They say that "it takes two to tango."

Even though one (of those who tango together) might be [somewhat] superior to the inferior one. Perhaps even significant superior in some areas (like sewing and childbearing).

But, it still takes two to tango.

It takes two to make a marriage (both the superior and the inferior gender). There is no marriage possible for a man alone by himself. And there is no marriage possible for a woman alone by herself.

There are some who presume that God is irrelevant - if they even admit that He existed or still exists and possibly is yet actively and currently "interfering or involving Himself with, or intervening, at times regulating, or disruptively manipulating human thoughts and actions."

All that is important (to them who humanistically embrace that ideology) are: human beings, human needs, human desires, human fulfillment, and human accomplishments . . . and "to hell" with any thought of or participation by "God" the extra-terrestrial? trinitarian creator(s) (who, to them, perhaps got everything started back in the beginning but then left the entire scene to let things run automatically by themselves).

However, there are others who presume that only GOD is relevant. "Only God is to be praised." "We need to forget "the negative" and simply praise the Lord "positively" while turning our eyes and attention off of us." "What pleases God is for us to mouth a few simplistic I'm-OK-You're-OK-He's-OK pablum-baby-doctrine-lyrics praise-song mantras on Sunday mornings, which He most likely considers quite acceptable."

"Grace alone saves us -- not anything that we do (or even do not do). So we are at liberty in this country to do just about anything we want, within legality and reason, and it does not matter (as long as the parents, employers, and cops do not find out who might want to unconstitutionally invade our privacy and free speech), because God always unconditionally forgives us no matter what we sometimes do, whatever accidents and oopsies we do . . . if we say that we are "sorry" afterwards." "So most everyone is probably going to make it into heaven because they are all trying the best they can under sometimes duressing circumstances, and they themselves actually do not have to do anything by themselves in their own strength or power or goodness to get there: GOD comes to them, and God does it ALL."

"Actually, therefore, we do not even have to believe non-scientific impossible miracles, because Jesus has believed for us in our place. We do not have to pray long prayers every single second of every single minute 24/7 with canned-wording prayers to anyone else, because He (and maybe Mary and other dead catholic saints) already intercede for us with "sighs too deep for words," so we are never [impolitely] condemned:"

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
Jeremiah 3:10 "Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD.
Mark 12:40 "...who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."

Romans 8:27 And He who searches the hearts of [feminist-sexist] women (and men?) knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8:34 who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?

"When push comes to shove, and it gets right down to it, we do not even have to perfectly obey (being that we cannot), because He has already perfectly obeyed for us, and has imputed His Divine perfection to us. We do not even have to praise Him every second of every minute of every day with our little hands folded and not steady on the steering wheel, because we have to sleep at night without laying awake praying for every little minute detail about every single person on the entire planet who we do not even know anything about, and we have to pay close attention to what the teacher says in the classroom and not let our sleep-deprived minds wander off into some long windy prayer, presuming that we will be heard for our many words."

Matthew 6:7 And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

"Only God works. Only God counts . . . and humans -- with their pithy and quasi-selfish needs, wants, participation, immoral and somewhat-indecent semi-immodest-during-warm-weather inadequacies seriously needing correction and rectification, and laudable admiration and glory for whatever praiseworthy filthy-rags good they presume that they themselves do instead of hit-and-miss harmless oopsies they accidentally also do . . . are irrelevant nothings to be ignored and even disdained?"

What kind of a marriage would there be if only the husband took initiative toward his wife, and she herself never responded -- but merely stood there frozen like a statute or laid there as a zombie or cold fish?

Perhaps she would soon hear her husband exclaim: "My attorney will be talking to yours."

"Pro-homogay lutherans, episcopalians, united methodist, united presbyterians, and unitarians presume that we cannot accept God, but simply "not reject" Him, and thus must be content to be saved and quietly worship as stationary and meditatively-boring, sedately-seated zombies in the pews as He tries to non-coercively brainwash us with outmoded religious propaganda."

