Author	Thread: Ladies, Your Opinions Please.
Admin	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 04:02 PM So honestly, how do you view the words "help mate"? How does it make you feel to be considered a help mate? Do you consider this your role in a marriage? Or is this a demeaning term to you? I wonder if anyone will answer? Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 04:30 PM Beings that I'm a "help mate" to Christ, Christ being my Headship, I would think how one feels would depend on their interpretation of the title. Philippians 2:6 says this about Christ in relation to the Father... "who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped," Christ Himself was a "help meet" to the Father... Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 04:31 PM Two, Sorry if I spoke to soon :/ Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 04:39 PM Two, sorry didn't answer, just now saw it. No, I do not think it's demeaning to be considered a help mate or helper. In a job, one person is the Boss, everyone else is there to help him. In a family, only one person can be the leader, otherwise there is chaos. In both the work place and in the family, just because one is the helper, does not mean what they do has no value. Neither the boss or the head of the family can do everything, nor can they see everything. Thats were they have assistants to step up and fill in. Post Reply
lynneb423 View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 04:43 PM I'm not as eloquent as some, but I don't mind answering this question. :glow: I don't think of being a help mate as demeaning to a woman at all; in fact I only wish I had the opportunity to be a help meet to someone. Now, Lord ... NOW! :goofball: That is definitely the role I see for myself in marriage: providing a home for my husband that is a warm environment; free from contention and strife- providing for him what he needs. Not solely someone to cook or clean- but to be his support base; providing encouragement, appreciation for what he does for me, admiring who he is, letting him know how much I trust him and his direction for our life, and most importantly- respecting him. And as an added bonus for me- being a help mate in some ministry capacity of serving God together. That would be an awesome life and marriage! Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 05:20 PM LynneB took all the things I wanted to say. Good job, girl! :applause: I am looking FORWARD to being a help meet someday, God willing. Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 05:21 PM hee hee hee I meant "help mate" Slip of the 'ole fingers Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 05:37 PM It's an honor and comes pretty natural for me. I would love to serve a husband who actually appreciated it. Serving Jesus is also serving my husband, so I would never feel less than at all. Bowing is something our nation's women know nothing about, but I do it a lot with my heavenly Husband and it brings me closer to him. A great woman of God must be a great servant and I don't mean being walked on and treated like a slave. :glow: Post Reply
nepb47 View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 15 May, 2011 10:19 PM I think the term "help mate" is rather odd, I have never liked it. I understand the concept and I certainly believe the wife is called by God to be a helpful, submissive companion. But I think the position deserves a more glamorous term. I just haven't thought of anything better. The word "help' is fine, but "mate" either means your buddy ..or what animals do. There's got to be a better word. NB Post Reply
View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 16 May, 2011 12:44 AM I don't think "mate" was the original word. "ORD HISTORY The existence of the synonyms helpmeet and helpmate is the result of an error compounded. God's promise to Adam in Genesis 2:18, as rendered in the King James version of the Bible (1611), was to give him "an help [helper] meet [fit or suitable] for him." The poet John Dryden's 1673 use of the phrase "help-meet for man," with a hyphen between help and meet, was one step on the way toward the establishment of the phrase "help meet" as an independent word. Another was the use of "help meet" without "for man" to mean a suitable helper, usually a spouse, as Eve had been to Adam. Despite such usages, helpmeet was not usually thought of as a word in its own right until the 19th century. Nonetheless, the phrase "help meet" probably played a role in the creation of helpmate, from help and mate, first recorded in 1715." Post Reply
riveroflife1 View Profile History	Ladies, Your Opinions Please. Posted : 16 May, 2011 09:26 AM We know it's our role but most men abuse it. Post Reply

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