The Bible says "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" .
So what about women? If "men" was meant to be a term encompasing both sexes - - why does it not say forgive unto humanity? Or forgiven unto all beings?
2006-09-01 10:56:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The entire bible needs to be read metaphorically and remembering that it is all gender biased.
First, the gender bias. The bible is an interpertation of spiritual events recorded and edited by MEN. Naturally they did it from a male perspective. It is unfortunate that few of the books of the bible were written bhy women.
Now, metaphor: lets look at your quote. All is forgiven except blasphemy against the holy spirit. Two key concepts here: blasphemy and holy spirit. Lets simply define blasphemy as disrespect.
A key belief of mine is that the Holy Spirit resides in each of us and is part of each of us. To disrespect the Holy Spirit is to disrespect myself. THAT is not acceptable.
2006-09-01 11:02:58 · answer #1 · answered by Chuck N 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
During those times women were rarely mentioned - when something like this was stated it was meant for the entire family. The words beings and humanity were not even in their vocabulary. Times change, but the underlying truths of the Word remain the same generation after generation.
2006-09-01 18:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by heartforhelping 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word men is used in scripture to denote all humanity. Another example: all humanity that is born of a woman are sinners except one and that is the Lord Jesus Christ who was conceived by the Holy Ghost. Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: As for the question on blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, it does not apply to you. The Lord Jesus Christ was dealing with the Nation of Israel. The only thing that will send you to hell is for you to reject what the Lord Jesus Christ did for you on the cross. He died for your sins, He was buried and took your sins away and He rose again for your justification. Believe and trust in that and you can spend eternity in heaven. 1 Corinthians 15: 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Corinthians 15: 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
2006-09-01 18:13:31 · answer #3 · answered by Ray W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it does mean for both sexes. I think the reason why it doesn't say forgive unto humanity is because hebrew is such are hard language to translate. It could have meant that, but there's so many meanings for one word that is translated into english from hebrew.
2006-09-01 18:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by bellaangel83118 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is just a cheap man-made fantasy story in bad taste, and not meant to be taken seriously.
God and the Bible are both fakes. There is not one single matter discussed in the Bible out of the many thousands of issues raised that has been proven true, yet many matters have been proven false. You don’t really need to be a rocket scientist to deduce with practically 100% certainty that God and the Bible are fake.
The Bible is trash. The Bible is the biggest load of garbage and codswallop ever written by man, and I’m sure it will go down in history as the greatest load of gobbledygook ever to inflict such traumatic mental and physical damage on humanity, but still today, some people sadly believe the Bible to be true. That’s very sad indeed. Very sad.
2006-09-01 17:59:47 · answer #5 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
When Niel Armstrong said "one small step for man one giant leap for mankind" did he mean women couldn't go into space?... Of course not! Many people (or should I say huMany people) use the word "man" as an all encompassing term for humanity the Bible is no exception.
2006-09-01 18:06:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that is not what the holy spirit told the writers to write!
Why would you think you know how the bible should be written. That is a little ridiculous isn't it.
2006-09-01 18:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by Rhonda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be very young. Why are you reading a King James Bible. There are many modern English translations available free online. At Biblegateway.com and IBS.org.
Those of us who are over 30 know that "man" and "Mankind" were generic terms for human beings.
2006-09-01 18:01:18 · answer #8 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look at Gensis 5:2, God called them "Mankind" in the New King James and "Adam" in the King James and "Man" in the Revised Standard Standard Bibles. It is for both sexes.
2006-09-01 18:03:30 · answer #9 · answered by Birdbrain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to look at the original greek text of the word men in this verse, such as in an exhaustive concordance. It is a translation issue...when translated into english the word men was used as at the time it commonly referred to all humans...not just males. The original greek is below and means human.
Anthropos 1:364,59
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
anth'-ro-pos Noun Masculine
Definition
a human being, whether male or female
generically, to include all human individuals
to distinguish man from beings of a different order
of animals and plants
of from God and Christ
of the angels
with the added notion of weakness, by which man is led into a mistake or prompted to sin
with the adjunct notion of contempt or disdainful pity
with reference to two fold nature of man, body and soul
with reference to the two fold nature of man, the corrupt and the truly Christian man, conformed to the nature of God
with reference to sex, a male
indefinitely, someone, a man, one
in the plural, people
joined with other words, merchantman
2006-09-01 18:06:59 · answer #10 · answered by pknutson_sws 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