Building Strong Families

11:9 (NASB) he writes, “for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.” Eve’s role, and the ...

sense of “desire, urge, impulse against” (or perhaps “desire to conquer, desire to rule over”), and that sense well fits Genesis ...

Eve’s particular area of responsibility, the bearing of children: “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain yo ...

of Genesis 3:16 is correct, then we would expect to find in the New Testament a reversal of this curse, an undoing of the wife’s ...

relationship, Adam represents Christ and Eve represents the church, because “the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is th ...

to be wise. She prays, she loves God, she is sensitive to the Lord’s leading and direction, and I greatly respect her and the wi ...

The biblical ideal, in the center column, is loving, humble head- ship on the part of the husband, following Ephesians 5:23-33. ...

Now we all have different backgrounds, personalities, and tem- peraments. We also have different areas of life in which sanctifi ...

ated role as a “helper fit for him” (Gen. 2:18) also supports this distinc- tion of roles. I do not think a wife would be fulfil ...

in many families there is a temporary reversal of roles due to invol- untary unemployment or while the husband is getting furthe ...

But this is not what the verse says. To say that we are “one” means that we are united,that there should be no factions or divis ...

act differently according to their different roles, and marriage in Scripture from beginning to end is intended by God to be onl ...

However, egalitarians mean something so different by this phrase, and they have used this phrase so often to nullify male author ...

Testament is always used of submission to an authority. Here are some examples: Jesus was subject (“obedient”) to the authority ...

persons where it does not carry the sense of being subject to an authority. I have been asking a particular question in one form ...

those who are early should wait for the others, who are late. Here again, all∑lousmeans “some to others,” or “some” are to wait ...

points, valuing each others’ gifts, wisdom, and desires, honoring one another in public and in private, and always seeking to br ...

The Roman emperor is called the “head” of the people. The god Zeus is called the “head” of all things. David as king of Israel ...

since I did not have the financial resources to carry out a full-scale revision. I have no time at the moment to discuss all you ...

KEYISSUE3: THEEQUALITY ANDDIFFERENCESBETWEEN MEN ANDWOMENREFLECT THEEQUALITY AND DIFFERENCES IN THETRINITY This point is at the ...