Here is a very good question one of our readers asked recently. Her question and her insights are very good and we hope will be very helpful to all of you: I have been studying 1Peter, and listening to several sermons on submission. Submission to the government, and in marriage…
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2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 ESV since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, (7) and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels (8) in flaming fire, inflicting…
Read MoreThese paragraphs were taken from a church's web page. Read them, and then I want us to think about how a "church" like this is fertile soil for the wicked, including abusers: Our Core Beliefs: If you were to ask 10 different people at Our Savior's Church their individual beliefs…
Read More1Co 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. I suspect that most of you have had this verse quoted by people who are at work to keep you in an abusive relationship. We must love our abuser, you know. After all - love…
Read MoreHeb 3:18-19 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? (19) So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. You hear this all the time from pastors and professing Christians - God can save anyone. There…
Read MoreJohn 8:39-44 They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, (40) but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not…
Read MoreCan you help me understand these passages in light of how we are to treat the abuser? Jesus seems to teach us two diametrically opposed responses to those who do evil — one of which is found in these verses. But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies,…
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