Jude – Contend for the Faith – Online Bible Study

 

You can watch the online version of this study on my channel, Based Christian History at 8pm AEST

In this study you will find the passage, some analysis of the passage, and 10 study questions with cross references for a Bible study setting.

Jude

New King James Version

Greeting to the Called

¹ Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,

To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

² Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith

³ Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. ⁴ For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

⁸ Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

¹² These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

¹⁶ These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. ¹⁷ But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁸ how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. ¹⁹ These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Maintain Your Life with God

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

²² And on some have compassion, making a distinction; ²³ but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Glory to God

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
²⁵ To God our Savior,Who alone is wise,
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,
Both now and forever.
Amen.

Introduction and Evaluation of Jude

If we were to summarize Jude we could say his big idea would be:

Because false teachers have infiltrated the church and perverted God’s grace, Christians must contend for the apostolic faith, persevere in holiness, and lovingly rescue those being led astray, trusting the Lord God who is able to keep them from falling.

That captures the movement of the whole letter particularly well. It is a call to action to defend the truth for the sake of God’s people.

Jude himself identifies his purpose in 1:3. He notes that he had intended to write about their “common salvation,” but found it necessary to exhort them “to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” He has to do this because certain people have secretly entered the church and were turning God's grace into sensuality and denying Christ's lordship.

Aim and structure

Jude has an unusually clear overall structure:

1. Greeting and identity — vv. 1–2
2. The reason for the letter: contend for the faith — vv. 3–4
3. The warning: examples and characteristics of apostasy — vv. 5–16
4. The response: remember, build, pray, keep, rescue — vv. 17–23
5. The confidence: God is able to keep his people — vv. 24–25

The transition at verse 17 is particularly important. Jude moves from describing the false teachers to addressing his readers directly: “But you, beloved…” That contrast occurs again in verses 20 and 21. The letter therefore isn't merely a denunciation of heresy; it is pastoral instruction about how faithful Christians are to respond when error threatens the church.

As I already noted; Jude wants believers to contend for the faith for the sake of the body of Christ.

Interpretation

Jude's argument is theological as well as moral. The false teachers do not merely have some incorrect opinions. Their distorted understanding of grace produces distorted behaviour. They turn grace into an excuse for sensuality and simultaneously deny Christ's authority.

That is why Jude repeatedly connects belief and behaviour. Cain, Balaam and Korah in verse 11 are not random examples: each represents rebellion against God's revealed order. The images Jude uses in verses 12–13, imagery like waterless clouds, fruitless trees, raging waves and wandering stars, communicate spiritual barrenness and instability.

The second half of this small letter gives the positive alternative. Believers are to build themselves up in the faith, pray in the Holy Spirit, keep themselves in God's love and look forward to Christ's mercy. They are also to show differentiated pastoral care toward those affected by error.

There is a beautiful tension between human perseverance and divine preservation. Verse 21 says, “keep yourselves,” while verse 24 declares that God is able to “keep you from stumbling.” God's preserving work does not make Christian perseverance unnecessary; rather, persevering in the faith is one of the ways God's preserving grace is evidenced. The believer is responsible to keep their faith in God, while relying on God to sustain them.  Jude would laugh at those who complain too much about tone. His letter is rhetorically forceful. His language becomes increasingly vivid as he describes the false teachers. This is appropriate because the tone of the letter is one of urgent pastoral warning, not detached academic analysis. Jude cares enough about people’s souls to use strong language to warn them about dangerous teachers.

Jude Bible study Questions

Bible Study: Jude — Contending for the Faith

1. Who are the people Jude is writing to, and what does he say God has already done for them? Vv. 1-2

Cross-reference: 1 Peter 1:3–5

2. Why did Jude feel compelled to change what he originally intended to write about? Vv. 3–4.

Cross-reference: Galatians 1:6–9

3. What exactly was wrong with the false teachers? Vv. 4, 8–13 and 16.

Cross-reference: Titus 1:16

4. Why does Jude spend so much time reminding his readers about examples from the past? Vv. 5–11.

Cross-reference: 1 Corinthians 10:1–12

5. What do Jude's vivid descriptions in verses 12–16 tell us about the character and destiny of false teachers? Vv. 12–16.

