Unholy Charade - Jeff Crippen

Unmasking the Domestic Abuser in the Church

My Answer to an Excellent Question

I decided to make a stand-alone post out of an answer that I gave to this excellent question one commenter submitted: "Is there a difference between 'submit' and 'obey'? If I must obey my husband at all times, then I make him my God, which he is not." Excellent question.…

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Like Their Father, RASNs are Destroyers

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. (Mat 12:14) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.(Joh 10:10) The devil is a destroyer. He doesn't create things, he destroys them. He…

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The Puppy-eyed Victimhood of the RASN

And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. (Mal 2:13) Revilers, abusers, sociopaths and narcissists (RASNs) never accept blame. It is always someone else's fault. If…

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The Wrath of the Lamb Awaits the RASN

Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the…

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Some Red Flags that Give the RASN Away

3 John 1:9 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. RASNs are not rare. I group these four toxic types together in this RASN acronym (Revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) because, for instance, narcissists revile (abusive speech), they…

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The Religious RASN is Heaping Coals upon his Head

Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago…

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A Diversion Tactic of the “Religious” RASN

Listen to this insightful quote from a pastor of days gone by (in the 1800's) regarding how the wicked divert attention from the own evils: Speculation about theological doctrine is often found in an unnatural union with habitual neglect of moral duty. And among the endless winding paths of the…

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Freedom is the key to Understanding The Bible’s Instruction on Marriage

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Mat 11:29-30) The Apostles' instruction on marriage - husbands and wives and how they are…

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Your Thoughts on this Question

Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace. (1Co 7:15) The question I would invite your comments on is not exactly parallel to the verse quoted above, but there is…

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A Day of Reckoning is Coming

Enter the rock and hide in the dust From the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty. The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the LORD…

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