**Note
What I write in this part might be controversial to many people these days, even to people in the Church, but please bear with me.
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**Side note:
I believe the Bible is 100% correct and inspired by God. The Bible is very reliable. For example, the earliest New Testament copy we have was written around 130 AD, although it was originally written around 60 AD, giving it a time span of 100 years. There are about 14,000 copies of it. (The original 'first written new testaments' did not survive) Looking at all of those 14,000 copies, they are 99.5% accurate to themselves. Usually, there are only some words, which are or aren't there, although sometimes sentences are added.
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Seems very accurate, don't you think? The next reliable old books are the ones by Homer, writer of "the Iliad" and "The Odyssey". They were written around 850 BC, we don't know when the earliest copies were written, and therefore don't know the time span it was written. But, there are 653 copies, and those copies are 95% accurate to each other. Scholars write that Homer's books are extremely reliable. How much more reliable is the Bible?
Okay, you might believe me now when I say the Bible is reliable, but you might not believe me when I say it was inspired by God. You might even say the Bible is nonsense.
Unfortunately, I cannot stop you form believing that, and hopefully God can change your heart, but...
...If we are on the same page there, then in the Bible Paul writes in Ephesians 5:22, 28-31. "Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the church; and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wife as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it . . . So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church . . . For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shal1 be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh".
But wait, you might ask: What does this have to do with dating Christian women? Paul is writing here about marriage.
True, Paul is writing about marriage here, BUT when the dating period is going on, women naturally want someone to lead them. Women hate being the ones making the decisions and making the calls on things.
Don't believe me? Setup a night with a women, and make her make all the decisions, because it will make here happy that she has control, right?
Wrong, she will run from you, way faster than you can stop her!
Women want you to take the lead, and this includes during the dating process.
So, how do you lead a girl, the right way?
Paul sets it up in Ephesians pretty clearly...
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If the passage looks very controversial, especially in today standards, it is! This was not written to follow the ways of man, but instead the ways of God! God's ways are far better than our own, even if they do not look it at the time. He has a purpose and plan to every thing he does.
Think our way is better, or not that bad?
Look around at all the relationships around you. You will probably find countless divorces, and failed relationships. This is people trying to do it their own way, without the help of God running their life!
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Sorry, no time right now, there will be more to come later!
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