Jesus' General

Love and Marriage

Chuck Currie relays a conversation he had with Rev. Paul Davis of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Portland Oregon:

Paul told me that today Oregon was liberating the institution of marriage from a concept that once simply meant property rights into a concept founded simply on love. Amen.

It's liberal Christians like Paul who give the rest of us a bad name. Jesus was a conservative. His message wasn't about love. It was about authority, and authority is what property rights are all about.

Conservative Christians like myself believe that wives are supposed to submit to their husbands authority. It's our right as men..

How are these biblical roles in marriage applied to the area of decision making? The Scriptures teach that the husband is the head of the wife (Eph. 5:23), and that the wife is to be subject to her husband in all things (Eph. 5:24); so the husband is responsible, before God, for all decisions that affect his wife.

In day-to-day application of biblical roles, l suspect that most husbands allow their wives to make decisions, and that most husbands allow their wives to make some decisions that they think are less than the best.

For instance, a good Christian husband will allow his wife to make decisions with regard to running the household. He will trust her to decide wisely overall; and he will not overrule individual decisions of which brand of laundry soap or peanut butter to buy, just because he thinks that she is not buying the best brand. Instead, he will eat, without complaint the brand of peanut butter that she buys.

Other husbands, some of whom are Christians, in shirking their responsibilities, allow, and sometimes even force, their wives to make decisions for which their wives are not qualified.

Who holds the reigns of authority in these so called "love-based" homosexual marriages? Who is the husband and who is the wife? Who picks the peanut butter and who decides when to buy a car or when to have sex? Do you see how bringing love into marriage only confuses things?

Love undermines the traditional marriage relationship. It's poses a greater threat to the institution of marriage than divorce or feminism combined. That's why we need to fight with all of our might against marriage equality.