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No one is claiming anyone to be "betteer" than anyone else. The fact remains that historcally, it has been the Arabs who have began hostilities with Israel, and they are the ones who perpetuate it. That is historical, documented fact. When the Arabs choose recognize the right of Israel to exist, and choose to live in genuine peace with Israel, there would be peace inside of 24 hours. Arabs are part of the "we". If they didn't consider themselves "better", why would they not recognize Israel's rights?

I recently read Marlon Brando's opinion of the Jews and found it interesting. source: http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Marlon_Brando.html Personally, I believe, if given the opportunity, every human alive is capable of contributing something wonderful to the world. Yes, we all CAN get along. When we stop pointing blame and thinking ourselves better than the "others".

Just go. Play with someone else's head. I'm not playing anymore.

From here: http://bible.cc/deuteronomy/32-35.htm Deuteronomy 32:35 'Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their calamity is near, And the impending things are hastening upon them.' Psalm 103:9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. Matthew 19:19 HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER; and YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Mark 12:31 "The second is this, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Luke 10:27 And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Romans 12:19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. Romans 13:9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Hebrews 10:30 For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY." And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE." James 2:8 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well. There is a difference between Levitical law and the Universal Laws of God. The example of the different food laws is Biblical proof of this. Paul's opinions on circumcision is Biblical proof of this. Notice James calls this Law the "Royal Law"? Look at the context in which James uses that Law: Favoritism Forbidden 1)My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism. 2)Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. 3)If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to the poor man, "You stand there" or "Sit on the floor by my feet," 4)have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 5)Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 6)But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 7)Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong? 8)If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself", you are doing right. 9)But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10)For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11)For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. 12)Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13)because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment! Two men build a company together. Both came into this union with different credentials. One man is taller than the other, better looking and carries himself with an eminence that keeps the clients captivated, ensuring their return for more product. Should this "better man" consider himself of greater value to the company, even though they went into it 50/50? They merged a union, two talents into one company. Two becoming one. Both with different roles in their union. Is one "over" the other? Marriage is a union. Two become one. Both are of equal importance in this union. Both have different roles in this union. Both should value the other the way they value themself and not discriminate because of gender. If we are not to show favortism, as James states and "wives, obey your husbands" was not written in stone, why do some people still feel that the man should rightfully be the final judgment in the home? The home, the marriage, is a 50/50 union into ONE WHOLE.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" is treating each other as equals. Jesus said these are the most important Laws and He would know. If you want to compare Jesus' relationship with His church to marriage between a man and a woman, do it like this: Jesus said the reason the Father loves Him is because He lays down His life, no one takes it from Him, He lays it down willingly. Wives do not have to be told to submit to their husband's rulership when the marriage is in perfect unity because both the man and the woman will love each other enough to lay down their lives for each other willingly, treating each other as they want to be treated. Everything they do will be to please the other, this is perfect unity. It does not need additional rules. Rules that are easily broken or abused. Rules that give no room for God to work in their heart, showing them the joy of giving freely. Perfect love is perfect unity. Oneness. Not, one and a lesser. You bind people with imperfect rules and it all falls apart. (Bib, that should answer your question, too.) Love your neighbor as yourself is not the same as treating each other as equals. For instance, I have been a supervisor, and had people under me. They were not equals on the job, but it was still possible to love them as myself. In addition, it is not one of the 10 commandments. Also, once again you failed to respond to any of the things OC said, and you did not address anything I said directly. You brought an entirely different thing into the argument, and it doesn't prove that the teachings of Paul are invalid today. When a woman marries a man, she is not marrying him for his profit or gain, she is marrying him because she loves him and he loves her. If she were not marrying him but was hired at his place of employment and was working "under" him, she would have to obey the rules he lays out for this place of employment they both work at. Husbands and wives join together and become ONE. Bosses and employees join together and become bosses and employees. There is a difference. Nevertheless, God still says in his Word that the wife is to be in submission to her husband. There is no getting around that, nor the fact that not one of the 10 commandments says we are to treat each other as equals, and based on your standards, that means it is not a universal law. It is nothing but your opinion, and in this case, your opinion is contrary to scripture. By the way, children are not equal to their parents in authority either, nor are parents to treat them as equal in authority, but they still love them. Before children reach the age of accountability, they're guiltless when they obey their parents and their obedience causes them to sin. When they are no longer a child, the situation changes, they're to "put away childish things" and obey God, above all. Respect and honor is different than obedience. As far as laws go, Jesus made it completely clear which ones He felt were the most important and He said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul and love your neighbor as yourself." If that doesn't say for us to treat each others as equals, IF NOT BETTER, then what does it mean to you? Women naturally fall into a pattern of wanting to please their husband trusting his judgment above their own, when he has won her respect and love. It's a natural born instinct to submit to a man's dominance. The man naturally has power over the woman. It's harder for her to break this instinct and obey God because she wants to please her man, above all. A woman rests in this submission and often uses it as an excuse if both slip into sin. She "can't say no to him". To tell a woman she has to obey her husband, as a child has to obey his parents, with or without his love and respect, is telling her she may use this excuse. That's a trap satan uses. The laws of our great nation under God are fair and just. As God is. If she's lead to believe she "was only obeying her husband" and thoughtlessly commits a crime with him, it won't hold up in court. It didn't hold up in God's "court" for Sapphira. Sapphira was accountable for her actions and was not praised for her obedience to her husband. She obeyed her husband, as told to by Peter and Paul in the Bible. "The husband is under God and the wife is under the husband" leaves no room for if's and's or but's. A rule is a rule, black or white. That's why it was not written in stone. That's why it's a choice a woman makes and usually does make, willingly, for her husband. Foundational rules are rules in their purity. To love God first and then each other, placing ourselves last is the perfect example of humility and when we obey these foundations every other rule in life falls into place naturally. These foundations leave no room for selfishness, greed, condescension, narcissism and self-exaltation. The world might be a better place if these rules were in everybody's heart and followed strictly, don't you think?

