Do Southern Baptists look down on women?

Question

I understand this is such a generalized question and I'm sorry for that, but I don't know how else to phrase it. I had a Southern Baptist preacher tell me that it wouldn't matter if I was Baptized because I was female and therefore the root of all that was evil and all women would burn in hell.
I would like to believe this was a single sick individual, but I know the congregation heard and not one person around challenged his statement. I was about 5 years old.
I mean no offence by my question, simply looking for validation that it was the person and not the whole.

I do appreciate everyone’s replies. I simply want to stress that I am not trying to belittle anyone’s beliefs nor am I trying to be hateful in any way. And again I understand it is such a generalized question.
I can not say that for a long time I didn’t judge the whole from this experience but looking back I’m trying to make peace with the whole ordeal. Keep in mind as a very young child this was extremely traumatic to in essence be told that the Creator would never accept me. Of course I learned differently later.
One of the response said they found it hard to believe, well as an adult looking back I too find it hard to believe that a person of such ignorance and misogynistic views would be allowed to continue “serving” any congregation. And yes we did leave that church, in fact I never stepped foot in there (that particular building) after that.

Answer 1

Good grief. It's people like that who give the rest of us bad names....

No, honey, you're not going to Hell just because you're female. Not your fault, either, that Eve couldn't keep her mouth shut.

Trust God's Word. He likes women just fine - He chose one to bear His Son, didn't He?

We have our place in the Kingdom, don't get me wrong, but Hell ain't it...

Answer 2

A Southern Baptist telling you that it doesnt matter if youre saved, baptised and all that - and all women would go to hell?

I will assume that you are not making this up - and that being the case, I can tell you that that particular preacher was a rogue pastor with his own twisted ideas. Southern Baptist Preachers do not believe "ALL" women will burn in hell. That sounds like something the Muslim Muhammad would say and did say (according to the hadiths).

I am not Southern Baptists - and am not trinity period - but even so, I know Southern Baptists pastors and they do not preach that far off the wall.

Again - that was just one preacher who lost touch with his head. And I suppose there are others but does not reflect the heart of Southern Baptist Ministers,

Answer 3

He is wrong.
The "love of money" is the root of evil.

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Whoever that preacher was should not be in the pulpit.
and the congregation is just as much to blame as he is because of their silence. (someone should have challenged him)
Baptists do not believe what you have just stated.
They believe that women and men are equal in the sight of God
(as do all believing informed christians)
but each have their own place to fulfill Gods plans for humanity.

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Study the bible and then find a good God fearing congregation to be with.
The bible says that in the last days, there would be wolves in sheeps clothing (unbelieving preacher/teachers) that would lead the flock (the congregation) astray.
It looks as if that particular congregation has allowed itself to be deceived.

Matthew 7:15-16
15"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

1 Peter 5:7-9 (New King James Version)
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because[a] your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

Don't falter in your faith because some have chosen the wide path that leads to destruction.

Answer 4

I'm not southern baptist, but I know that what you are saying is not at all what the southern baptist church teaches. That preacher should've been tossed out by the deacons. I hope the congregation was asleep explaining why nothing was done.

maybe he was talking about that point of veiw and you may have had selective hearing that only caught on to that saying.

Or he is a sick individual.

Answer 5

I take it you've left your church-and for good reason. I am a southern baptist, and women excel the men in my church in some areas, as do men the women in others. When I first joined the church, I learned more from the women than from the men. You can safely believe that was a sick individual, but not the only one, unfortunately.

Answer 6

I say this as a Southern Baptist Christian.... That guy was an idiot! (Idiot is not a word I use lightly) Women are not the root of all evil. Yeah I'll give you that a woman was the first to sin, but Satan is the father of evil.

Answer 7

This is not Southern Baptist doctrine, and the man is not Southern Baptist even if he claims to be, in fact he is a nut not a preacher.

Answer 8

I don't know about southern baptist but I can tell you that I have been a Christian for 17 years and I have never met another Christian man that would look down on his wife. The Bible teaches quite the opposite indeed! We are to adore and lay down our lives for our wife.
Please don't stero type, there are bad eggs in every basket. But most of the eggs are good.

Answer 9

I'm not a Southern Baptist (I'm a very northern Baptist (Canada)) but that was definitly 1 moron and in no way a Biblical opinion.

Answer 10

the two faiths finally have faith interior a similar issues. they're the two Christian. the two faiths renowned salvation by way of Christ's crucifixion, the two faiths have faith in an all-powerful god. Now the two disagree on the greater superficial components of religion. maximum heavily, baptists take the Bible via fact the literal and unquestionable word of God. They study it therefor, that's actual. Catholics study the Bible as many times a metaphor, something that desires to be interpreted. to no longer numerous from fixing a riddle. This distinction in interpretation ends up in lots of diffused changes. Transubstantiation, by way of St. Thomas Aquinas' reason, is a mixture of theological interpretation and Aristotelian good judgment. Baptists reject transubstantiation, via fact it extremely is no longer, word for word, interior the Bible. this thought is a variety between the two faiths and on their disagreements. additionally worth of no longer, to boot he infinite extremely diffused changes, their is a extensive distinction between religious tone amoung the two faiths. As i'm valuable you are able to tell merely from the responces, Catholics look much less confrontational, jointly as the Baptists look greater agressive. This stands to reason that a faith that's based of absolutes would be a splash greater fanatical and much less accepting of changes. jointly as maximum of Catholicism slightly recognizes the smaller Protesant denominations. in reality, maximum Europeans have by no skill heard of a prominent Baptist. So thats extremely the conflict in a simplistic nut shell. i could additionally prefer to be conscious that the Catholic Church has an extremely valuable dating with Anglicans, Lutherans, and the jap Orthodox faiths. interesting to be conscious, none of those faiths take the Bible actually eather. a number of those faiths have their disagreements, despite the fact that if that's in lots of cases greater theological and much less fanatical, interior the well-liked era besides. As a Catholic, I might desire to assert that no faith is thoroughly top or thoroughly incorrect. and that i think of that's immportant and morally top to admire the Baptist faith, look at their ideals and honor its finer factors jointly as rejecting is worse characteristics. i extremely wish all faiths ought to respectfully disagree, yet they cant.