WOW! Just wow!
1. Are you saying my parenting has absolutely no effect on my son's spiritual life? Why did God give us Deuteronomy 6 and tell us to teach and train our children about God? Why does Proverbs say to "train up a child in the way he should go?" Eph. says "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
-Are you saying Wives cannot obey Galatians 6:1? If they are spiritual, and the husband is caught in a sin, is it not her responsibility to work toward his correction and restoration?
2. Acts 18:24 Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, icompetent in the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit,7 he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only lthe baptism of John.
26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him nthe way of God more accurately.
-There is NO indication in these verses that Priscilla did anything wrong here. There IS a Biblical record of her and her husband teaching Apollos, and that apollos ministry was fruitful after this teaching.
Let's review the actual words of scripture, and the actual words I wrote in response to your excellent questions. This would be for the sake of parsing out the difference between words and what human imagination would want to insert between the words.
Have you aver observed anyone who compulsively "reads in between the lines" without first reading the lines themselves ... ? I have quite often. Perhaps just for fun and giggles you might look for and identify a few of your friends and acquantances who do that. Of course you might want to refrain from saying anything about it to them, but just smile and be "nice" so that they do not get upset and afraid. And, please remember here I am not teaching you anything. I am just being a source for you to experience:
1.) Information.
2.) Suggestions.
3.) Chatty notions.
4.) A gentle reminder.
5.) A possible insight into human thought processes.
6.) An opportunity to build a relationship with God's Word.
If you do not like any of this, please remember I will not be going to Hell because of your aversive response. As well, if you do indeed like what I am doing here for you, then God will reward me in Heaven for helping to minister to The Body of Christ. Don't we worship and serve a Great God? Yes, We do!
I did not say your words and relationship with your son have "absolutely no effect" on his Faith. I did say in effect his Faith and eternal relationship with God is between God and him. Try not to exaggerate. Thank you.
Yes, Deuteronomy, Proverbs, and Ephesians do give you instructions for your son's upbringing in The Lord, but your son's Salvation is apart from you and your effects upon him. There is no place in Scripture which says a father can ruin the appointed Salvation of any child. God bless your mind and your heart as you learn to accept God's Word for today.
Regarding a wife who has a husband in sin, Apostle Peter clearly teaches in Ch. 3 Vss. 1-2 KJV:
"Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that is any obey not the word, they also without the word be won by the behavior of the wives; while they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear."
Does this help you to understand how to keep from railing against or bossily controlling your husband when he is not perfectly obedient to God? It should. Praise the Lord for His advice to wives which is clear and needs no modification.
Apparently, Apostle Paul had not yet corrected Priscilla about teaching men. I am sure people were praying for Priscilla as she grew in The Lord. Isn't The Body precious as it loves those in service to God? Isn't God Gracious not to judge Priscilla within Scripture, but rather let her move towards maturity as she was able to accept it? God is so Gracious, isn't He?
I love your questions and willingness to understand Scripture. Thanks for sharing.
