Posted on 10/06/2008 3:12:50 PM PDT by RogerFGay
Delilah is dangerous, Jezebel, wicked, and as for Eve... Whether they are temptresses, harlots or simply Old Testament chattels, women (it is often argued) get a raw deal in Scripture, with the odd saintly exception (the virgin Mary).
But new research into Biblical women shows that the majority receive positive or matter-of-fact write-ups. Words such as "blessed", "righteous" "outstanding" and - of course - "beautiful" crop up in descriptions of 60 of the Bible's 175 female characters, according to research from The Bible Society.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
What?
Compared to the Quran, the Bible is a paragon of sex equality.
What is an agreed upon definition of sexist?
They missed our job description...
Proverbs 31: 10 A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
11 Her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.
12 She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.
13 She selects wool and flax
and works with eager hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships,
bringing her food from afar.
15 She gets up while it is still dark;
she provides food for her family
and portions for her servant girls.
16 She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
17 She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.
18 She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.
19 In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
20 She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy.
21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household;
for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
22 She makes coverings for her bed;
she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
and supplies the merchants with sashes.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
26 She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
27 She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
29 “Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all.”
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
31 Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
Deborah. Esther. Rachel. Hannah.
Need I go on?
Bess would be more informed if she were to read the book she seeks to criticize.
Thanks, but I didn’t get my job description from my prospective mother-in-law :-).
Leah, Rahab, Jael, Bathsheba. The Bible is full of complex and multidimensional women - just as it’s full of complex and multidimensional men. If you believe they’re all real people, as I do, why should this be a surprise. Human beings come in all kinds, and few of us are just “good” or just “bad.”
My point was that the article’s writer seems to believe the Bible has nothing positive to say about women.
I understand. I was adding to what I perceived to be your point, rather than disagreeing.
> Bess would be more informed if she were to read the book she seeks to criticize.
AMEN, and her time would be better occupied putting into practise what she read, rather than writing pointy-headed intellectual discourses on subjects about which she knows naught.
And if perchance it can be demonstrated that the Bible is “sexist”, then I suggest such a finding proves that her brand of feminism is an Evil and contrary to God’s wishes. Therefore it follows that pursuing it will ultimately result in her burning in Hell for eternity, along with anybody else dam’nfool enough to be drawn away by her specious arguments.
Bess can therefore litigate her grievance against God: He has very deep pockets and is the highest Court of Appeal in the land.
lol...i’m sure it is to non believers
In the U.K. no less. How did that slip past the censors? Search Google, “police in UK raid hate crime”
Back up a step, is the Bible politically correct? NO WAY. The bible is the definition of Politically Incorrect. That is so true that it kind of redefines Politically correct as.....Satanic doesn’t it.
Correct first response: “Define ‘sexist.’”
Arguments by feminists who seek to attack the God given positional headship of the man (which does not make one necessarily more superior spiritually), especially as regards being authoritative theologians (1 Tim. 2:11-14), are their own worst enemies, as the exegesis they proffer is actually eisegesis, that of reading into the what is not there: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/WOMENPASTORS.html
The article itself manifest such, supposing that the Hebrew word ‘ezer’ (which means ‘helper’) most often connotes superiority, since it is almost always refers to god being one’s help, but that word denotes neither superiority or inferiority, rather it is how it is used in the context that conveys the meaning, as well as how the rest of Scripture defines this relationship.
In so doing, it is the Holy Spirit, not Phyllis Tribble, who authoritatively interprets Gn. 2:18, clearly stating, “Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man” (1 Cor 11:9).
For “the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor 11:3). This positional distinction is one of the clearest doctrines in the Bible, patterned after the Divine order, which we dare not convolute.
Of course, in the face of such lack of support, feminists, like homosexual apologists, must resort to attacking the Divine inspiration of the texts they war against, thereby negating (they suppose) it’s authority over them.
No.
Gal 3:28 there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
True, yet this relates to essential spiritual equality, but which does not negate positional distinctions which the Bible also makes very clear. (The homosexuals would love to use “there is neither male nor female” to negate the Biblical injunctions against man laying with man as with women).
I am amazed at the in-credible, extreme attempts of creative apologetics that seek to negate the clear and explicit teaching of Scripture, that the man is the head of the women, as God is the head of Christ, and as He is of the church And in fact, when it gets to that chapter (1 Cor. 11) it vainly seeks to remove the idea of authority from that Divine order, as well as convolute the rest of it in order to negate what it, and the whole of Scripture, contextually makes obvious. The specious feminist conjecture is just as bad in chapter 14 and 1 Tim. 2, etc.
This is not the place to do a point by point rebuttal of that page, in which every most paragraph wrests the meaning of Biblical text, and only those who love deception would be persuaded by this attempt to distort it. Perhaps I have the time and strength I may attend to it if it seems necesary.
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