Posted by Farmer on April 17, 2011 at 14:56:20
for "free" on you-tube...thought I'd post it (as long as it can be viewed there) along with some scriptures...the take Paul had regarding widows...surprisingly it's quite similar to the Indian attitude...even if things are somewhat changing there in India...I once posted here something along the line before ... about the movie Baabul, but it disappeared from what I gather as movie with subtitles from youtube...
...anyway I recently watched this very nice movie (IMO only!!!...it kind of flopped at the box-office)...in really lower quality, subtitles often missing, but I enjoyed it for being funny and emotionally deep at the same time...I am not sure whether any of you has 2 hours spare time, may be only for people of this taste...but the upload is of superb quality and the subtitles much better then my faulty DVD copy at home...you could ...as you probably know anyway, open the function of the subtitles right beside the flag...very neat function...I also copied the words of a song I liked...the location is in Kerela...some place I actually missed in my staying in India...one thing I like also about the movie..it has actors I very much appreciated in other movies
In any event it displays young generation love and also "oldies" finding their (old) love...the old widower then gets quite some heavy flak for the thought of marrying again...something pretty ancient for western thought...but to some degree quite along the line of what Paul thought
It has IMO a lot to do with loyality in general
Of course the Sati-custom is really totally off the mark:
(practice)
1Ti 5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
1Ti 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
1Ti 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
1Ti 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
1Cr 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1Cr 7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
1Cr 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1Cr 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.