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22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head (kephalē) of the wife as Christ is the head (kephalē) of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." NIV
Husbands and wives should love each other and commit themselves to each other just the same. RELATED : Best Wedding Bible Verses That Celebrate Love, Marriage and Family Woman's Day/Getty Images
From 1852 until 1890, the LDS Church openly authorized polygamous marriages between one man and multiple wives, though polygamous families continued cohabitating into the 1940s and 1950s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Today, the church is opposed to such marriages and excommunicates members who participate in them or publicly teach that they are sanctioned by God.
Gospel of Jesus' Wife, recto The Gospel of Jesus' Wife is a forged 4th century papyrus fragment with Coptic text that includes the words, "Jesus said to them, 'my wife...The text received widespread attention when first publicized in 2012 for the implication that some early Christians believed that Jesus was married.
The word translated as woman is gyne, which can mean either woman or wife. Some scholars believe that Jesus is only talking about lusting after another's wife, not the attraction of a man to a woman in general. [3] Nolland notes that sexual desire is not condemned in Matthew or in the contemporary literature, only misdirected desire. [4]
The "Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy" published by Vision Forum before their demise advocates such beliefs as: [6] God reveals Himself as masculine, not feminine. God ordained distinct gender roles for man and woman as part of the created order. A husband and father is the head of his household, a family leader, provider, and protector.
The first episode appears in Genesis 12:10–20.Abram (later called Abraham) moves to ancient Egypt in order to evade a famine.Because his wife, Sarai (later called Sarah), is very beautiful, Abram asks her to say that she is only his sister lest the Egyptians kill him so that they can take her.
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