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Flying Free

Are Christian Abuse Victims Supposed to Be Like Job and Just Suffer? [174]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Spiritual, Narcissism, Self-improvement, Marriage, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Divorce, Christianity, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Imagine two terminally ill children. Both are given three months to live. For one, there’s nothing doctors can do—death is certain. The disease is incurable and untreatable. For the second, there’s a life-saving treatment available. If it isn’t taken, the next three months will be a slow, excruciating crawl toward the end. If the treatment is started as soon as possible, the child will live and—what’s more—thrive. Family, friends, and church leaders of the second child gather around and declare that the life-saving treatment shouldn’t be accepted. Since the first child’s death is certain, it would be best for the second child to accept death as well. The second child should die. In fact, not only is it right to condemn the second child to death, but their suffering and pain will bring glory to God. One more thing. The second child is YOUR child. Thoughts? I have some. So listen in. In this episode: - The 3 main problems with the “suffer like Job” argument - What the world would be like if this faulty logic worked - The difference between Job (and Saul) and abused women (it’s not the lack of beards) - What your role and what’s hanging between your legs have to do with each other (SURPRISE: NOTHING! YAY!) - A one-two punch of resources to combat the “God hates divorce” lie (it’s more like a 20-30 knockout, but you get the drift) - What translations of the Bible have to do with all this - Women who are beasts and like to shovel snow (I swear, it’s relevant) Listen or download the transcript at flyingfreenow.com/174 FREE: I'll send you the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage. Just hop on my mailing list at flyingfreesisterhood.com/free-download. (I will NEVER spam you or sell your information.) Desperate for real help and safe people who understand what you're going through? Find out about my online education and support program for women of faith at joinflyingfree.com And, if you are an already divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, have amazing relationships, build a business or career, or even find a good man - check out joinflyinghigher.com

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

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podcast, a support resource for Women of Faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

0:16.6

emotional and spiritual abuse.

0:21.6

Welcome to episode 174 of the Flying Free Podcast. I just found out something

0:27.4

really amazing this week. I found out that I can access my podcast

0:32.4

analytics on Apple Podcasts. I know it's like ridiculous that I didn't know that or never you know hadn't discovered that before right? I've been doing this for three and a half years.

0:42.8

Anyways, I finally did, and what I found out

0:45.4

is that the flying free podcast has almost 800,000

0:49.5

downloads you guys on Apple Podcasts alone. That doesn't even include other apps like

0:54.9

Spotify or Stitcher or Google Podcasts or all those other ones. We have almost

1:00.5

5,000 subscribers on Apple Podcasts and 12,000 listeners.

1:06.5

That's amazing!

1:08.3

And I hope it helps you realize that you're not alone.

1:11.4

I know you might feel alone, sitting in your car listening to this

1:14.7

podcast or maybe you're walking in your neighborhood or doing your laundry or

1:19.0

making dinner or sitting on your couch watching your babies.

1:23.0

But you're not alone.

1:25.0

Right now, across the world, there are thousands of other women just like you,

1:30.0

wishing they were seen and understood.

1:34.2

And even though we can't connect in person

1:36.5

at this point in history,

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we can connect in spirit and in love.

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