Feminism and the Bible?
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you want me to take seriously a website that says "beware the feminists, many are lesbians"??? How offensive.  Your fiction teacher is more a fem-nazi.  Being a feminist just means standing up for equal rights.  Chill.
554613
You are exactly right.And that is what the bible teaches.Man is to be the leader of the household and his decisions should stand firm.The wife should be silent in the home and in the church.Of course this view will reap criticism from the new world order,but society changes and not the words of the bible
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1. Yes and No. The Bible (if read in the origional languages) has so much more meaning that any English translations - so much so that it can make the Bible very confusing to us today.  Additionally, the Bible wasn't written to speak to you and me. It was written to speak to the people of the Biblical world with completely different cultures and values.  Again, when you map Biblical stories and ideology on their paradigm, again, it makes much more sense.\n\nThe most important thing to take out of the Bible - whether figurative or literal - is the overriding message that God loves each of us and desired a personal relationship.\n\n2. No. I do not think we will see another prophet ever.  There are people with prophetic giftings, but Jesus was sent to a world full of prophets.  Today we have a completely different frame of mind and do not need "prophets" to speak God's word to us.  With a personal relationship with Him, prophets really become unnecessary.
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Why in the world would a woman need a different bible than a man???
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Amongst the problems and logics included in feminism, is the neglect of Godly and natural structure and organization.\n\nFeminists undermind the foresight of Christ. Christ new what He was doing when he ordained the man as the provider, and the woman as the nurturer, and homemaker. His wisdom is confirmed by nature. By nature, a man's body is designed for labour, and a woman's is designed for child bearing and nourishment.\n\nWhen women attempt to both preserve their feminine nature, and mimic the men's masculine nature, it obviously causes confusion, competition, and great imbalance in the home, and society. It is a selfishness to have their own honour, and attempt to steal men's. It's also an arrogant attempt to correct both God and nature. As if God was wrong when he designed Adam and Eve. As if nature is wrong for giving the man the body for manual labour, and women the body for child bearing and nursing.
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The truth is no one really knows if God is a woman or a man. In the bible it does refer to God as He. However, one must realize that the bible was written by men. They brought their patriarchal views to the table and put them in the book. Men are fragile creatures who are afraid of what they don't understand. There was no way a that those men who wrote the bible would have actually admitted that God was a woman even if they knew different because they would loose that power over their wives and slaves.
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Yes I also like Paula White as well. \n\nWhere is the verse about the female preachers old or new testament?.... Just curious\n \nYou know a teacher is kind of like a preacher and alot of Christian schools have female teachers, and churches have female sunday school teachers would that mean only males could run the church and Christian schools?\nWhat if there husbands are preachers as well does that somehow compensate for it... just a thought. \n\nWomen seem to be in touch with their spiritual side can't they use that knoledge to help others?\n\nActs 10:34 tells us that God is no respecter of persons. That means that anyone, (yes, anyone) can be used by God as long as they yield themselves to His will.
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Yes!!!  When the Bible talks about women not wearing men's clothing, the original text is actually refering to men's under garments.  \n\nIf in doubt, look in the mirror.  Do you look feminine and pretty?  Do you look like a "lady"?  God wants us to have freedom, but I don't think a Christian woman should look "butch".  This is my personal opinion though.
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I agree with your statement.\n\nHow can women follow a religion that treats them like objects, servants and unequals.. for those that don't believe, check out these bible quotes -\n\nhttp://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/bible_female.html
873563
Women should not be preachers.  The men should lead the congregation, the bible says men shall lead the family.  They should be leading the church family as well.
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That's actually a really interesting question, and I'm afraid I don't have much time to fully answer it, but I'll give you a basic overview.\n\n\nBack when all the texts were compiled and what should (or not) be included in the New and Old Testaments was decided, some of the texts were left out.\nWhile some were fully censored and destroyed (for example, the newly discovered "Gospel of Judas"), others were simply censored or adapted.\nThe existence of Nephilim was one of those situations, where the scriptures were slightly censored and therefore some rare references to generally unknown things can be read in there. Never heard of Lilith? That's another example of a removed text.\n\nWhile in the link I'll provide below there is some information about your subject, you could also try to read the "Dead Sea Scrolls" or "Apocrypha", as they have some of the texts that were cut out and (perhaps) provide more information on Nephilim.
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What part of the bible wasn't written by men?
633387
Interesting, that is what you call "keeping the scripture in context." See, I have asked allot of questions about why Paul said woman must "be silent, an are not allowed to teach or have authority over man."\n\n1 Cor 11:6-7,1 Cor 14:34,1 Tim 2:12\n\nAnd I got answers telling me I am taking it out of context, strangely, when the same question gets asked about gays, they quickly condemn gays to hell without looking at the "context" of the phrase or scripture. It seems you can justify any kind of in-tolerance with the bible when you take it "out of context". \n\nPersonally i think the book is full of hypocrisy and bias, but that is just me...
873737
Okay, I've been in a lot of denominations so I feel I can answer this from seeing several different viewpoints.\nI'm the daughter of a hellfire and brimstone preacher, and I've attended churches ranging from totally liberal to very conservative. I've also, <GASP!> actually PREACHED a sermon one time.\n\nLet's take into acount that the verse was written in a time when women and men were segregated in the church. This was a time period when women were not allowed to attend school. So, could you imagine how shocking it would be if a woman were to try to tell a man what to do? Also, when you look at the "let the women keep silence in the church" could you imagine what would happen if the wife hollered over to her husband, "hey, Hubert, what did the preacher mean by that comment." It sure would be disruptive.\n\nI firmly believe that God gives each of us gifts and talents, and if God gives a woman the gift of ministry, and preaching, it's God's choice.
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If I give you that the bible does seem to indicate that homosexuality is NOT a preferred activity for men (although women are never mentioned in this  context)...\n\nCan you give me the fact it is not one of the 10 commandments and thus not one of the mortal sins and thus is a venial (lesser) sin.\n\nAND the fact that we accept and seemingly encourage intentional violation of the mortal sins and the 10 Commandments.\n\nIn the sake of time, I will just point out two...\n\n5th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill.\n- WE still sentence criminals to death & send soldiers to kill innocents\n\n10th Commandment: Thou Shalt not Covet thy Neighbor's Property.\n- Do we not encourage avarice and envy through fashion, fads, marketing, and waste?\n\nThe issue is, Humans are flawed, we kill, steal, have greed, sloth, and much, much more. \n\nAs long as you hold 100% true to your beliefs, and REFUSE to support leaders who send troops to kill, encourage greed, do not believe in charity, encourage us to shop to fight terrorists, et al, then I will back you 100% in any argument you make supporting the teachings of the bible. \n\nI have complete respect for an enlightened person willing to not be selective in THEIR views as well and not spout a "socially acceptable opinion that is void of godliness"
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They will never be out of date insofar as they are still relevant today.  The rest of the Bible speaks about other sins but in different ways.  The Book of Leviticus takes the commandments and explains more in depth what each one means and what God wants for our lives.  In some ways though, I think we do need an updated set so that people will have no way to question what God wants.  You must look to the Greek text to find out about recreational drugs, you need better language to tell people that homosexuality is wrong, they don't understand the man lying with another man, as a woman idea or that it is an abomination, or that living together is not right.  You can go on forever trying to update those Ten Commandments, but, ultimately, all the answers are already in the Bible.  You just have to search for them and obey them.  God doesn't want His Word turned into a lie, as is being done in today's society.
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I'm Christian. Women are viewed in a better light, and liberalism is more acceptable (we don't ALL have to believe everything in the Bible literally).