Religion & Sexism – President Carter Takes A Stand #Compassion

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Your point on women and the bible…..The bias towards men is a cultural norm prevelant thousands of years ago. At the time woman’s voices were not admissable in court etc….
What is radical is that by Jesus’ time HE broke all kinds of cultural norms by hanging out with not only women, but prostitutes, not only prostitutes but prostitutes from enemy camps. Samaratians were half breed dogs to the Jews and Jesus has a recorded (to make the point) of conversations with them. Not to mention average gals off the street.
Paul in his writings about how the church should function with people that have decided to have JC pay for their offensives against humanity talks that there is no difference between men and women in the church, Paul talks about Phoebe who was a woman and a church leader in Cenchreae. Paul also directs Timothy to hold the gals in leadership to the same standard as the men. VERY radical words in the first century.
The whole submittance thing is such a overblown misread. Because the charge to the men just before was that the man should lay down his life for his gal, like JC laid down his life for the church. How many men do you know that actually live like this!!! IF they did I don’t believe there is a gal living that wouldn’t want to follow a guy like that. Problem is that most men are vacating their role as servant to a role as dictator or video gamer. That is not supported in Paul’s writings. Peter writes lead your wife by way of understanding. Understanding your wife, listening, asking question, input, engage her because she is valuable etc.
But this all hinges on believing that JC has saving power to do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, namely be good enough in God’s eyes. With the humility to ask JC to cover us for our offensives to God’s creation (read here men, women, nature) there is no basis really on doing any of this. Which leads to a fall back position called cultural norms which are heavily male biased as you stated earlier.
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This is good stuff Fritz. I used to do martial counseling with deeply religious couples. It was always interesting to see how males interpreted certain passages in the bible differently from men. I felt that men selectively read the passages that gave them power and authority. It never felt equal.