Cross-reference: Matthew 7:15–20

6. What is the positive alternative to following false teachers? Vv. 17–21.

Cross-reference: Acts 20:28–32

7. What does it mean to “keep yourselves in the love of God”? Vv. Jude 20–21.

Cross-reference: John 15:9–10

8. How should Christians respond to people who are doubting or being drawn toward error? Vv. 22–23.

Cross-reference: Galatians 6:1–2

9. What does Jude mean by saying that God is able to “keep you from stumbling”? V. 24.

Cross-reference: Philippians 1:3–6

10. How should Jude change the way we live as Christians and as a church? Vv. 24–25.

Cross-reference: Romans 16:25–27

Lunatics in the Classroom, and Beyond

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“What will you say when a child asks: Why are we driving a vehicle that is killing our planet?”

"Honey, it's retarded." Or something like that.

But in all seriousness, there are elements in modern media, schooling and government, who genuinely and truly believe it is their task to turn your children against you and your way of life and values.

Many parents are sleepwalking into this happening, as well. They might even be seeing it happen to their friends, or people they know, and of course it cannot happen to them, right?

A lack of diligence in what your kids are being taught both when they are with you, and when they are not, often turns into one of the biggest regrets of many older parents. And saying, “We chose a private school for that reason,” does not count as much as you think. I know I went to one, in a good area. They are not always the bulwark of righteousness that many Christian parents think they.

And, of course, the devil knows that if he can get the children to turn against their fathers, and the fathers to turn against their children, then he can destroy a society.

"5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet

Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

6 And he will turn

The hearts of the fathers to the children,

And the hearts of the children to their fathers,

Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse" (Mal. 4:5-6).

Once a society gets to that point, it is almost impossible to preserve.

That overly progressive teacher or that annoyingly invasive government bureaucrat is not harmless. They are actually part of a concerted effort in our modern society to make our way of life unliveable, whether they know they are or not.

Beware of their lunatic influence on your children.

List of References

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[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/25/when-a-child-asks-why-are-we-driving-a-vehicle-that-is-killing-our-planet-what-will-you-say/

Lindsay Clancy is Opening Eyes

 

Paul says something really interesting in Titus 2, that is being highlighted by the Lindsay Clancy trial. He says among other things that women need to be taught how to love their children,

"3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,..." (Tit. 2:3-4).

There are a lot of amazing mothers. I am surrounded by many of them in my family, social network and church environments. Incredible women, doing incredible things for their children and families.

If you are surrounded by such women, you might find Paul's statement, here, that women need to be taught how to love their children, to be strange. But the Lindsay Clancy trial has, once again, shown us that Paul had a supernatural insight into human nature for both men and women. He was not seeking to simply repeat cultural ideas, but rather to convey transcendent truths. Transcendent truths that we ignore at our own peril.

If the culture of the home is broken enough, for long enough, you will have an increasing number of women in society who will support a woman like Lindsay Clancy, as we have all just seen, to our horror. The abortion numbers should have told us this problem existed. If that did not, abortion up to birth should have told us this. But people were so uninterested in hearing this, that it took the evil of a woman blaming her depression for pre-meditated murder to remind us that women need to be taught to love their husbands and children, just like men need to be taught to love their wives.

People forget that Paul lived and wrote in a day where a woman who really did not want her kids could dump them in the forest to let them die of exposure. Something which was common in ancient Rome, Greece and other societies in that day. Or she and her husband could sell unwanted children into slavery; something which also happened. Or they could simply put their children under the authority of a slave or other servant to be raised, trained, and brought up, barely even engaging with them. These are just some of the evils that were accepted.

These things sound unconscionable in our day and age, though many parents have moved back closer to doing the third one through the schooling system. But the support for Clancy amongst a too large subset of women shows us the old pagan ways could easily come back, if society lets them.

Paul knew that a young mother needed the guidance of older, experienced women, especially her family and Christian family, to help her get through the harder stages of pregnancy. He did not know the term post-partum depression, and he did not have children of his own. But he had supernatural insight into the kind of healthy structures a young woman needed around her to get through pregnancy well.

