Wolfeye wrote:newlifeinphilippines: What do you mean "reach total submission to God"? Like God is going to be in your place instead of you?
I never got that idea or why people think that would be safe, because it's like someone's trying to demonically possess God- but an ambushing kind of way. Like trying to trap God, basically. I don't think asking God for help is an act of hostility, but someone trying to get God to be their implement & live their lives for them would have good reason to believe that God would be furious about that.
I also don't get how a relationship with women would get in the way of God. I would think it could be seen as Curiously, people don't tend to see it that way with men. It's being involved in any way with women that is seen as a problem. Or maybe it's with the opposite sex overall?
submission means servitude. When you are born again the holy spirit takes place in your body to change your heart so over time you should want to automatically strive better but he gives you a free will and you will still sin and be responsible for backsliding or sins you are struggling with. Over time you should try to strive to be better especially as you try to read scripture and yearn from him which is supposed to cause the holy spirit to help empower you to become holier, instead of turning away and trying to foolishly chase the temporary pleasures of this world.
Women definitely can be of the devil. They cause you to fornicate, waste money, possibly impregnate a woman you dont want to, cause drama and fighting or even adultery, and foolishly go to far away lands (which is actually a sin in itself to want to go away for adventure) and to endlessly chase one woman after another acheiving nothing. If one can manage self control and can quickly find a wife its the opposite but if one is very weak in this area it could lead to a lot of damage at least for me. God even says to not put yourself in places of temptation and this would be one of them.
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." —1st John 2:15-17
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” —1st Peter 2:11