Posted on 09/30/2015 2:40:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most “soul mates” are nothing more than a person willing to do whatever it takes to get and keep who they want.
This is the reason why so many “soul mates” are ugly women.
Men never will totally understand women, or vice versa.
Bravo to Eric Metaxas!
Lewis comes pretty close to approximating a hellish POV, however. I believe Lewis followed this up by saying that wishful thinking exists in hell as well as on earth. Lewis’s devils (and perhaps real devils) sometimes fantasize things to be even worse than they are, which is actually pretty realistic. If you’re wanting to damn everything to hell, you’ll be biased to that interpretation of an ambiguous situation.
From the bottom of my heart, I believe it is because by-and-large, with the possible exception of the South, women, whether Christian or non-Christian, are not raised to honor and subject themselves to their husbands as unto the Lord, obeying them as their head.
“Feminism” (applied opposite of its actual meaning in an Orwellian way like “liberal”) and the Women’s movement have not only created a bloody infanticide of 70+ million unborn but is the main cause of family, and, therefore, societal, breakdown.
Women have quite a price to pay to be married. If they are brought up to compete with men (almost all are), or not to cherish and embrace their true feminine nature, or not trained for such, or not a believer who is teachable to change in God’s hands, they are likely to fail. The beautiful, honorable, admirable, and desirable apparel of a married woman is thus: “a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; even as Sara obeyed Abraham calling him lord...” (1 Pet 3:4-6).
Fifty-one years here & still standing at 69. - When you get old, you NEED each other. It isn’t glamourous; but it’s reality. - Forgive each other EVERY day; then stand up and deliver. - Trust in the Lord & don’t be a smart aleck. - Oh, and any “green grass” you might think is on the far side of that hill reeks & stinks because it’s really just a great big pile of green diarrhea that only resembles a good looking woman or man in your deluded mind. - Twinkie’s just telling you like it is.
Please find some actual numbers on this for us. I rather doubt that, but would of course yield (gladly) to evidence.
Amen.
LOL!
I agree with Gerald O’Hara: if like doesn’t marry like, disaster follows. And middle-class and lower-class people shouldn’t take rich, Hollywood-types as their role models. Half the problems of America comes from imitating the multiple marriages and adulteries of Hollywood vulgarians.
There ain't NOTHIN' in that 'green grass' that's worth losing what I have at home. Real intimacy with a spouse takes years to develop.
**Marriage can be wonderfully satisfying, but that’s the result of God’s grace, hard work, and self-sacrificial love. And that is the truth.**
So true.
Sowing seeds
Count me in!
Education, income...it all takes a back seat to what really matters. Does your intended walk with Christ? That path will draw you closer together no matter what.
ALL Christians need to see the movie, the WAR ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True. Looking for unconditional love? Get a Labrador Retriever.
Bingo! It took me more than one time to figure it out. For us God is first, she is second for me, children are third, and then the rest.
“The whole soulmate idea is just snother symptom of our narcissistic culture.”
ABSOLUTELY. That term makes me SICK. Even if people feel that way, they should KEEP IT TO THEMSELVES. There’s NO REASON for a person to brag about their (supposed) compatibility with their wife (or vice versa, for that matter).
Bottom line: Just show it, that simple.
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