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"Love your neighbor as yourself" is treating each other as equals. Jesus said these are the most important Laws and He would know. If you want to compare Jesus' relationship with His church to marriage between a man and a woman, do it like this: Jesus said the reason the Father loves Him is because He lays down His life, no one takes it from Him, He lays it down willingly. Wives do not have to be told to submit to their husband's rulership when the marriage is in perfect unity because both the man and the woman will love each other enough to lay down their lives for each other willingly, treating each other as they want to be treated. Everything they do will be to please the other, this is perfect unity. It does not need additional rules. Rules that are easily broken or abused. Rules that give no room for God to work in their heart, showing them the joy of giving freely. Perfect love is perfect unity. Oneness. Not, one and a lesser. You bind people with imperfect rules and it all falls apart. (Bib, that should answer your question, too.) Love your neighbor as yourself is not the same as treating each other as equals. For instance, I have been a supervisor, and had people under me. They were not equals on the job, but it was still possible to love them as myself. In addition, it is not one of the 10 commandments. Also, once again you failed to respond to any of the things OC said, and you did not address anything I said directly. You brought an entirely differen't thing into the argument, and it doesn't prove that the teachings of Paul are invalid today. When a woman marries a man, she is not marrying him for his profit or gain, she is marrying him because she loves him and he loves her. If she were not marrying him but was hired at his place of employment and was working "under" him, she would have to obey the rules he lays out for this place of employment they both work at. Husbands and wives join together and become ONE. Bosses and employees join together and become bosses and employees. There is a difference.

Butero, I showed you where Noah was told by God that he could eat every animal as opposed to Moses strict dietary laws. A perfect example of rules changing around a culture. The Law God gave Noah about killing was in it's pure form. If it were obeyed there would have been no need for wars and battles and God's people would not have had to shed the blood of the men who were shedding blood. Right? Even David knew the difference between killing wicked murderers and killing for selfish gain(as he did and was punished for). Jesus said all the laws hang on two Laws: 1)Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul. 2)Love your neighbor as yourself. When those Laws are firmly in place, and not broken or altered, the other laws will be followed effortlessly. The Ten Commandments clarified Laws that made sense to the Laws Jesus mentioned. "Love your neighbor as yourself" is treating each other as equals. Jesus said these are the most important Laws and He would know. If you want to compare Jesus' relationship with His church to marriage between a man and a woman, do it like this: Jesus said the reason the Father loves Him is because He lays down His life, no one takes it from Him, He lays it down willingly. Wives do not have to be told to submit to their husband's rulership when the marriage is in perfect unity because both the man and the woman will love each other enough to lay down their lives for each other willingly, treating each other as they want to be treated. Everything they do will be to please the other, this is perfect unity. It does not need additional rules. Rules that are easily broken or abused. Rules that give no room for God to work in their heart, showing them the joy of giving freely. Perfect love is perfect unity. Oneness. Not, one and a lesser. You bind people with imperfect rules and it all falls apart. (Bib, that should answer your question, too.)