"Narrow-minded religious pharisees counter with the save-yourself-by-yourself self-atonement heresy of the "bride-of-Christ" herself actively and aggressively participating and responding with the following for-Jews-only proof-texts:"

Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God (not be afraid and run away from Him, but instead be afraid to run away from Him), to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
30:2 and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you this day, with all your heart and with all your soul;
30:6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
30:10 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Joshua 22:5 Take good care to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."

First Samuel 7:3 Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your heart to the LORD, and serve Him only, and He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines (or "palestinians")."
12:20 And Samuel said to the people, "Fear not; you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, (but keep your powder dry) and do not rely on your own insight.

Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart

Ezekiel 5:11 "Wherefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity."
Ezekiel 20:31 When you offer your gifts and murder your children by abortion homicide, you defile yourselves with all your porno-glamor styles-and-fashions idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you."

Joel 2:12 "Yet even now," says the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning

"Be happy." "Let's party!" "Lighten up, and let's have a little humor." "Have fun, and a little comedy to cheer things up!" "Laugh, and enjoy yourself!" "Don't take yourself so seriously."

"It is far less controversial for church-service leaders to wimpishly compromise by having teen-oriented praise bands of rock guitars and drums accompany non-old-fashioned teen congregants with "Give glory only to God" non-four-part-harmony screen-projected pop lyrics (and not get hung up with noses stuck in dinosaur hymnals rife and reeking with downer doctrines of sin and repentance against youth comfortably at ease and not nervously uptight with showing off a little healthy "immodest-misattire" sexiness as admired objects of temporarily-silent-and-quiet then in-motion 3-dimensional stumbling blocks of noxious mopheaded/nude-armed/naked-legged/toes-exposing sexual harassment who (not merely "which") simply can be disregarded if anyone is too weak to handle it and does not want to gaze at such."

"Added to all this, my mopheaded hairstyles and naked-armed sleeveslessness, nude legs exposed by shortened slacks, skirts, and shorts, plus my soxless bare feet partially exposed by noisy flipflop sandals are contemporary up-to-date warm-weather styles and fashions of most others around me, perverts and pervertesses who comprise the immoral majority, consisting of my immediate relatives, friends, and strangers who would otherwise question and disdain me if I dressed like my great-great-great-great-great grandmother of the Old West in the 1800s, like weirdo prudish puritans or pious amish or fundamentalist-crazy radical islamic women wearing shawls and robes in hot weather, or even the outmoded dress code of some ancient foreign people who lived in a foreign land with foreign customs mentioned in The Bible. What I incessantly see on cable TV and in women's magazines in store racks are my standard for fashion, not repressive styles of ancient history."

"ARE apostate heretics who insist otherwise and claim that anything humans would do, can do, and do do in respond to God's aggression (imposed without first asking them for their permission) blasphemous "works righteousness, wickedly discrediting what God only has done for them?"

"I have accepted Christ as my Savior, and thus been born again, and so all my past, present, and future sins have been covered by the blood of the Lamb, so I can sorta-kinda immodestly dress a little "provocative" now and then and it does not count against me."

"Besides, if the pastor or an elder or one of the deacons makes a big deal out of it, I'll simply cut down on the amount I give in the offering plate, and if it gets bad enough, I'll pretty much discontinue going to that church altogether and go somewhere else where they are not so legalistically nitpicky and prudish."

"Moreover, they are probably more "hypocritical" than I am - being that "those who teach will be held according to a stricter standard," according to the Bible, and I am "not expected to go beyond the elementary doctrines of the faith or go beyond the measure of my faith."

"Not only that, 'God judges the inward heart, not by outward appearance:'"

First Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."

"We're saved by grace, not by [always-being-modestly-clothed in cultic burkas or hijabs] works, so no one can boast."

First Corinthians 1:29 ...so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

"And I have already sinned somewhat immodestly, so I might as well go a little further before I have to confess my sins next Sunday:"

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

"Not only that, but no one can be perfect. We're only human, and not expected to never ever make any, even one, mistake during our lives."

Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
Psalm 14:3 They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.
Psalm 53:3 They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does good and never sins.
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin.
Romans 3:10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
Galatians 4:11 I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.
James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
First John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

"God is not that demanding, not that harsh, not that cruel. He is a God of LOVE, LOVE, LOVE ... and patience, and tolerance." He is NON-judgmental, and so should we be, and let each one do whatever what they want, because it's a free country, and:

Revelation 22:11 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy (if that is what they want)."

"So, let the holier-than-thou continue to think that they are holier-than-thou. Besides, it is right to bare certain parts our beautiful bodies which we should be proud and not ashamed of to others, so that we can compare, because how else can we get each other's attention and be attracted to who we should select to be and stay our friends or mates?"

"If the pastor begins to rattle our cage, gets too personal, embarrassing, and belittles us by bombarding us with misinterpreted Scripture verses taken out of context, we simply will not attend church services as much as before, and maybe even only go on Easter, because even the prophet says:"

Amos 5:21 "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies."

"Besides, once or twice attending church satisfies Scripture:"

Hebrews 10:25 . . . not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

"Plus, we cross-of-Christ-despising, persecution-abhorring cowards are going to whisked away anyway by mythical and baseless pre-Trib Rapture, so we don't have to worry about having or taking time to adjust whatever alleged misbehaviors others purport that we have."

"Not only that, but we are all "worthless sinners" anyway, and according to some church authorities we must thus degrade ourselves in humiliating and sorrowful self-deprecation so that our self-esteem becomes zero, leading to possible manic depression and psychiatric treatment:"

James 5:1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

"That must be done to fulfill:"

Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?"

. . . when all He has told us to do is "believe in Him and that He died on some cross around two millennia ago over in Israel?"

"Isn't it "right and good in the sight of the LORD" to have driver's licenses on us when we drive, and stop at red stoplights unless there is no one else around, and not go more than 3 mph over the posted speed limit, because:"

Deuteronomy 6:18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers
12:28 Be careful to mind all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you for ever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
31:29 For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands."

First Kings 11:38 And if you will positively respond to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
18:18 And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father's house, because you have rejected the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals.
21:20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, Oh my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.

"When the Bible refers to "doing good works," isn't it enough to simply "believe," and that's it, because:"

John 6:29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent."

James 2:19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe -- and shudder.
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he [in temporary insanity?] offered his son Isaac upon the altar fully intent on stabbing him to death Canaanite-style?
2:24 You see that a man (and woman?) is justified by [doing evil, or instead "good"?] works and not by [non-reliable faltering?] faith alone.
2:25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

"If prostitutes are justified, why not get and have a little porn around now and then, because:"

Matthew 21:31 ... Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the Obama-IRS tax collectors and backpage.com harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

"Should not those who do metro and suburban nude exchange massage with masseuses and escorts get a prize or rewarded in some way, because:"

Luke 15:30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf.

"Doing the "good work" of having sex with a harlot, and not merely having faith of sorts now and then in whoever, is what we will be judged on at The Last Day:?"

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done.

"TV preachers are in it mostly for the money anyway, and church clergy should not endanger their non-Tea-Party tax-exempt status by contradicting IRS feminist Equal Rights, homosexual and abortion Human Rights, and black-racist Civil Rights laws."

"You want proof that only God matters, and that whoever who cannot atone for themselves by themselves can get away with all sorts of things and ignored?"

Acts 11:8 But I said, 'No, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'

"It is hard to believe that he never ate anything off the ground which had a least a tiny bit of snot, pus, blood, urine or feces or semen on it."

John 18:20 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly.

"Oh yeah?"

Matthew 16:20 Then He strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that He was the Christ.
Mark 7:36 And He charged them to tell no one; but the more He charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
Mark 8:30 And He charged them (and Bible-book authors?) to tell no one about Him.
Luke 8:56 And her parents were amazed; but He charged them to tell no one (including Luke the gospel author?) what had happened.

Revelation 10:4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down."

"Even Paul admitted that nothing good was in him, including his desire to please God? because:"

Romans 7:18 For I know that nothing good resides within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Romans 14:14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.

