Yes. One of the reasons Peter's advice to wives may have been longer is because in the culture of the day if a husband decided to become a Christian, he brought his wife along with him. If a wife decided to become Christian, and the husband did not, she was on her own.
The first sentence is: Likewise, you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that, if there are any who refuse to believe the word, they may be won for Christ without a word because they have seen your pure and reverent behavior.
How little it would take to convince you? Really? There is no evidence you will even consider.
You're making some pretty big assumptions with nothing to back them up, aren't you? After spending most of my life telling myself that there has to be an omnipotent, loving God, and the only reason I couldn't make that connection was because I wasn't praying hard enough, or working hard enough to fulfill his plans for me, I finally realized I have no obligation. If a god really cares enough about me to have his son die for me, and he truly wants me to believe in him, he would at least give me some small reason to believe he exists.
And as I believe Emily has pointed out, how does sacrificing animals, humans, or one's own son (still) translate as "Love!" or "moral" today? It's all just gross.
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice..." (Hosea 6:6) and the sentiment occurs in other verses as well.
Not sure how you can know someone when you have no reason to believe they exist. How does that work?
Nah. . . I don't think you really do.
The greatest Commandment is to love God above all else. Struggling with this over the years my question was how can I love someone I don't even know? The Christian answer was to know Jesus is to know God. I think that may work for many, but I still struggled. Then I came across a Jewish philosophy. Knowing and loving God's Law teaches one to know and love God. This still took a lot of time (years), but I kept at it. In the end it was what worked best for me. Still, I had no trouble believing in God, so I that was not a step I had to overcome. Perhaps belief will come with knowing the Law? But first and primary, Do you want to believe in God?
Agreed! God can work with who we are. We do not need to become someone we are not.
What assumptions did I make? I could walk down the list for reasons for believing God exists and you would deny everyone of them. There is no evidence you will even consider.
Wow. The part about spending most of my life in church and constantly in search of the great revelation that I was sure would eventually come for me went right over your head, didn't it? During that time I would proclaim my faith every chance I got, while never really seeing any real reason to do so.
You assume no evidence would convince me. However that is exactly what I have found. No evidence.
No, I got that. You were looking for a great revelation. For yourself? What would you have done with it that you haven't been able to accomplish without said revelation? (By the way, looking for a Great Revelation isn't the same as seeking to know God.)
And that's not a claim. No it's not!
I don't know about you, but I would call discovering a reason to believe that god actually exists, and that all the things I had been taught about him were true, an amazing revelation. Again, I don't know how anyone could know a god when there isn't any reason to believe they actually exist. You gotta explain how that works.
