While leaving a comment over @ Elusive Wapiti, I had to leave a comment on his recent post about pedestalizing men. I posited that women are INCAPABLE of giving love as we understand it. Here's why...
I have heard it said that God will NOT command us to do something we are not capable of doing ourselves. In the Bible (Eph. 5), men are commanded to love their wives, but wives are NOT commanded to love their husbands; wives are commanded to submit to their husbands, but they are NEVER told to love them. Why didn't God put that command in the Bible? Simple-because wives are NOT capable of loving their husbands-duh!
That, of course, begs an obvious question: are there any good women out there? As a matter, no; the Bible says that they don't exist. Where, oh where, does the Bible say THAT, MarkyMark? Ever hear of the book, Ecclesiastes? Well, if you read chapter 7, it clearly lays it out in there. It says that the Preacher (i.e. King Solomon, the richest, wisest man in the world at that time) one in a thousand men he found were good, yet not ONE GOOD WOMAN could he find! Is it any clearer than that?!
Come, let us reason together, shall we? According to classic Christian doctrine, isn't the Bible the Word of God? As such, is it not perfect and inerrant, having no mistakes whatsoever? Does not the Bible, according to Christian doctrine, contain the MIND of God? Well, if God says that no good women exist, mustn't it be true? If God does not give women a command to love their husbands, is it not because they are incapable of following it? If they're incapable of following that command, doesn't that mean, by extension, that women cannot, and will not, love their husbands?
Ah, but MarkyMark, what about Proverbs 31, which lays out the template of the ideal wife? I'm glad you asked, because I am about to tell you! Proverbs 31 does lay out what the ideal wife looks and acts like. HOWEVER-and this is key-I believe that Proverbs 31 is really saying this: if you want a good woman, GOOD LUCK finding one; they don't exist! Even if they do exist, there clearly aren't enough to go around. Finding such a woman would be akin to winning the lottery; you now some lucky SOB will hit it, but it won't be you, Hoss...
In closing, women are incapable of love. Why? Because the Bible never, ever commands a person to do something they are not capable of; since women are never commanded to love their husbands, they are not capable of loving them. Also, Ecc. 7 says that the Preacher found NO good women; since the Bible, the Word of God, says that no good women could be found, there are none out there. It's all in God's word, the Bible, folks...