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Duh! Wait.. Double Duh!The whole chapter was intended to be instructional. There are roles and responsibilities in all marriages or at least there are in harmonious relationships where two are joined into one.Helpful or Not Helpful?1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...
Peter should know, right? Bible ethics, baby! You just can't make this sh..
But yes, it begins reminding wives of their place, musses a few men's hair, and actually winds up talking about the crucifixion which we were also just discussing a bit:
So, whether interpreted as "sacrifice" or "suffering," point was the old man either wanted his son to be the victim or his son committed suicide. Then the resurrection takes place which supposedly makes all that bloody horror show seem just fine and dandy. Totally.. worth it! Ethics "instruction" time! How to be a loving, submissive wife, swell husband, son, and super dad! Fun for the whole family!18 For Christ also suffered[b] once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which[c] he went and proclaimed[d] to the spirits in prison, 20 because[e] they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Fantasy. Metaphor. Allegory. Symbolism. But most importantly, Instruction. Because without an instruction manual, fears, and incentives, the masses always scatter. The owners and war makers must appease the workers with bread and circuses of some sort. So "believe" in order to comply, submit, be a fart little smeller!
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