The name of Christ

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I don't usually post controversial things, or share my opinion on here that often.  But yesterday as I was scrolling through my news feed on facebook, I clicked on an article on Christian marriage. As I read, I was horrified and sickened to discover that there is a movement out there that teaches that it is godly and biblical for husbands to physically,and emotionally abuse their wives. The author had mixed in enough truth from scripture to possibly deceive someone into thinking that God teaches and requires this behavior. He took something beautiful that God created, marriage a picture of Christ and the church, and turned it into something disgusting and evil, all in the name of Christ. Unfortunately I have some experience of oppression, and adding requirements to God's word in my past so this kind of thing greatly upsets and scares me. I've seen the kind of damage that can come from false teachings :-(

So my thoughts after reading this? Christian friends, read your Bible, study it, know it inside and out, cover to cover so if someone tries to teach you a false doctrine, covered in a little truth, it will hopefully be immediately apparent to you and you can flee that teacher. And keep our teachers, pastors, authorities in prayer, that they will use their position for good, and not for evil. And as for my myself, I'll try to be more careful about what links I click on. I can never "unread" those things :-(

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Matthew 18:6

"......where he warns all people, as they will answer it at their utmost peril, not to offer any injury to one of Christ’s little ones. This word makes a wall of fire about them; he that touches them, touches the apple of God’s eye.

Observe, First, The crime supposed; offending one of these little ones that believe in Christ. Their believing in Christ, though they be little ones, unites them to him, and interests him in their cause, so that, as they partake of the benefit of his sufferings, he also partakes in the wrong of theirs. Even the little ones that believe have the same privileges with the great ones, for they have all obtained like precious faith. There are those that offend these little ones, by drawing them to sin (1 Cor. 8:10, 11), grieving and vexing their righteous souls, discouraging them, taking occasion from their mildness to make a prey of them in their persons, families, goods, or good name. Thus the best men have often met with the worst treatment in this world.

Secondly, The punishment of this crime; intimated in that word, Better for him that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. The sin is so heinous, and the ruin proportionably so great, that he had better undergo the sorest punishments inflicted on the worst of malefactors, which can only kill the body. Note, 1. Hell is worse than the depth of the sea; for it is a bottomless pit, and it is a burning lake. The depth of the sea is only killing, but hell is tormenting. We meet with one that had comfort in the depth of the sea, it was Jonah (Matt. 2:2, 4, 9); but never any had the least grain or glimpse of comfort in hell, nor will have to eternity. 2. The irresistible irrevocable doom of the great Judge will sink sooner and surer, and bind faster, than a mill-stone hanged about the neck. It fixes a great gulf, which can never be broken through, Luke 16:26. Offending Christ’s little ones, though by omission, is assigned as the reason of that dreadful sentence, Go ye cursed, which will at last be the doom of proud persecutors."

Matthew Henry on Matthew 18:6