Comments on: Wives Submit To Your Husbands https://ldsblogs.com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Julie https://ldsblogs.com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-652541 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:30:01 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-652541 In reply to Jennifer.

This.

]]> By: deborah https://ldsblogs.com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-596812 Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:47:51 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-596812 In reply to Jennifer.

amen to this!!

]]> By: Loraine McCall https://ldsblogs.com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-577991 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:30:50 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-577991 Thank you for talking about this!! Submission has become such a taboo in our society that most just want to avoid this topic altogether. There is SO much growth when we decide to submit ourselves to our husbands and to the Lord.

]]> By: Jennifer https://ldsblogs.com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-166 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:55:31 +0000 http://en.elds.org/ldsblogs-com/627/wives_submit_to_your_husbands#comment-166 I find it interesting how people try to interpret Paul’s words in order to make them more appealing to us today. Why is it not okay to just recognize that Paul lived in a vastly different time, and therefore, gave different counsel? I listen to modern-day prophets first and foremost when trying to understand marriage, and that message is clearly one of equal partnership. A “submissive” spouse implies one who excuses themselves from responsibility, duty, and contribution to the marriage relationship – one who allows his/her spouse to dictate his/her will/opinions/preferences/decisions upon the other. This is not equal partnership, nor do I think it helpful to try to re-interpret the sense of the word to justify Paul’s comments. I don’t believe Paul hated women, and his counsel was probably good counsel for the time in which he lived. But the Church is moving ever-steadily from even appearing to promote an unequal marriage relationship. I feel many men and women are reluctant to change, and who can blame them after centuries of having our psyches trained to think and behave in a male-dominant world. Women are to support their husbands as they strive to administer the priesthood in the home – i.e. teach the gospel, perform ordinances, apply direction from Church leaders, etc. Women are to act as equal partners in these efforts, meaning all responsibility, authority, and service in the home are shared. Husbands and wives should make decisions jointly, compromise equally, and make the needs of the other foremost in their considerations. This is what I hear the leaders of the Church saying today. I don’t understand what others are hearing.

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