God's Laws never contradicted each other or God's Word would be considered corrupted. Man is the one who needed extra laws for when the simple Universal Laws of God were broken. The reason God never wrote "wives, obey your husbands" in the Ten Commandments is because it goes against the rules to treat each other as equals. There is another reason and that is because if this supposed "universal law" were to be broken due to the wife's attempt to obey God's Laws, His Word would have been contradicted. As it is, God never contradicts Himself and to say He does is blasphemy. Those extra rules in the NT were to establish order in the chaotic era those people lived in, the only way they knew how. That was honoring God at that time. To say those rules apply to all time is to say it is a Universal Law of God and that is a lie. Those rules fit that era only. God also instituted the death penalty and sent the children of Israel into battle, even though he commanded them not to kill, one of what you refer to as universal laws. There was no contradiction, because he never intended the commandment to have anything to do with the military or government. By the way, which of the 10 commandments tells us to treat each other as equals? I don't remember any that states, "Thou shalt treat each other as equals." If God wanted us to do that, it seems like he would have placed that commandment with the other 10, what you call, universal laws. Since it is not there, it is only opinion, and I think I will reject it. That seems to be your approach. And no, those rules given by Paul do not only apply to that era. They apply today as well, and I will continue to hold to them. I reject your heretical teachings to the contrary. When Noah took his family off of the ark, God gave him some different rules about killing another human and also about what animals to eat: Genesis 9:3-11 3) Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 4) "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5) And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. 6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man. 7) As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." 8) Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9) "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10) and with every living creature that was with you the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you - every living creature on earth. 11) I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." Different era, different rules. Certainly from the laws Moses laid out.

God's Laws never contradicted each other or God's Word would be considered corrupted. Man is the one who needed extra laws for when the simple Universal Laws of God were broken. The reason God never wrote "wives, obey your husbands" in the Ten Commandments is because it goes against the rules to treat each other as equals. There is another reason and that is because if this supposed "universal law" were to be broken due to the wife's attempt to obey God's Laws, His Word would have been contradicted. As it is, God never contradicts Himself and to say He does is blasphemy. Those extra rules in the NT were to establish order in the chaotic era those people lived in, the only way they knew how. That was honoring God at that time. To say those rules apply to all time is to say it is a Universal Law of God and that is a lie. Those rules fit that era only.

Yes, I do obey the Sabbath Law. I don't labor on Saturday. I do this out of love for God. If every rule given in the Bible is a Universal Law given by God Himself, how many of these do you yourself break? Look throughout the entire Bible and you will find nearly every man or woman of God in rebellion against someone or some decree made by man, to follow the ways of God. Peter stated, as plainly as he gave the obedience rule, that we are to obey the government rules and laws because the government was put there by God to ensure justice. God's Universal Laws never contradict each other. God has planted HIS seeds of righteousness in my heart and I obey Him. And, how do my "actions say otherwise" when what I want is Truth so that I have Truth to teach my children? How do you think nations have fallen? By following blindly rules that made no sense and went against God's Laws.

Luke 21:29-31 29)He told them this parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees. 30)When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. 31)Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Song of Solomon 8:5 5)Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. Jesus said that the end would only come after His Gospel has been preached throughout all nations. From here:(note, that link is only part of a research inquiry) Has the Internet and other resources of media sped up this process of global awareness and unity like the "birth before the labor" quoted by Isaiah "for the sake of the elect" Jesus spoke of? It seems that prophetic unity has already been established and widely accepted by most. Every nation has compared notes and religions and the places that have yet to hear have been blindfolded purposely, as a doctor would try to stop the birthing process of a mother in labor. Also, some people seem to believe that God would not destroy a nation with righteous people in it. I beg to differ. Particulary because the Truth has been polluted by the selfish heart of man and most people only think they're obeying God's Laws. Most people forget the most important Law that Jesus stressed above all "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul." and war is proof we've disregarded "love your neighbor as yourself".

I hope the Russian's practice of "flexing their muscles" is just "reviving traditions" as they claim. Even that seems odd. They seem to be doing it more and more lately.

Consider Queen Esther, she went through years adorning herself before meeting the king and her beauty played a role in saving thousands of Jews. Had she gone into the king in less than perfection, he'd have probably thought she was insulting his royalty. Different cultures require different rules. One man's do list is another man's don't.

It does not matter what the church is counseling the husband to do, as long as they tell the husband that he is the one to "bath his wife in God's Word"(as opposed to her reading for herself), because that "command" went along with the submission command - if you obey one you have to obey them all - so says Paul, the husband can tell her anything he wants to and she has to listen to him. That's not right. It makes no sense according to the Law "love thy neighbor as thyself" or the fact that God created men and women on an equal status. Yes, they both have different jobs and different strengths in the home, but they're both souls in a human body. The soul in the female form naturally has weaker muscles and is able to bear children but her brain is the same in intelligence as a man. Hormonal factors are minute and do not effect decision making in a normally functioning man or woman so why is it the soul born in a woman's body is second best? She's not. Men and women are equal in the eyes of God and that's why "wives, obey your husbands" was never a Ten Commandment written in stone.