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Concluding that the author of 1 Timothy was addressing a specific situation that was a serious threat to the infant, fragile church, in an article entitled "1 Timothy 2:11–15: Anti-Gnostic Measures against Women" [38] the author writes that the "tragedy is that these verses were extensively used in later tradition to justify contemporary ...
Marjorie Proctor-Smith in Violence against women and children: a Christian Theological Sourcebook states that domestic physical, psychological or sexual violence is a sin. It victimizes family members dependent on a man and violates trust needed for healthy, equitable and cooperative relationships.
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” The Good News: Your faith in God will guide you through life's challenges.
Psalm 119:28 “My spirit sags because of grief. Now raise me up according to your promise!” The Good News: This verse is conveying the feeling of being emotionally exhausted and sad.When we ...
IVPress Women's Bible Commentary, (Downers Grove, 2002) No Place for Abuse: Biblical and Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence (with Nancy Nason-Clark; InterVarsity Press, 2001, 2010) Healing the Hurting: Giving Hope and Help to Abused Women (with James R. Beck; Baker Books, 1998) Women, Abuse, and the Bible: How Scripture Can Be ...
The Bible does not say whether she had encountered Jesus in person prior to this. Neither does the Bible disclose the nature of her sin. Women of the time had few options to support themselves financially; thus, her sin may have been prostitution. Had she been an adulteress, she would have been stoned.
According to the Gospel, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on Sabbath, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years.She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.