Should god punish wives for their husbands' sins?

Well it doesn't seem fair to me.

There seems a great lack of understanding on this principle:

Although "men" will be punished for their own sins - in essence, perhaps we should take a look at exactly what constitutes "Man" or 'men'.

Why don't we see what Jesus has said on this principle:

Regarding Man & wife, He said,

"Wherefore, a man shall leave father & mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall become one flesh; where they are no more twain [2 separate individuals], but one flesh."

God also states similarly when He first made Man in Genesis.

Those who really understand the oneness of marriage and how the two literally become one, and have experienced it, will realize just how real it is that the 2 are co- and interdependent.

Both INTIMATELY 'drive' and affect the other - if they are being "one".

The success or failure of the Patriarch, which is a principle clearly well understood in old testament days and is why the Bible only refers in male-patriarchy terms, is as dependent on the wife's support and belief in what he is doing - especially when a family is involved as well - as it is in his own self-belief.

If she does not genuinely support him and his family decisions or business-career decisions and causes dissension with respect to the same, she is becoming a recipe for disaster in that home, and it will never succeed as an entity!

Probably, ONLY if you have really been in such a committed position of oneness in life would you truly understand the real impact of this meaning and the principle of interaction and interdependence in marriage.

The sarcastic female who said wives nag their husbands, rile them, berate them, etc., etc. and then said she was only being sarcastic just does not know how correct she may have been in just so many instances.

She does not know the real intimacy of marriage, and how wives can upset the spirit of the home, and vice-versa.

It seems that this verse is concerning the worship of idols other than Allah himself because there are people who believe in God and worship other idols as well as god. Theredore, when people are focusing on man and not recognizing god or other things man made Allah gets very upset with the doings of people. For ex: if Alex and is dating Carla and alex is selling drugs and Carla knows of this and she is enjoying the money that is coming in for her and her husband, but she is not recognizing the lord, Allah gets very upset by that and his spirit starts moving in directions that no one willknow how to deal with. When i say recognize i mean the wife is indulged by all the negativity that she is placed in. Like loving herself too much buying all types of clothing and enjoying the worldly things to the point where she does not recognizes the lord himself. Allah comes like a theif in the night and when he comes he comes and takes everything away. However, if the wife is innocent not knowing the things of her husband and she is living righteously upward facingAllah for all her circumstances she shall be saved because she should not suffer for something someone else is doing unknowingly. Allah does not give anyone anything they cant handle.

God would not punish the wives for what their husbands have done!!!

Definition of God:

"The First Cause, the Great I Am, the Unborn One, the Uncreated, the Absolute or Unconditioned, the One and Only, Spirit, or the Creative Energy which is the cause of all visible things. Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Power, Substance, Mind."...'The Science of Mind' by Ernest Holmes, founder of the Religious Science Movement

http://www.religiousscience.org/ucrs_site/our_foun...

Didn't you know that all wives drive their husbands to commit sinful acts? Just look around you, women are the bane of existence for all men. They nag, malign, ridicule, embarrass, and are just an overall nuisance. Of course the alternative is an even less attractive option. So I will stick with women, who knows maybe I will even like the someday. (And for anyone who is thick enough, this was all said in a purely sarcastic tone)

Well that's slightly better than the Bible where it states that God will punish sin to the 7th generation. It also points out that the two gods are very different entities and that neither one is worth of being worshiped.

For one thing you're reading out of the wrong book!

God would never punish a mans wife for something the man had done!

Man is accountable for their own sins!!

If the wife is a servant of God then she'll be just fine!

The One True God does not punish the wife for the husbands sin.... allah is not a god.

Well maybe they encouraged their husbands to sin or knew about it and didnt do anything. I think the word wife is probably used loosely and means anybody, friends or family that know that someone is doing wrong or committing crime and either helping them get away with it or not trying to stop them

Don't worry ... God knows whom to punish. Every one of us is responsible for our own actions. Not our wives, husbands, children or parents or imaginary friends. Grow up!

Man, I hope not. That would totally suck for me. I got out, so as to not be involved with all his "sins". Thank God I'm Catholic.