“A Man Does Not Need Love”

Posted on July 24, 2018 by admin

A few days ago someone told me they were listening to a “Christian” program where the preacher was saying that men need respect and women need love. The foundation of this teaching being that the Bible does not teach wives to love their husbands, but instructs men to love their wives. Subsequently, I learned that the late “Christian” preacher Dr. Myles Munroe was one of the proponents of this teaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1mgv6mkqjE

Later, I went on the internet and found a YouTube video of Dr. Munroe’s entitled “The number one need of a man” published on January 20, 2017. As of my last viewing, it had over 94,000 views, close to 1,800 likes and 22 dislikes.

In this video, which is slightly over four minutes long, Dr. Munroe makes the following statements:

  • A man doesn’t want respect, he needs it.
  • A man does not need love
  • Nowhere in the Bible does it ever say a woman should love a man. It doesn’t exist in scripture.
  • A man interprets respect as love

Dr. Monroe quotes Ephesians chapter 5 verses 22 to 33 to affirm his teaching of the duty of husbands to love their wives and conversely for wives to respect their husbands. This lie has No place in the teachings of Christ.

In the New Testament epistle of Titus chapter 2 verse 4 it refutes Dr. Munroe’s assertion that there isn’t any scripture in the Bible which teaches a wife to love her husband. However, for greater context, I will quote from verses 3 to 5:

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; (Titus 2:3 KJV)

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, (Titus 2:4 KJV)

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (Titus 2:5 KJV)

The commandment given to the Disciples of Christ is to love one another.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. (John 15:12 KJV)

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. (2 John 1:5 KJV)

Therefore, I ask a simple question: How is it disciples – both male and female — of Christ are called to love one another, but sisters of the faith, once they become wives, are no longer required to love their husbands in Christ?

Charity as it is referred to in the King James (KJV) version of I Corinthians chapter 13 verses 4 to 7, defines the conduct of love. So, should the daughter of Christ, who is now a wife, forfeit the commandment of Christ to love her husband/brother in the faith?

The Lord warned His precious sheep to take heed that no man deceive them?

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8 KJV)

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (1 Timothy 4:1 KJV)

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1 KJV)

Those who seek to serve the Lord in Spirit and in truth will do well if they heed these words.

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They will Privatize the Air we Breathe

Posted on May 27, 2017 by admin

What in the name of the living Christ is going on in Trinidad and Tobago?  I definitely can’t be the only one who sees this.

Outdated computer books
Outdated computer books

I went to our National Library in Port of Spain recently, and it was a depressing experience. I remember when it was first opened.  It was a bee-hive of activity.  It had facilities and services frequent library users had never seen or used before.

There were several computerized search catalogues, numerous workstations linked to the internet, and copy services.  Today, and for quite some time now, it is a shadow of its former self.  Nothing is maintained in Trinidad and Tobago.  Everything is allowed just to fall apart.

I went to the section offering books on computer technology, and it reflects the mindset which is so pervasive throughout this country and characteristic of the leadership we have been saddled with for over 50 years.  All the material was out of date and irrelevant.

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The Evil Origins of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival

Posted on May 26, 2017 by admin
True manhood is not defined, in my view, by how many women you can have sex with.  Neither is it the capacity for consuming alcoholic beverages either.  Yet, Trinidad and Tobago society sets this as the standard for male prowess.
 
Listen to the lyrics our “entertainers”, who are held in high esteem, espouse in our twin-island republic.  Their genre follows two main themes: sex and alcohol.  No wonder, our society is filled with moral decadence and decay.
 
Despite this, our leaders endorse this definition by participating in “we” culture, instead of promoting true manliness, fatherhood and the example of an honourable carriage for our people to follow.  As a result, our nation has marched headlong into the dark abyss of criminal and moral mayhem.
 
Almost at the start of every year participants in our country’s Carnival pay unashamed homage to Bacchus (The Roman god known by the Greeks as Dionysus).  It is this Roman deity’s name from which we get today’s English word “bacchanal”.  Many will be surprised to learn of the similarities between the celebrations held for Bacchus and our world-renowned Carnival.

 Dionysus was the god of wine and debauchery – excessive or immoral activities involving sex, alcohol, food, or drugs. Women were among its primary participants.  They would quite literarily let themselves “go”.  They wore, at times, animal-skin costumes, and they would be partially naked or completely nude.  They engaged in wild dancing and ecstatic behaviour.  This, coupled with their nakedness, attracted many men.
 
Another characteristic of the worship of Dionysus involved phallic songs – focus on the size of the penis.  Need I remind the connoisseurs of Trinidad and Tobago’s music of this 2000 phallic offering by the soca artiste called Preacher: “…two sapodilla and a nine inch banana.”?
 
Among the numerous odes of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2017 Carnival is this lyrical offering from the artiste known as Pternsky “Enjoy yuh (your) self…” – a verse that is part of many soca songs.  Dionysus was also known as the god of joy and burden.  He is associated with exuberance but also death.  In mythical funerary art Hades (The Greek god of the underworld – hell) and Dionysus are the same.
 
Therefore, it is no surprise to me why our murder rate keeps climbing.  In place of the animal sacrifices which were part of the celebrations for Dionysus, our land instead is paying with human blood.  Dionysus’ dark side was said to involve murder, bloodshed, madness and violence which included gender violence.  Dionysian celebrations were also viewed as having a negative impact on family life.
 
Ultimately, you have a choice to make citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.  You can continue going down the path of destruction you have chosen for yourselves, or decide to make a different offering to God, family and a truly honourable future.

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