alit53 said:
I agree with all your points, but not sure about this third one. I mean we are much more entertained and educated; however, I think some of this trips us up. These are the differences I was referring to in regards to "women of old" in the Bible. We are relieved of the drudgery of housework due to modern appliances and can wind down with television or Facebook, but sometimes those things take us away from our husband, too. It is like Scripture says about it being harder for a rich man to surrender than a poor man. Biblical women were brought up to be submissive, so it was already expected of them since they were girls. For many of us on this site, the first step is clearing our brains of what we were taught since birth.
) and that is the concept of looking backwards through several cultural prisms in order to create our paradigm of submission. We start our look back through time and can conclude that if we were just like pioneer women, or Victorian women, or Southern women, or the sturdy women of the Dark Ages, or, fill in the blank, then we'd have this submission thang nailed. And while there are certainly truths to be taken from each era or culture, or from the lives of women like Jeanne Guyon, the bottom line is that our timeless example of submission is Yeshua Himself. No one ever, in the history of the planet, did it better, and as saints on this side of Calvary, we can look to heaven with confidence that "help is on the way" if we ask for it and yield to it. :idea: