Analysis Of Ephesians 5 : How Deep Can Love Go? Who Would You Die?

The Book of Philippians was written by the apostle Paul from a prison somewhere, no one is quite sure where. It is the eleventh book in the New Testament. The letter was written around 57 A.D. while Paul was awaiting his release from prison. He was writing to the Church of Philippi in Macedonia. According to the Acts 16:9-40, Paul helped established the Church and community in the town of Philippi.

Since this document was written by one man, solely to his wife, it is only taking into consideration his viewpoint. Therefore, this document could be very biased and only be relatable to certain people due to the fact that there are many viewpoints that are left out. These viewpoints were left out because this document was originally only intended to be seen by his wife. This text could differ in that other men may desire different duties or qualities in their wife. For example, if a man did not believe in God, then he probably would not ask his wife to gain the love of God and gain the salvation of her

The book of Ephesians is one of Paul’s many New Testament letters, or epistles, to the Christian church still in its infancy. At the time of its writing, Paul is in Rome, imprisoned for championing the purposes of Christ and growing the church. We see numerous occurrences where Paul, being a man of little concern for the status quo, is either imprisoned or fleeing capture by Jewish or Roman officials for usurping the latter (Acts 19: 23-41). The date of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is dated 60-61A.D., depending on differing research. While this is certainly one of his epistles known as the “prison letters”, Ephesians was penned prior to Paul’s first roman

"Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior."

“A woman 's submission to her husband is rooted in the word of God calling her to be, for the Lord sake, submissive to him. Which means she always has a higher allegiance mainly to

The first topic I will touch on is gender roles. Similarly, to answer one, this topic can be argued from both perspectives. For those that oppose strict gender roles, it is said that adhering to strict gender roles can cause a relationship to be bound by repression and manipulation (Evans 2016). Rachel Evans argues that if couples adhere to following strict roles, they will inhibit honest communication. Evans entire argument centers around refuting author John Piper, who believe women should be completely submissive and forbids them from saying “lets” with their husbands, out of fear of manipulation. Evans writes that we shouldn’t “try to force first century societal norms onto modern-day marriages”. The rules of the Old Testament are from a patriarchal society. Our society today is no longer like that, so it only follows that women shouldn’t be as submissive. Women today have more power than those in ancient times. Evans argues that if both parties look to the example of Jesus, decisions can be made together, with mutual humility, gentleness

The effect is how we live our lives to glorify God for saving us and making us new (Duvall 71).

Throughout the Bible the four gospel writers talk about being loyal to your spouse. What these writers talk about also refers back to the tenth commandment. The tenth commandment states that thou shalt not commit adultery. When God gave Moses these ten commandments on Mount Sinai he wanted all people to follow these commandments as a set of laws and if you were to break these commandments your friendship with God will

Conveying that the whole of their obedience to Christ, their knowledge of and adherence to all his commands should spring from, and be done in love for him, and their conduct and behavior towards one another be out of love and charity as referring to the unrevised form of this text, “Let all your things be done with charity” (1 Corinthians 16:14). Paul emphasizes that love should bear all things, cover legions of sins, and that all the Corinthians’ church affairs and meetings should be conducted in peace with mutual affection instead of animosity and arrogance. The main message Paul is conveying is love conquers

Finally, a healthy marriage included complementarity of spousal roles (Kostenberger & Jones, 2004). Complementarity is when two parities in a relationship have equal value, but play different roles, typically with one role submissive to a leadership role (Kostenberger & Jones, 200). Despite more modern philosophies about biblical headship and submission, marriage is by design complementary. A major controversial issue of complementarity in a marriage is the idea of headship, or the inherent role of leadership of the male. According to Wilson (2006), submission has a negative connotation in postmodern American culture, however, submission is to be thought of as a, “disposition, demeanor, or character trait, and not as though it is consisted simply of this action or that one” (p. 45). Wilson (2006) insisted that godly or biblical authority, as an aspect of headship, is distinct as it is authority used to encourage and inspire, not abuse or condescend–this being contrary to secular views of headship. Biblical, or godly, headship also includes sacrifice; the man is the head whether he or his wife embrace this true, and also whether or not they function, as this is a God’s ordained position for the husband (Wilson, 2006). The practical application of leadership and submission are roles followed, out of respect for God and love for one another. The husband’s role is to lead as the head of the family, while the wife’s role is to submit to her husband’s leadership (Baker,

The Wife of Bath uses bible verses in “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.” Further, she employs the verses as an outline of her life to find reason in God to justify her actions. Nevertheless, the purpose of the verses differs within each stanza of the poem. The Wife of Bath is a sexually promiscuous, lustful, and manipulative woman. She marries men one after the other as they get older and die. In order to combat and overthrow the speculation and criticism being thrust upon her by societal norms because of her marriages, the wife turns to specific bible passages to find reason in life and support for her actions (Article Myriad.com). When the wife is having sex quite frequently and with different men she is said to be fruitful and multiplying. According to the wife, this is what she is told to do in the bible passage, which she has misinterpreted. Ironically, The Wife of Bath is using a predominantly male dominated book to back up and support her reasons for women being equal to men (Article Myriad.com). Not only has she referred to the benefits of adultery through the bible, she has also attempted to undermine the power of men in the very same way she has attempted to prove that the genders are equal. From this, it can be interpreted that although the wife claims to be providing evidence for women being equal to men, she is actually saying that women are better than men. She misinterprets the readings of the bible and male written passages on purpose in order to suit her needs.

When She exclaims this she shows that men are rulers over their wives, who might as well be slaves. In the Roman culture, Women still have to serve their husbands, except she doesn’t contain the role of a slave. However in the Chinese culture the wife is almost a slave to her husband. These passages show that the duty of marriage is to be a servant to your

In this scholarly article, Jackson discusses the biblical foundation for marriage and divorce. He begins in speaking about the origin of marriage, contending against the ideal that marriage transpired from an evolutionary beginning. He argues for the supernatural, later promoting the biblical view of the origin of marriage. After, he promotes a scriptural view of the traits of marriage: a lifelong, monogamous, and hierarchical arrangement between a man and a woman. He states that any other view relies on “completely abandoning reasonable hermeneutics.” He later talks about the purposes of marriage as the sacred union. These purposes include, but are not limited to, accommodating our social needs, gratification of sexual desire, creating an ideal environment for the rearing of children, and to facilitate God’s divine plan for human redemption.

We see the view of the time that women can be married young, must only be married once and everything must go to their husbands. We also see the Wife’s view that marriage is a tool in which you are allowed to have sex and do as God wanted us to, and have children.She says that it is better to be married more than once than it is to have sex outside of marriage. The Wife also gives us the views that because it never says how many marriages you are allowed to have then, you can have as many as you want without any reasons for it. Another view we see from the wife is her contesting the idea that women and everything they have must go to the man once they are married. She asks why can’t her husband go to her. The Wife’s dominion and ideas of submission from a man in marriage are ideas that we see recur throughout the

him to fall into temptation to seek sex outside the marriage. We learn about divorce in Matthew 5:32 which says “ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives and must not separate from him and a husband should not divorce his wife. Paul taught us that marriage is hard and there will be many hard times but we must learn to get through it with God as our guidance.