Praise God, for the women I know doing this. May God use the clear nature of Lindsay Clancy's evil to wake up more people to the way our society has been heading.

White Liberal Problems

 

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Why are white liberal women such a problem in modern democracies?

There are a few reasons. But a core one is that they spend the most amount of time around white liberal men, who are far more effeminate and progressive than the average man. Therefore, they are less safe, less stable, and less likely to seek to provide a traditional lifestyle.

No wonder white liberal women are so angry, and so willing to support big government. If they look around and see most of the men around there are more effeminate than them, then that is a valid reason for stress. Women are created to be influenced by the men around them, and especially led by them. When the men around them show no signs of being safe, stable and strong protectors, this sets off alarm bells in the psychology of the women around those men.

How many pretty, talented and promising women go through Hollywood and come out the other side nuts. Why? They spend time around some of the worst types of men; progressive men. This social phenomenon has now spread far and wide.

Some man might read this and say: here we go, another conservative blaming men for the problem that women are causing in society right now. No, I am not quite doing that, not exactly at least. Women have their own agency and the ability to make up their own minds about issues and how they will act in any given situation. But the fact that God created women to be led by men DOES mean that men will have an influence on the women around them. When men are strong and stable, the women around them will feel naturally safer. When the men are not like this it sets of a danger warning in the inner psyche of a woman.

A good example of this is the low status man. A lot of men will see a low status man and see someone who is harmless. But this is not necessarily what women see. Sometimes, often, they will see in the low status guy a man who cannot protect them, might look to them for protection, or worse, in some situations if he has very low character she sees a man who is a potential danger to her, especially when other men are not around. This is one of the core reasons that women flock to higher status men, even often men who other men would see as more dangerous. Because she knows this man is capable of protecting her, indeed that he very likely will.

We have a situation where more and more women are growing up around the kind of men who cannot and do not create a reasonable space of strength and safety for them to flourish in. Why would they not be stressed out.

So, yes, women are responsible for their own decisions and actions, and need to be held accountable for that. But this is something that strong men do, not weak men. As the well chosen picture in the article above shows, and states accurately, “Weak men fear strong women.” This is correct, and when a woman can push around most of the men she knows, who is she going to look to for protection? Herself? Government? Imported men? Where does she look? She looks anywhere she can, and this causes issues for everyone.

This is not just based on anecdotal evidence either,

“In the case of mental and physical well-being, conservatives clearly have something figured out that liberals can learn from. These psychological facts have been highlighted by recent research showing that liberal women are unhappy. Indeed, one study showed that liberal female adolescents were especially prone to increases in depression. Even more recently, a just-published report from the 2024 American Family Survey revealed that liberal women are among the most unhappy people in the country, with only 12 percent saying they are completely satisfied with their lives. Comparatively, conservative women reported being over three times more satisfied.”[2]

Women who grow up in liberal spaces are much less likely to be psychologically happy. My contention is that a big part of the reason for this is the liberal men they grow up around.

A bad man can wear conservative and traditional clothing, but in a progressive space, a bad man does not even need to hide as much.

List of References

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[1] Image source: https://spectator.org/why-are-liberal-women-so-unhappy/

[2] Lucian Conway, 2025, https://spectator.org/why-are-liberal-women-so-unhappy/

Shun the Contentious Woman – How to Handle a Difficult Wife, Part 3

 

I once heard a preacher say that whatever God repeats, that is something he wants us to pay real attention to. This is a very common teaching technique. Every teacher knows that much of what they say will not be retained by the person they are speaking to, so something which makes sense to do in every sermon, or every Bible study, or every teaching opportunity, is to make sure most of what you say reinforces the message you want to stick in people’s minds. So, when the Bible repeats something, you know that it wants us to pay attention.

We see this in the book of Proverbs, and especially on the topic of the dangerous, or contentious woman. If you read Proverbs 1-9 you will see that there is losts of advice for a young man to protect himself from the bad woman. For example, in Proverbs 7 we read,

“7 My son, keep my words,

And treasure my commands within you.

2 Keep my commands and live,

And my law as the apple of your eye.

3 Bind them on your fingers;

Write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

And call understanding your nearest kin,

5 That they may keep you from the immoral woman,

From the seductress who flatters with her words.”

