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The question goes like this: can men stay at home? More specifically, is it wrong biblically for men to be "stay at home dads"?
No. I think a lot of the pressure that we feel as Christians is much more cultural than biblical.
I don't think I can do justice to the podcast with a short blurb, but here is the beginning, just to let you know where they come down.
The question goes like this: can men stay at home? More specifically, is it wrong biblically for men to be "stay at home dads"?
No. I think a lot of the pressure that we feel as Christians is much more cultural than biblical.
[quoting the podcast]No. I think a lot of the pressure that we feel as Christians is much more cultural than biblical.
I don't think I can do justice to the podcast with a short blurb, but here is the beginning, just to let you know where they come down.
The question goes like this: can men stay at home? More specifically, is it wrong biblically for men to be "stay at home dads"?
No. I think a lot of the pressure that we feel as Christians is much more cultural than biblical.
I didn't realize that Genesis 3:17-19 was cultural.
I don't think I can do justice to the podcast with a short blurb, but here is the beginning, just to let you know where they come down.
The question goes like this: can men stay at home? More specifically, is it wrong biblically for men to be "stay at home dads"?
No. I think a lot of the pressure that we feel as Christians is much more cultural than biblical.
I didn't realize that Genesis 3:17-19 was cultural.
If you are taking your argument based on this passage, every man should come home and be a farmer. The point is that the husband is supposed to be the head of the house and the provider. Sometimes that is just not possible. Are we going to condemn a woman because her husband may be so ill he can't provide and the woman has to be the one to work? I doubt it.
Should men behave like women and women behave like man, no!
Several posts so far have read "stay-at-home dad" to mean a dad that stays home with his wife. That is not how the term is normally used in our culture. It means a man who plays the same role as a stay-at-home mom while she works a normal day job.
I think those who have pointed out that there are extraordinary cases (e.g. medical reasons), but that we should not argue from the extraordinary to the ordinary, have it right.
In regard to men having to work as a result of the fall,
I;d have my wife only work for another woman.
In regard to men having to work as a result of the fall,
Who said work is a result of the fall???
I would imagine that situations were in place for disability in the OT, but the norm was that the man had to work and provide. It was the result of the curse.
It is also obvious that the curse of the woman is that she will WANT to be the leader and rule, but she is to submit and have the husband rule and provide.
So in my opinion, the modern stay-at-home dad is typically the woman succumbing to the curse and the man wussing out.
I;d have my wife only work for another woman.
That seems like you'd just be encouraging the cycle of women working outside the home.
but the norm was that the man had to work and provide. It was the result of the curse.
What's ironic about that is that most women, when given the choice, would rather work under a man than under another woman.I;d have my wife only work for another woman.
When I hear 'stay-at-home dad,' I hear a lifestyle choice, rather than a concession to necessity that everyone involved hopes is temporary.
In that sense, no, it's not o.k. to be a stay-at-home dad.
Well sometimes it is, and then it is the churches job to correct such a man, sometimes it is because the wife is a very strong personality and it seems the roles have been reveresed in the home, that too needs to correction, yet pastorally I have come across situations where necessity has dictated who stays and home and who works.