Lessthancharmed
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Anyone can ultimately be influenced by the crowd they hang around with, which is why the proverb says, "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." The fact is your friends can really destroy you spiritually. The Christian call to be out on the highways and byways is, in the context of the parable you're quoting from, in order to "compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." Are you suggesting going to fetish parties and trying to proselytize, then? It's something I hadn't considered doing myself.
The reason many claim the wife is to be obedient to her husband is because this is so well borne out in scripture, without a single word to the contrary. It's also true that husbands are commanded to love their wives and not be bitter against them, as well to be "giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel." Female leaders in churches are a very recent phenomenon and not all churches have yet embraced it (notably the Catholics). There were certainly no female church leaders in the NT at all, nor do they appear in the post-biblical writings of the apostolic church fathers. In fact, the NT says "but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man" and "let the women keep silence in the churches." There are few examples of any female leaders or rulers existing anywhere in the bible. One of the only instances that may be adduced is that of Jezebel, who was prophesied against for her wickedness and later fell out of a window and was eaten by dogs in fulfillment of the prophecy.
As far as saying that some of what was written was society and the time, wow, that must put you in the uncomfortable position of saying that you sort of believe there's a God and you sort of believe he has a message for us, but you're not really sure what it is and how much of it is just the figment of men's imagination. Doesn't sound like much of a "creed" to me. It seems much more likely that some of what you are writing is society and the time, because your position has only recently (in the scope of history) gained any popularity, whereas for thousands of years the natural role of women being submissive to men was well understood and accepted the world over. If one believes the bible to be the word of God, as I do, then it is an unlikely assumption that God lately changed his mind due to the lobbying of some turn-of-the-century suffragettes or their progressive daughters or their feminist granddaughters or their post-modernist great granddaughters, just as it is equally unsound to assume that God was shy about telling the bulk of humankind what he thought initially because he didn't want to offend any patriarchal religious leaders of the day.
As far as Greek and Hebrew go, I have been reading the bible in its original languages for more than ten years and have found many wonderful insights by interpreting words differently, but nothing that changes any biblical doctrine. The Greek word for edification is oikodome which has the same meaning as the English word edification, literally, "building up" (just as an edifice is a building, and just as an oikodome in Greek is also sometimes a building).
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