It is important to teach our young men how to be respectful to young women, how to treat younger women as sisters, as Paul the Apostle says, and to guard their sexual desires until marriage. This is vital. But it needs to be noted that the Bible spends more time warning young men about the dangerous harlot than many modern Christians probably realize. Today, we are trained to think of men as the sexually obsessed, and the woman as the sexual object. We have been taught this by movies and other media. But the reality is far more complicated. There are many women who take delight in weaponizing their sexuality to corrupt or even destroy men.

It is true that a lot of women in the porn industry are there because they have been sexually groomed from a young age or even trafficked. This is a reality. But Only Fans shows what happens when you create an almost free market and tell people to gather a fanbase with whatever assets they have. What happens is that women will turn that site into a porn star’s dream, direct access to their simps whom they can exploit at will.

In fact, part of how Only Fans markets itself is as a Feminist driven organization,

“As it’s grown, OnlyFans has sought to use explicit content – its seemingly bottomless source of revenue – as a springboard to greater scale, positioning itself as a tech pioneer with a place among social media giants such as Instagram and X. Key to that effort is making porn more socially acceptable and distancing the company from the abuses often associated with the industry.

The public face of OnlyFans is CEO Keily Blair, an Irish lawyer and self-described feminist and “safety nerd” promoted to the top job in 2023. In public appearances, Blair, 42, presents the platform as lucrative and empowering, particularly for women, and often mentions her two daughters. “I want them to have a good online life,” she told delegates at a UK child-protection conference in 2023. “I want the same for your kids.”[1]

There is often discussion in conservative and Christians circles that one of the reasons that porn is so evil is because it exploits women, and we have to acknowledge that this does happen. But less often is the other prominent side of the problem with porn talked about; that a lot of women use it to exploit men, particularly younger men. This discussion is changing, the language of simps is used to described these men now, because many young men are becoming increasingly aware of how they are exploited by porn. Many now know that they are being exploited for their money, their time, their energy, and their devotion. They are waking up to this reality.

When we read Proverbs 7, we should immediately think of this kind of woman, a woman who knows how to exploit the simple minded,

“6 For at the window of my house

I looked through my lattice,

7 And saw among the simple,

I perceived among the youths,

A young man devoid of understanding,

8 Passing along the street near her corner;

And he took the path to her house

9 In the twilight, in the evening,

In the black and dark night.

10 And there a woman met him,

With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.

11 She was loud and rebellious,

Her feet would not stay at home” (Prov. 7:6-11).

Society is replete with these kinds of dangerous women, and many young men are sent into their embrace like lambs to the slaughter. In fact, in verses 21-22 of Proverbs 7 Solomon uses almost this exact imagery to describe the effect of these women on young men.

But we should not only think of the adulterous woman when we read this passage, or the porn star, even though this certainly should be our primary application. We should also think of the “loud and rebellious” woman who uses her sexuality to trap a man in marriage and then rule over him.

There is a stereotype of marriage, and just relationships in general, that a woman will use her sexuality to trap a man in a committed relationship and once she has achieved her goal, then she will drip feed sexual attention as a means of control. This stereotype exists precisely because it does happen often. But we should not see this as a stereotype of marriage as a whole, even though that is how people do see it, we should, rather, see it as a stereotype of marriage with the difficult woman. The difficult woman uses her sexuality to entrap a man and then to rule over him.

There are many men who live in this sort of arrangement, and they are relatively ok with it. In fact, not only are they ok with it is, in their perspective it “just is what it is.” In their view this is what marriage is. After all, the common stereotype has told them that. As the joke often goes in sit coms, “When was the last time you had sex?” “Are you kidding, I am married!” is the reply. If you watch shows like Everybody Loves Raymond from the late 90’s you will see how the media presented marriage as a relationship where a man longingly desires for sexual attention and it is drip fed to him by his wife when he has done the right thing and earnt it. Shows like this should be seen less as a description of reality and more as an attempt to shape reality. But whichever way you perceive it, there is this understanding in culture that marriage is in general a sexual wasteland.

Why?

