Comments on: Different By Design Part 2

By: A different view

A different view — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:05:42 +0000

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.

By: Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand

Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:09:51 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:57:14 +0000

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.

By: Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand

Agent Tim Online :: Culture And Theology--Hand In Hand — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:25:57 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:20:21 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:12:47 +0000

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?

By: Christine Haitel

Christine Haitel — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000

hey, i saw your blog in world magazine, and decided to check it out. your doing a great job….i like the articles. :yep:

By: Marty Duren

Marty Duren — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:09:30 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:24:50 +0000

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?

By: Chris McCarthy

Chris McCarthy — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:12:28 +0000

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.