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It is things like this that make be embarassed to callmyself a Christian:
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Should wives love their husbands?
Ephesians 5:25-33 (New International Version) 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[c] 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. I don't see anything here about wives loving their husbands. ;)
I love (sic) strict literalism.
Comment from: Mike [Visitor] 02/02/06 @ 13:03
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It's a good thing we have people like Honzo who will recognize a difference of interpretation. I wouldn't have thought to check if there was another interpretation.
Also noted on the t-shirt is the presence of "..." x 3. Reminds me of the part in the Bible where "Jesus... giant.. as large as... mountain... glowing... green.. eyes... like a fire... Chill... with... monkeys... teach how to... make furniture"(why even bother citing x:abc - def) The t-shirt looks like a Biblical madlib. :P
I think the problem with the shirt is its selective quoting. Just look at all the ellipses.
The part of the passage that most people forget (but you included, Honzo), is "In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies." In fact, most of the passage is a command for husbands to be servants of their wives. But that's not what is emphasized in our church. We get the "wives submit to your husbands" line and forget the rest.
I see Mike already covered the ellipses before I finished my comment. And he was much more clever about it.
Comment from: Roland [Visitor] 02/02/06 @ 18:25
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I instantly thought of Dave when I saw the Colbert Report.
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