Because of this idea that a woman will use sexuality to entrap a man into a relationship. And the truth is that the difficult woman will do this. Many men have experienced this.

This is why this discussion of Proverbs 7 is so important for this third article in our series about How to Handle a Difficult Wife. Solomon is warning men to watch out for that woman. To watch out for the kind of woman who will use their sexuality to entrap you. To watch out for the adulterous woman who says,

“18 Come, let us take our fill of love until morning;

Let us delight ourselves with love.

19 For my husband is not at home;

He has gone on a long journey;

20 He has taken a bag of money with him,

And will come home on the appointed day” (Prov. 7:18-20).

To watch out for the woman who will sell you her body online and trap you into a simping relationship. To watch out for the woman who will honeytrap you into a relationship.

There is a reason why the Bible commands that young men and women avoid sex before marriage. This is to protect them both from the dangers of promiscuity. The problem is that our modern culture is set up to encourage most young people, even Christians, into exploring before cleaving. This sets up many young women to be used by men of a reasonably high status for their temporary enjoyment, and it sets up many young men to find themselves being trapped by the very kind of woman that Solomon warns about. The Bible’s advice is not prudish, but it is prudence.

What is the difference you ask?

Well, ‘prudish’ is a slang term for someone who is “easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity…or…excessively concerned with sexual propriety…” But can you call a book wherein God commands a prophet to walk around naked, another prophet to marry a prostitute, and which uses the words “whore”, “harlot”, or “prostitute”, in hundreds of references “easily shocked by matters relating to sex”? Of course not. God is all seeing, which means he has seen it all, and his word speaks about these things without embarrassment so that we can be led in the right direction and away from certain danger, which is what prudence refers to. A prudent person is someone who shows care and thoughtfulness for the future.

If you allow yourself to become trained to be a simp, to be ensnared by the porn star, then you are training yourself to be exposed by the harlot to this kind of weakness with women. So, to prevent this, you need to be “master of your own domain.” Rather than simp after the “loud and rebellious” woman, you need to shun her from your life. You should aim to be married at a young age, so you can build as much of your life with your wife together as possible. But it is better to take your time to master your own domain, so that when you are searching for a woman you are clear headed, and not in as much danger of being the life-long-simp that so many men become.

Porn should not just be avoided because it is immoral. Though that should be reason enough. It should also be avoided because it weakens your ability to be the clear-headed, respectable man, that a woman will want to submit herself to for life, and live under your frame. A man who can control himself and not be walked all over.

Why do you think that the self-proclaimed feminist CEO of Only Fans describes the site as “lucrative and empowering” particularly for women? Because it trains young men to become life-long simps. It trains them to think that living under the thumb of a contentious woman is what marriage is.

Why do you think the Rolling Stones is concerned that men shunning porn is a right-wing phenomenon?

Because avoiding the trappings of porn and masturbation helps men break out from under the spell of what could turn them into life-long simps. A man who diminishes himself in this way is much more likely to fall into a relationship with a woman who uses sex to draw him in and then use it to dominate him for life.

When feminists and progressives basically confirm what Solomon says, but from the opposite direction, you should really listen to him.

But many people reading this will be thinking, “How does this help me with my difficult wife? I am already living in this kind of situation.” You are right, my article here is more preventative than directed at transforming an already broken marriage. The correlation between a woman who constantly berates her husband and one who has turned down the sexual tap over time, is very high. So, what is your recourse?

Well, remember, look at what Solomon repeats and therein you will find wisdom. In Proverbs 21:9 Solomon says this, “9 Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.”

Just in case the message has not landed he says again in Proverbs 21:19, “19 Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.”

And for those who are particularly hard of hearing, he again says in Proverbs 25:24, “24 It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.”

Three times Solomon writes the same thing. He slightly changes the illustration, but he repeats the same principle three times. If your marriage has descended from a relationship of mutual love and regular affection initiated and reciprocated on both sides, into a situation where the wife is constantly at you and has nothing but contempt for you, then you need to be willing to live anywhere but with her.

In fact, many men find that when they make this decision that is often when things start to turn around. Hence, being willing to shun the contentious woman and live somewhere else, ironically, is one of the more effective ways of reigning in the contentious woman.

