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Originally Posted by Lost and Found
 
CONTEXT!! CONTEXT!! Here is what it says in CONTEXT:
Here, this may be easier:
Sister, your usage of Paul's writing is completely out of context. Paul is speaking of a family's reasonability to monetarily take care of the widows in their family.
Reading passages out of context leads to all kinds of unbiblical things. Even to believing that Jesus thinks it is okay for His kids to kill people.  |
See, I knew you'd say I was taking it out of context, but I don't believe Paul was admonishing men to care only monetarily for their own family.
See, perhaps that's what he meant in speaking about others, like the widows and fatherless, but he didn't say that one was worse than an infidel for not providing for those people.
Paul wasn't specific, except to say that if a man doesn't provide (this is an action verb here), he is worse than an infidel. I don't believe Paul was just referring to monetary commitment by the man to his family. Men do that all the time but don't care for their families in any other way. I call them 'deadbeat dads', even if they do pay the child support.
According to you, as long as the support is made, the man is ok. Well, he's not. He's not providing for his own in all the other ways necessary, thus he is worse than an infidel, as Paul said.
Men are not admonished to care for others the same way they provide for their own.
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