Men - Pay Attention

This is so interesting, I want to write down what happened before it gets away from me.

Some guy on Facebook quotes the Bible, prefaced with a preachy catch phrase, "Men - Pay Attention" Evidently the Lord has put this message in his heart to share with the world. His post in full:

"Men - Pay Attention Ephesians 5:25-26 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, (26)cleansing her by the washing with water through the word."

So, I commented back, asking the man posting this, "How does this work out, in this day and age, when a woman is allowed to bathe herself in the word?"

He then deleted that post (my comment along with it) and reposted, this time leaving off the second verse. So, I had to comment:

"Gee, you aren't censoring the Bible are you? :)" I added the smiley face on the end so he wouldn't get too pissed.

So, this guy deletes that new post as well, (also deleting my comment that went with it).

And then he reposted again, this time just a link to the verse on another page where I could not leave a comment.

You see, that's the kind of community interaction that Jesus wishes for "His" folk. For people to preach to the masses, and to be heard without comment or question.

This also speaks to the fallacy of the inerrancy of the Bible. According to Jesus, all people are equal in his eyes, and yet we find the authors of scripture often writing condescendingly about and towards women.

And to provide more understanding about the verses quoted above, here are three more verses that immediately precede the afore mentioned:

"Ephesians 5: 22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."

Supposedly, these are the words that God has sent us via the Bible. Come one guys. God is much smarter than that. God wouldn't be caught dead saying such things.