I've heard from a lot of women (including on this very site) how they don't need a man for security, they're perfectly capable of providing for themselves - and that's fine by me, I respect those willing to go out and earn.
I also respect those who want a man to provide for them, that's fine too; but what about when he's no longer able to provide through redundancy or poor health? And what are you offering in return for this provision?
If you want to put conditions on being with someone then don't be surprised if they add a few of their own! There's a reason for the words "...for richer, for poorer; for better, for worse..." at a wedding - it underlines that the love should be unconditional because only then will it last the trials of life.
Yes, TBK - redundancy is the British-English term for a lay off (though distinct from dismissal or retirement). If you know anyone who's travelled around England (let alone the UK itself), they'll testify to the huge number of regional dialects and accents we have. A case in point is the bread part of a burger which must have at least six different names around Britain!
Dkj, I understand... I wasn't really remarking on provision, and men and women gender roles. Indeed what the Lord had in mind for the different sexes is unique and important unto themselves. Women stay and raise the children and provide a warm and comfortably inviting home for their husbands, that is sort of the point of it all though is that a couple in marriage need each other. Men (I thought) want a wife to come home to, a hug and a kiss, dinner... That sort of atmospheric feeling of not having to be alone, rather having someone there who wants to be a place of rest.
I was just curious if people thought of marrying someone they hardly knew, rather, promising to spend the rest of their life with someone they don't know if it practically suited them. The same could be asked of a man, would you think of marrying someone who was physically beautiful to behold not knowing her that well, if she had the promise of providing those things a wife ought to?
Again I'm sorry for not being specific. I think men and women as the Lord meant their roles to be, have difficulties to face in their own ways. For the record, love to me means that if my future spouse got laid off his job, got run over by a car and laid in a coma I didn't know he'd come out of that I would take care of him and love him, respect him as if he were walking around me able-bodied
"...for richer, for poorer; for better, for worse..." at a wedding - it underlines that the love should be unconditional because only then will it last the trials of life. "
I'm sorry for seeming melodramatic in that last bit there, I meant to convey my reasoning/feelings on the subject to better give an idea of why I asked the initial question.
On another note, I love English accents, especially Essex ones.. And for some reason cockney accents, but every English friend I ever had hates cockney accents. I like the different names you have for everything, especially for the foods you eat.
What does the bible say on what is expected of a husband or a wife? Please do not let "the world" define who God has called you to be. It does not matter how "we" feel or what " we " think but what the bible says.
The idea of going back to work 6 weeks after my child is born and giving my child to be raised by a stranger makes me cringe.
The idea of this stranger imparting "their" views on my kids is disturbing.
I would like to meet and marry a man who understands what God has called him to be in the home and is now preparing to be the bread winner. He understands raising kids is more important than "stuff".
The bible says if a man lacks wisdom "ask". There are ways to live on one income. There are people today doing so.
For me if I should have kids in the future I am saving and looking into alternatives (working from home) etc.
Live BELOW your means and you can accomplish a lot!
This is for anyone and everyone here who thinks that a job, money or a home is required to marry...
Top 5 Places NOT To Be In A Dollar Collapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKB07SImil0
All of you need to start learning to hunt, fish, and learn real survival (bushcraft) skills. (Ray Mears on YouTube is a good starting point)
The status quo of discussing the weather, giving opinions, debating vain points of theology will get you nowhere but starving and in a bread line...or worse.
Revelation 13:16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Revelation 14
Doom for Worshipers of the Beast
9 Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, �If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and [h]whoever receives the mark of his name.� 12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
The only way you will have any security (what you are presently used to) until Christ returns is by taking the MOB. And then you will end up an enemy of the Lord, and you will be 'plagued' as well, so your security is short lived at best.
95% or more of you who are reading this WILL take the MOB.
(And no it's not an exact figure, and no I won't be winning any popularity contests by saying this)
I apologize for the direct (lack of sugar coating) delivery of this unpleasantness. The Lord never said it would be fun or easy, just real, everlasting and true.
For what I see most Americanised christians believe in the pretrib rapture.
I am not one of them.
The gymnastics to say Jesus is coming for His church then coming with His church is absurd.
To say that the elect mentioned through the trib is Israel. Is absurd.
I wounder how you will hunt without being able to buy a licence? How will you be able to have a place to live without having your own land?
If you cant pay taxs you wont have land.
Land where a colony will be able to set up just doesnt exist any more.
I personally belive the govenrment will institute the beheadding because in their eyes that would be the humane thing to do. Rather than us suffering from starvation and such.
If I am around when that happens I would glady with song step to the front of the line with my family.
I personally believe the scripture where they mock and say where is the promise of His Coming will be some of those who are looking for the rapture now.
I see the defeat and disshearteness in many of the pretrib believers. Even their prachers.
