Q&A Forum - September 2013 (best of Elise)

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If one wants to think of it in natural terms, it would be like a parent who always gets angry compared to a parent that is always loving and understanding. Which parent would you go to in a time of trouble? The one that will lecture you and become angry, or the one that will display love and understanding? That is the difference between faith and fear. Guilt comes when a person lives in fear. The Bible states, “perfect love casts out fear”. A person should always run to God like a child would a parent they trust. A person should not hide and cower from God. That is unhealthy and it will stifle spiritual growth.

A man who has the desire to submit to women has difficulty reconciling his desires with his religious upbringing because he believes that to submit to a woman is to sin against God. This makes no sense when one reasons this out and when one studies the scriptures as they were originally written. But tradition is such a powerful force. The religious man with the desire to submit to women struggles because his inner man wants to submit to women but he must wrestle with that need to be accepted by God and society.