Saw a"Question"about wife-beating in Christianity/Islam-Can't find anything in the New Testament?

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In this persons rant, she tries to justify the culture of abuse that is Islam by saying that "Christians beat their wives, too!"

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► Christians,In western countries there is no wife beating?
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So I looked up verses in the Quran/Hadiths regarding domestic violence and then went to look up Domestic Violence in the Bible and discovered that I'm unable to locate New Testament verses regarding Wife Beating.

Everything I find is from the Old Testament... LOTS AND LOTS OF PASSAGES from the Old Testament.

So I guess my question is 2 fold:

1. Are there passages in the Christian version of the Judea-Christian holy texts NOT of the Old Testament that espouse the idea that men are justified in beating their women, be it daughters, wives, or slaves? Random acts of murder don't count, I'm talking about overt stance that women are property, like in Ephesians:

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)

2. With the Jewish holy texts so chalk full of orders for "Good Men" to beat their wives and daughters, how is it that domestic violence rates seem so low in the Jewish Community? (Or at least in the American Jewish Community since that's the group I'm most familiar with... Or, as Adam Carolla said, "The North American Domesticated Jew") Is it because almost 75% of all theistically based hate-crimes happen to Jews in the US, so they leave each other alone? 

BONUS: How can people justify their own cultures pandemic of abuse by pointing fingers at others and saying: "THEY DO IT TOO! SO STOP JUDGING US!"? Does that amount of cognitive dissonance hurt?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

In Christianity you can also rape your children, stone your children for back talking you, kill your children if they are not Christian and much more!

RB · Answer

Continue in Ephesians 5, in 25, 28, and 33.
Also check 1 Peter 3:7.
In giving honor to your wife, you wouldn't abuse her.

2. I don't know of Jewish texts other than the Bible Old testament.   I don't see in it where it   says for good men to beat their wives. 

Bonus: That is an improper inference, as just because others do it doesn't make it right.

Anonymous · Answer

Unfortunately, you can not understand the Bible without being a servant of the Christ.  For in such you are completely free, yet does that not seem to you to be an oxymoron itself?  The same is for how to treat woman, ask the Christ  how he would treat even the adulterous women of his day.

Frank Underwood · Answer

Well, child-beating is ordered in the New Testament.

Hebrews 12:6-7: "...the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son. Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?"

Because apparently, beating your child is an act of love.

Church of the Holy Stump · Answer

I'm not sure why you want to exclude the Old Testament... according to Christians it's just as relevant as the new testament... well only the parts they like and can use to discriminate against gay people.  So I see why you pick and choose, part of the christian culture.

? · Answer

A true Christian would never even think of this act. And it's not in  our Bible.

CB

Anonymous · Answer

Living in the Middle East is like living in Alabama

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