Of course, this is not guaranteed to be successful and is often not. Solomon speaks more in principles than in promises. Some marriages are just too far gone, even he recognizes this, “15 A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike; 16 Whoever restrains her restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand” (Prov. 27:15). Sometimes you have failed to assert yourself for too long, or worse, you have made so many mistakes in your marriage that she cannot bring herself back into fellowship with you because all love and marital duty has been drained and the affection that was once there is long gone.

But even if it does not work, Solomon’s words are wise. Some people will say you have to stay and serve her, and live like roommates for life, even though what made your relationship a marriage is functionally dead. And yet Solomon says the opposite. Why?

Because the Bible has an insight into human nature that often those of us who follow its ways do not; until we have seen it applied properly at least. I think behind many, not all, but many contentious and unruly women is fear. Sometimes it is not this, it is just a bad woman. But, remember, I said in my first piece in this series, that any woman can become the bad, or difficult, wife if her husband sows enough negativity. Some women react to this by becoming the difficult wife. It is not what they want to be, it is not what they intended to be, and driving the man away is not their end goal. Sometimes seeing the consequences of her speaking to her husband this way, as he plans to live in his tent somewhere else, will bring her to repentance.

So, sometimes, to save your marriage, you have to be willing to shun it. It sounds counterintuitive. But I think this is at least part of what Solomon’s advice points to, and I have seen this applied in this way, and I have seen it turn things around.

As I said, this is not a guarantee. But then in this fallen world you can do everything right and still things can go wrong. Such is living on this side of paradise…

…Till next time, God bless you.  

List of Refences.

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[1] Andrew Marshall, et. al. 2024, Only Fans Exposed, https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/onlyfans-sex-origins/

Busybodies – When Nature Gets Inverted

 

One day someone is going to do a study that confirms something Paul hints at in the Bible: the higher the proportion of single women in government, the more it will meddle in your life.

“11 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry 12 and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. 13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. 14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. 15 For some have already strayed after Satan.” (1 Tim. 5:11-15).

Women are created to micromanage the home life of their children and grandchildren. This is an important part of how God created them. It is a necessary skill that allows them to create a nurturing environment where their children can learn to be the people that society needs them to be. This takes care, constant oversight, and intentional thought. Mothers need to be involved in the daily lives of their children.

But take these same women out of the home and give them an annual budget, government power, and too much time on their hands? Well, you get the modern West. A society which has governments that meddles in everything. I am predicting that someone will find this correlation sooner or later.

Many Women Love Porn

 

There is a myth that porn is a problem only for men.

But entire genres of literature have been overtaken by literary porn, dressed in medieval fantasy trappings, or 19th century cultural settings, written exclusively for women. In fact, the problem is so bad that many sub genres of fiction have simply become avenues of selling porn to women, and it is taking over the publishing industry.  

I remember being at the beach one day with the family and just looking around and seeing countless women reading the same famous female author who is known for literary porn.

The picture in the article was chosen by the editors for a reason; obviously many other people have seen the same thing.

It has become acceptable for women to dress in barely anything and publicly consume porn. At places where people take their families. Many people don’t realize how sexualized ancient Roman society was. Before the rise of Christianity sexually explicit imagery was plastered all over Greek and Roman cities. This is the natural default of the European peoples, because their cultures were transformed by Christian modesty. What we consider progress today, scantily clad women openly consuming porn in public, is actually a regression to our pre-Christian ancestors’ ways.  

This stuff ruins men and women equally. It will reach into your love life and turn it into a barren wasteland, if you let it consume you, and do not repent of it.  

Consuming porn is like consuming junk food, it ruins your appetite for good food. However, ask anyone who has removed most junk food from their diet for a time, they will tell you that most of the junk they used to eat has lost its appeal. Your body gets addicted to the chemical high of terrible food if eaten a lot. But a body used to healthy food rejects it. For example, give up soft drink for a while and then come back to it, it is hard to drink once you have gotten used to drinking much healthier drinks.

The same happens with porn. You can retrain yourself to find it rejectable. But it takes effort. It is worth the effort. Consuming this stuff is ruining relationships for men and women. It will ruin your relationship too, if you don’t stop.