Who is your favorite woman in the bible?  Why?  Mine is Ruth...
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I would say Hannah. She lived during a time of spiritual drought. Eli the priest was lazy and his two sons were Hophni and Phineas were corrupt. Hannah longed for a son but the Lord closed her womb. Her husband, Elkanah wasn't very supportive but he gave her the better portions of his gifts. He had another wife Peninnah, who provoked her sorely, I mean, she really rubbed it in Hannah's face the fact that she could not bear children. I bet she was horrible to live with. But Hannah had heart, she cried out to God and asked the Lord to give her a son so that he would serve the Lord all the days of his life.  She would raise him as a Nazarite, separated for the purpose of God alone. She would give her son back to God because she knew Israel needed a true leader after God's heart and mind. When she had Samuel, she kept her word and lent him to the Lord all the days of his life. Because of Hannah's prayer, Israel had a faithful priest to the Lord who was steadfast  in his allegiance to God and devotion to His will and ways. Her prayers of anguish produced a mighty man of God's heart and mind. Now, that's my kind of woman to emulate!
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I don't know who the man and woman are this passage is referring to, but it is always wrong to take another man's wife....When King David in the bible took Uriah's wife (batheseba), God punished King David by killing their baby.
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I was not sure so I check a Bible scholar named Matthew Henry and he said "Miriam was struck with a leprosy, but not Aaron, because she was first in the transgression, and God would put a difference between those that mislead and those that are misled." I am still pondering the question but hopefully this will give you something to think about.
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Eve, Deborah, Rebecca, Sarah, Ruth, Bathsheba, Abagail, Zipora, Jezebell, Mary, Mary magdalene, The woman who was the head of the church of Ephesus. \nThese are all key people in the Bible and in Christianity.\n\nGod often uses male figures to characterize certain aspects of Christianity because for example his relationship Jesus most closely resembles a father/son relationship.  \nHis relationship to us is charactaristic to a Father/Child relationship etc.\nLucifer before he was satan was the equivilant of one of God's generals.  No way could the reader relate to a female general, Especially in ancient times.  \nSatan is a spirit, and is therefore not truly male of female anatomically, but in character is male.\n\nHope that helps.
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against nature, contrary to nature\nI don't know what God thought but the story of Ruth & Naomoi\nRuth 1:14 Ruth clave onto her, same as Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh
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Mary, duh.\n\n\n...I'd like my 10 points now.
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The Lost Chapter of Genesis\n \nAdam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely. \n\nSo God asked him, "What's wrong with you?" \n\nAdam said he didn't have anyone to talk to. \n\nGod said that He was going to make Adam a companion and that it would be a woman. \nHe said, "This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will cook for you, and when you discover clothing, she will wash it for you. \n"She will always agree with every decision you make and she will not nag you and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. She will praise you!  "She will bear your children and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them. \n"She will never have a headache and will freely give you love and passion whenever you need it." \n\nAdam asked God, "What will a woman like this cost?" \n\nGod replied, "An arm and a leg." \n\nSo Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?" \n\nThe rest is history....
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i would say gia..or who knows this can go way back to bible times..cleopatra
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Have you noticed anything about what you just said? Did you notice in your reading that God created Woman Twice, once in Genesis 1:27, and then AGAIN in 2:22...Just read the whole thing if you need to...Dont let anyone tell you to not ask questions.
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I would say that 3 of my favorites are Shadrach, Meshach and \nAbed-Nego. At that time Nebuchadnezzar was not only the King of Babylon but the ruler of the known world. He was also a little bit off mentally and had a tendency to go into a rage if he didn't get his way. Everyone was terrified of him. But these 3 young men were trusting in their God, the God of the universe, the creator of heaven and earth. They had no fear of him because they knew that he was but a speck of dust compared to their God. He built a golden image and demanded that everyone worship it. But to do that would be idolatry which the 3 young isrealites would not do under any circumstances and no threats could make them. So they refused. Daniel 3:13-30 gives the rest of the story.\n\n13  Then Nebuchadnezzar, in rage and fury, gave the command to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego. So they brought these men before the king.\n14  Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up?\n15  "Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?"\n16  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.\n17  "If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.\n18  "But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."\n19 ¶  Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.\n20  And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.\n21  Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.\n22  Therefore, because the king’s command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego.\n23  And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.\n24  Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king."\n25  "Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."\n26  Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here." Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego came from the midst of the fire.\n27  And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.\n28 ¶  Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god exce
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The Word of God is the only TRUTH in this messed up world. It does not tell me that He was married to her,so I choose to believe the Bible and I am blessed because of it. He came to die ,to be our redeemer. That is the only reason. He did not come to get married and have a family. He did what He came to do and I am so glad. I am the redeemed and I will someday be there with Him because I choose to believe the TRUTH which is Jesus Christ. The only TRUTH. It is only a lie from the enemy saying that He was married to a woman that had demons. They don't know that Jesus is Holy and everything has to be holy for Him. We will not be judged on knowing what the holy grail is, we will be judged on [if we know Jesus or not in our heart] if we gave Him our life or selfishly kept it for ourself to waste.
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I understand what you're trying to say to us protestants.I want you to know, as a protestant I do not put her(Mary) on a shelf, and only bring her down at the celebration of His birth,(Xmas), and His death on the cross(Easter).After all my protestant prayers, I thank Her for saying "yes" to God, and bearing a savior for the world.I thank her for rearing him, loving him, molding him for his ministry. Jesus loved her, shes His mother , so How can I help but love Her. I am a mother of Sons too. When I watch the passion of Christ, I cry, for my savior, for Her, for the heartbreak I share with her. Do I love Jesus?.......YES,  do I love His Mother?..........YES.   Does Jesus love me?.........YES.
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My fiance's favortite answer to this question is that God left out lesbians in the Bible because "even God knows two women getting it on is HOT!"\n\nKeep smiling :)
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My absolute favorite story in Genesis is the story of Joseph, where his brothers sell him into slavery and he ends up becoming the top person in Egypt right underneath Pharaoh.  The best part of the story is when his brothers come to Egypt to get food for their family, and Joseph ends up telling them who he is and that he forgives them of everything that they did to him.  It takes a strong man of God to do something like that.  I admire him for that.
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Becky Hammon... and new york liberty, cuz i am very attracted to her she is laid back the type of women im into ;)
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That's nothing compared to the story of Bathsheba. He thought she was beautiful, so he wanted her for his wife. Alas, she was married to one of David's loyal soldiers, so David arranged for Uriah to be sent to the frontlines of a battle, where he was killed. Then he took Bathsheba as his own. She, of course, had no say in the matter. This sort of wonton cruelty was very typical of David, yet he is called a man of God and was always one of God's favorites--indeed, Jesus Christ is proudly proclaimed to be descended from this murderer! Throughout the O.T., God favors those who are crafty, cruel, and devious, and David fits the bill on every point.
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""SHE DIDN'T SIN, she was born without sin so she could give birth to Jesus. Besides, wouldn't you (maybe not you exactly)love it if everyone worshipped your mother.""\n\nAin't it always something!?  A good christian girl with the number 69 in her name!  Just what I have always come to expect for them.\n\nBTW... 69 chick?  Mary was born without sin?  then that would make HER the Christ and not Jesus!  HER parents had sex to conceive her!!  I hope you feel liek a dumb@$$ right now since the PAGAN chick had to straighten you out on your biblical "facts".