By Lance Knight                                                                                                 

I read the newspaper and watch CNN...so much bad news; 'husband kills wife and children', 'mother starves child', '9 year old kills father', on and on it goes day in and day out.  How do we end these kinds of inhumanity toward man?  Where's the love? 

It seems to me that somehow we must go back to basics, "back to our future!”  Christ was all about love; "Be ye kind one to another."  Indeed, like it or not, the answer, the solution, is in the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible. Even for nonbelievers the principles still work to prevent and to help solve the disturbances and disruptions in families everywhere.  Therefore, I believe that dysfunctional families are the result of ignorance and/or disobedience...God says, "My people suffer for lack of knowledge."

The ‘man’ was intended to be the anchor of society, not because women are less able, but because that was the way God set it up.  Man is told to be holy and devoted to God.  When man is obedient to God he does not marry a woman who is not of his belief...He must not be unequally yoked to a woman who is a nonbeliever and she is not to unequally yoked to a man who is not of her faith.  When man obeys God by wedding a woman of like beliefs then he has already begun the first step of the Bibical guidelines that can prevent many of the kinds of failures we see in today's families.

So when the men of this world begin to emulate Jesus Christ, they will exemplify unconditional love for their wives and children...there will follow, after the fathers'/husbands' example, order, peace, love, respect, accountability, and happiness.

God Almighty is the God of order.  Think about it...He told the seas, the stars, the animals, the plants, the seasons and all things what, where and when to do what he spoke into them from the beginning. However, when Adam and Eve decided to disobey God, Satan took over. Ever since then man is the only creation in the universe that does not perform exactly as He commanded...all the Heavens and the Earth obey God...except Man!