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Re: The Backside to Submission
I don't think Biblical submission is anything like what people have made it in some circles. Submission is NOT:
always looking at the ground and never meeting anyone's eyes
allowing abuse of any kind-verbal, emotional, or physical
never saying anything to contradict or question an "authority"
Submission cannot be beaten into a person, does not mean breaking that person's will, and will never be forced.
Submission is completely voluntary, and can only occur when the one submitting truly trusts and respects, and is loved and respected by, the one being submitted to. Because true submission is voluntary, it does not happen between two people who do not consider themselves equals. If there is inequality, there is no need for submission, only leadership. And if there is equality without mutual respect and love, there is no place for submission, but only dictatorship.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
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