"So sleeveless or halter-top dresses, low-cut blouses, shortened slacks and skirts and shorts, and soxless feet in noisy flipflop sandals porn is only unclean if one thinks that it is unclean, and not simply prurient normal healthy erotic art?"

First Corinthians 1:28 God chose what is low (low-cut revealing boobie-tops?) and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are

"So, nothing actually exists?"

Luke 12:2 Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed (consider the lurid images and squirrely heresies of Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Swedish Erotica, wearehairy.com/WordPress/KofilmProductions/Pinterest/Tumblr/Pathos mixed-wrestling vids and excusive irrationalizations) or hidden that will not be known.

"Really?"

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Matthew 24:36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."
First Corinthians 11:22 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

"So, some people have "nothing?" No clothes. No bank account. No job. No relatives. No father nor mother. No toilet. No toilet paper? No car keys?"

"Mentally unstable in that they cannot make up their minds?:"

Second Corinthians 6:10 ... as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having NOTHING, and yet possessing everything.

"Having nothing?

"No food. No drink. No air to breathe. No access to sunlight and gravity? No clothes. No bank account. No job. No relatives. No father nor mother. No toilet. No toilet paper?"

Matthew 21:19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And He said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.

"Leaves only? No bark? No sap?"

First Corinthians 2:2 For I decided to know NOTHING among you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

"Know NOTHING? Know nothing about all the rest of the Bible? Know nothing about paying bills, getting and keeping a job, taking care of relatives? Playing poker? Urinating and defecating? Breathing?"

Second Corinthians 12:11 I have been a fool! (Yep!) You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am NOTHING.

"Paul is nothing. He never existed, because he was nothing."

First Timothy 6:7 ... for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world

"We take out our free wills out of this world."

Mark 7:15 there is nothing outside a human [Gr. anthropos] which by going into him/her can defile him/her; but the things which come out of a man/woman are what defile him/her."
Luke 10:19 Hey, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you.

"NOTHING shall hurt us? Not even nerve gas, bullets shot into our brains, knives stabbed into our hearts, hammers bludgeoning us, rocks smashing our skulls, being run over by a Mack truck, poisonous snakes and mushrooms, radioactive plutonium, dynamite exploding in our face? Jumping off a cliff or a temple roof to sharp rocks below?"

Mark 6:8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;
Luke 9:3 And He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.

"Take NOTHING for your journey. No cash nor credit card, especially if you want to buy gas for your car. No motorcycle. Take no clothes, go nude and be arrested. Take no shoes and go barefoot, and burn your feet walking hot asphalt or cement roads in hot summertime, particularly in view of:"

Jeremiah 2:25 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'

Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish.

"Let sheisters and thieves steal your entire bank account, and throw in your house and car besides. Advertise for them to do it."

Galatians 6:3 For if any one thinks he/she is something, when he/she is nothing, he/she deceives himself/herself.

"So, we are all supposed to lose all our self-esteem but presuming we all are "nothing" and therefore do not even exist?"

"Forget doctrines of sexual-attire modesty. Only Jesus Christ and Him crucified matters, and we should only look to Him, "keep our eyes on Him," "think on things above not on things on Earth" -- without being distracted by indecent loose-long-haired/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless pseudo-"christian" exhibitionists . . . . shoving their non-solicited and defiling immodestly-impure porno-licentiousness into our faces, and forcing us to turn away in self-imposed blindness so as to become an illegal public safety hazards against ourselves and others."

Galatians 2:16 ... a man/woman is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

"Maybe what Paul meant was that atonement for past sins is never acquired nor maintained by us haphazardly and sometimes doing works of the law, nor does the rules-book law itself ever atone for anyone's past sins of disobeying the law or parts of it now and then. Maybe only the redemptive shed blood of Christ Jesus atones for sins, along with us believing and not pooh-poohing that gospel -- IF we really DO believe it (and not mis-consider it a childish fairy-tale without any basis for us "gentiles" not hampered nor burdened down by a history of bloody animals-wasting Jewish sacrifices in the Old Testament)."