man's philosophy by any stretch of the
>imagination but I was wondering where it is that the bible states that a
>man is to marry 1 woman?  I know passages that say a man is to leave his
>parents home and move into a home with his wife, but this isn't
>specifically saying anything against having more than 1 wife.  If the
>bible doesn't state this directly then where does it indirectly come
>from?
>
>Just wonderin'
>
>In Him,
>Darren
>
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