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Originally Posted by Basilissa
Friends, I am SO excited to share some GREAT news: I am engaged and soon to be married! (I dunno how soon, but I'm sure it will be SOON).
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Naturally, there is joy in the heart of any Christian for a woman who is about to set aside the ways of the world, ambition, career, learning, personal advancement, etc, etc, for her primary purpose in bearing and raising children in the Christian tradition under the strict guidance of her husband, and yet...
... and yet this is tempered by the worrying phenomenon of some women who will do anything to obtain “a husband” almost regardless of his suitability:
Ec:7:25: I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ec:7:26: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ec:7:27: Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ec:7:28: Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ec:7:29: Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
The Good Lord is short on direct advice to women, (See John 2:3 – 4, for an exception) rather relying on
1Co:14:35: And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1Co:14:40: Let all things be done decently and in order.
I have always seen this as implying (1) the eternal truth
“You can tell a Christian woman, but you can’t tell her much.” and (ii) the Wisdom of God Who is fully aware that if He were to start directing advice to women, He would, even in His Infiniteness, soon run out of time to do the important things in life like inspiring Baptist Prophets.
But I am wandering from my point. My point is that to know whether a man is suitable, that man must be presented before the Council of Elders at Landover, who will press the suitor as to his Christianity.
Having read the a few details
(provided by yourself, and hence probably biased) I caught myself wondering if it were at all possible or advisable for him to travel to the US.
If he can, he should.
PS Please do not suggest “Skype” or “WhatApp” as one invisible power speaking from the heavens is enough.