Tim Sweetman is an 19-year-old journalist, blogger, and student who lives near our nation's capital,
Washington D.C. He is much more widely known by his "code-name," Agent Tim. This name also serves as
the name of his popular blog, which has received over 750,000 visits since its debut three years ago. Contact Tim here.I had trouble closing my dresser drawers this afternoon. I pushed harder on the thick padding of shirts and pants. No movement. It was full - really, really full. I tossed the remaining pieces of clothing from the neatly folded laundry pile back onto my bed.
Now I must interject, it’s not that this dresser [...]
September 18th, 2006 at 7:03 am
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September 18th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Hey Good post tim! I agree fully, what you said really shows how big of a downfall Adam and Eve took after the Garden of Eden.
September 19th, 2006 at 7:12 am
Hey Tim great post. Yeah I have seen woman trying to rule over there husbands. It disgust me too when I see passive husbands giving in to what there wife always wants.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
This is a great subject and John MacArthur is a wonderful author!
I agree with the fact that a wife is to submit to her husbands leadership. I have heard people jokingly say “The husband might be the head of the house, but the wife is the neck and can turn the head whatever way she wants.” I pesonally think that it is not something to joke about because it is somthing this world stuggles with. We all to often see difficulties in marrige that happen because of a wife not submitting to her husband.
I do have a question though,is there a point in a marrige were a husband can abuse his athority? Should the wife still obey?
September 21st, 2006 at 7:09 am
Tim-
I had the opportunity to meet you brother and see your grandfather again earlier this week. They were, as you know, at the Executive Committee meeting in Nashvegas.
Hope you guys are all doing well.
September 21st, 2006 at 12:00 pm
hey, i saw your blog in world magazine, and decided to check it out. your doing a great job….i like the articles. :yep:
September 27th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Hey, quick question about the Hebrew in Genesis. According to a scholar that I know, the Hebrew word for helper is ezer. He then told me that it is used 17 more times in the OT, each time referring only to God. Could you help me understand how a word that places Eve inferior to Adam can also be used to refer to God’s relationship to us?
September 27th, 2006 at 8:20 am
I should also point out that the scholar I refer to has a great deal of knowledge concerning Hebrew and Greek. So I consider his finidings to be valid unless presented with a counter, and then I’ll weigh the two.
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February 22nd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Andrew,
For some reason I didn’t see your comment. From what I’m seeing just from your comment, could it be that we are “lower” than God? We are finite, He is infinite. We are sinful, He is holy. So, we are “inferior” to Him. I’d have to study it much further, but that is an interesting question.
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March 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I agree that there are sex-based differences between men and women. (Obviously, a woman’s ability to build a baby in her womb and to give birth is a biggie, but there are plenty of other sex-based differences.)
But here’s the flip side: We tend to focus so much on the differences (and perhaps exaggerate them) that we forget that men and women have far more in common than not. We are more alike than we are different. After all, we are all members of the human race.
Just like you boys, girls have hopes and dreams and ambitions and talents that they want to use. And those hopes and dreams and ambitions are not necessarily that different from yours. Sometimes it can center around homemaking, but often it may be to compete in the Olympics or conduct scientific research that might cure a disease or to make a film or to honor God in the same multitide of ways that are available to men. Why would God want to put these talents of half the human race in a teeny little box centered around the home while giving men the whole world to roam?
It’s easy to blithely quote Bible verses about submission when they don’t apply to you. It’s also easy to look at girls as being SO different from you that they need to put in their place. Chris’s comment saddens me in particular: “It disgust me too when I see passive husbands giving in to what there wife always wants.” It is sad to view marriage as a power struggle in which someone must submit, and a husband is seen as “giving in” if his wife gets what she wants. Marriage can be a lot more than that, but it helps if both husband and wife view each other as fully human, with similar needs and drives, rather than members of alien species.
After all, the key thing all human beings need is respect.