Ephesians

Paul's epistle to the Ephesians is a letter that Paul of Tarsus supposedly wrote to those in the Christian church at Ephesus.

Themes

 * Paul takes ten verses to say that Jesus died so that you could live in Heaven and do good works.
 * There exists no distinction between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians.
 * There is to be a clearly defined hierarchy in the household involving neither utter dominance nor egalitarianism, but rather an echo of that between Christ and the Church. Husbands are to lovingly preside over wives, parents over children, and masters over slaves.

Commonly cited passages

 * is some tripe about "the Armor of God"; the passage uses a suit of armor as a metaphor for virtues and spiritual warfare.
 * One verse in this passage can be interpreted to discourage warfare or activism in the name of Christ: 


 * The passage that tells wives to submit to husbands is used to justify things ranging from gender roles to wife beating.