Marriage Is the Unity of Christ And the Church

Undoubedly, the world is trying to teach us if we do not accept two men or two women as a legitimate marriage, we are bigoted, foolish, and insecure.

Marriage is much easier to understand when seen as the perfect image of Christ's marriage to His bride, the church.

God created marriage to be a mannifesation of His relationship with us. He wanted us to be one with him, just as He and the Father are one. We are one as man and woman, just as we are one with Him. The woman submits to the man as the church submits to Christ. Man lays down his life for his bride just as Christ lays down his life for the church. It's odd to think of the woman as having authority over the man, just as it is odd to think of the church as having authority over Christ.

Physically, water gives life. Dead bodies are dried up and hard. Living things have water in them, are soft and fluid. The woman's body submits to the man's body, who comes into her and gives her his fluid. She can't receive it of her own free will. Similarly, the church submits to the Living Water, which produces spiritual life within the body of the church. The church cannot save itself, or give life to itself of its own free will. It is the will of God that Salvation and new life come into us.

Every miniscule nuance that can be seen between a husband and wife can be seen in the relationship between Christ and His bride, the church.

Please give me some suggestions of peculiarities in marriage, and I'll show you how that aspect of marriage is realized spiritually between Christ and the church.

State-Sponsered Indoctrination For People Who Want Guns

"A Florida legislator wants anyone trying to buy ammunition to complete an anger management program first, in what critics say is the latest example of local lawmakers reaching for constitutionally-dubious solutions to the problem of gun violence."

Published March 06, 2013

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/06/florida-lawmaker-wants-anger-management-courses-for-ammunition-buyers/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews#ixzz2MsrfXbAk

This is just one legislator proposing his or her ideas. Hopefully, this won't be put into law. What is really sad about this is what I discovered when going through state-sponsered anger mangement classes. These state-sponsered anger management programs are based on  Feminism, more specifically the Deluth Model, and Feminism actually yields violence.

Feminism actually tries to teach men to treat women more like men, and erase gender inequality. But if a man tries to erase gender inequality from his mind, does he see the woman as a man, or does he act more like a woman himself? Sadly, men try to accommodate for Feminism both ways. The ideology also teaches that men are inherently prone to violence against women because men are physically larger. But men often resort to violence when in conflict with another man.

God has given both genders equal rights to the Kingdom of Heaven, and gives each of them equally rewarding and fulfilling roles on earth. There are many ways that men and women can share in the same tasks here on Earth, but many ways in which they can't. Childbirth is the most ovbvious example, and leadership at church also comes to mind, according to many passages in the New Testament. I know that many Christians who also try to embrace Feminism will hate to hear that, but the Bible is very clear about male leadership at church, and we should try to understand why, not ignore it.

In my time in the anger management programs, I actually felt less sensitive and compassionate toward my wife, and more temptation to argue with her, expecially in proving her wrong. I felt that I was recently armed with valuable insight from my anger management counselor, and that my wife needed a lesson. I also remember the temptation that since I presumed she already knew this - because I had to take the class and not her - then it wouldn't be a problem to say it sternly, or with punishing words.

In the two examples that I give of gender inequality, the female example is the utmost of our carnal experience on Earth, and the male example is the utmost of our spiritual earthly experience. Both the spiritual and carnal are part of being a human being.

Lastly, I would like to add that Feminism is a wordly response to a spiritual problem. When faith weakens, the world reacts in all kinds of weird ways. They don't have direction. But God uses the shake-up to strengthen the Elect and show His glory. We know from Matthew 24 that the world is a very wicked, evil place at the end, and we are always progressing (liberal action word) toward that end. The right response is repentance, pouring out the heart, seeking the Lord's face with a humble heart. He said that he will hear from Heaven, heal us, and heal our land! There are always good blessings in store for the ones who are meek and humble in the Lord!