David deSilva provides us with some real help here in properly understanding the Bible's instruction in 1 Peter 3. This passage has often been misapplied in cases of domestic abuse, being used to tell victims that they must continue to be subjected to that evil. deSilva's article is worth reading in its entirety (see it… Continue reading 1 Peter 3 Does Not Command Victims to Remain in Abuse — Help from David deSilva
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Divorce, language use, suffering and substitution, in “Is It My Fault” by the Holcombs (Pt 2 of book review)
Here is what troubled me in the Holcomb's book Is It My Fault? Hope and Healing for Those Suffering Domestic Abuse in regards to: divorce their wording and definition of domestic abuse / violence suffering, suffering for sin, and in particular, whose sin Jesus our substitute: what Jesus substitutionally bore on our behalf (I discussed the good points of… Continue reading Divorce, language use, suffering and substitution, in “Is It My Fault” by the Holcombs (Pt 2 of book review)
