Do you think Christianity and the Bible as a whole devalues women?

Question

I've heard many things about the Koran devaluing women, and we don't have to look hard to see that. (they can't even show their faces) but do you think christianity also devalues women? if so, please give an example. if not, try to give an example also.

well there was Mary Magdalene, she wrote a gospel and it was in the new testament for a while but was removed. none of that da vinci BS though.

putting someone on a pedestal IS devaluing that person. if you don't think so, you've got it all wrong.

Answer 1

True Christianity and the Bible honor women but that is not the
case with many so called Christian Churches

Answer 2

People devalue people. The Bible holds women in high respect. The Greeks and many other ancient peoples devalued women, thus creating a culture that devalued women.

I have included a link to a book which studies the Biblical role of women, and explains how modern culture is not Biblical in terms of how we treat women and men.

Rocking the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage
by Robert Lewis, William Hendricks

Answer 3

Islam doesn't devalue women, nor does Christianity devalue women. The person by itself is the only one who devalues the self. Read the Bible again, a lot of great women are mentioned there, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Ruth, Ester, Elizabeth,.. Men or women, each has their own worth, their own character. Each may make choices and decisions that cause a turn of events.

As to how they dress, i guess it's part of tradition.

Answer 4

The instruction of God to husbands to love their wives as Christ loves The Church.... to understand how Christ loves TheChurch would take an indepth study.... but that puts women in a very good position.... The teaching of Christ is Love.... in that alone women and men can not devalue each other.

I will not deny that many have misused The Bible to place women in inferior positions.... but understanding of The Truth puts the greater burden on the male than on the female.

If you have questions concerning the basics of The True Christian Faith you may email me... one honest question receives one honest answer to the best of my ability.

Answer 5

i think it gives men and women a different place in society which made sense for the time they were living in. i wouldn't say it especially devalues women because i could find just as many verses that devalue men that nobody seems to care about. most of the devaluation of women does not come from the bible but from then men who interpreted the bible, already believing in female inferiority, and therefore looking for the slightest verses to prove it. they then created laws and customs in order to subjugate women. so you can find all sorts of religious hate literature about women, but most of it is based almost entirely on far-fetched interpretations rather than actual scriptures.

as for female prophets, thats easy... miriam, deborah, hannah, esther... they are all prophetesses and are even named as such in the bible. there is a couple more but i can't name them all.

Answer 6

In both early Jewish culture and pagan cultures women were little more than property. Jesus elevated the dignity of women to heights never seen before, taught that they are equal to men ("in Christ there is neither male nor female"), that they must be respected and valued. In the Church Christ founded, the Catholic Church, women cannot be ordained, and that cannot be changed; but unordained women can do everything unordained men can do - preach, teach, counsel, lead prayer, administrate, distribute the Eucharist, read the scriptures at Mass, etc. In short, everything a Protestant minister does, except baptize, and unordained men cannot do that either, except in emergency situations, in which case woman can likewise baptize. There is no distinction at all, either in the ministries woman can serve in (or lead), or in those who will benefit from those ministries.
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Answer 7

I believe God places equal value on both men and women. Jesus died that ALL might be saved, not just one gender or the other.

Modern Christianity however places far more value on women then it does men. One has only to listen to the messages given on Father's day vs Mother's day to see this. On Mother's day, we would tend to think that all women walk on water and they have halo's and wings. On Father's day, men are told that every evil of society is their fault.

I heard one pastor from Dallas tell men that if they were living away from home, to "suck it in and go back home" I wrote him to remind him that if many of these men did this, their next living arrangements would be jail for violating often bogus court orders.

IF our Church's devalue women as you suggest, I ask, why are there far more women in our churches then there are men?

I would suggest you check out Church for Men and Shattered Men to find answers.

Again however, God values each person and He states that He is not willing for ANY to perish.

Answer 8

At first glance it does seem that women are degraded in the Bible. The truth of the matter is that at the time, men had more value and the nations around the Jewish people treated their women like property.

There is an order in the Bible. Man was created first. Women was made to accompany man and complete him. While this may seem sexist by today's standards, you must first truly understand the roles of Husbands and Wives in God's family arrangement.

It all comes down to headship. There cannot be two bosses in a family.

Biblical Headship is a loving arrangement and is by no means synonymous with tyranny. It was disregard for divinely constituted authority that resulted in man's often brutal domination of women. (Genesis 3:16) Since the garden of Eden, men have frequently abused their power, viciously exploiting others, including women and children.

However, that was never part of God's purpose. God abhors those who abuse their authority. He condemned Israelite men who "dealt treacherously" with their wives. (Malachi 2:13-16) Furthermore, God says that "anyone loving violence, his soul certainly hates." (Psalm 11:5) So wife beaters and abusers cannot in any way use the Bible to justify their violent actions.

Headship is a fundamental arrangement that God uses to maintain universal order. Everyone other than God himself is accountable to someone. Men are subject to Christ, children are subject to their parents, and all Christians are subject to governments. Even Jesus is subject to God. - Romans 13:1; 1Corinthians 11:3, 15:28; Ephesians 6:1.

Subjection to leadership is necessary for an orderly, stable, society. Likewise, subjection to a family head is essential to building a solid, happy, peceful family.

Ephesians 5: 25-29, 33 sums it up beautifully. "Husbands, continue loving YOUR wives, just as the Christ also loved the congregation and delivered up himself for it, that he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the bath of water by means of the word, that he might present the congregation to himself in its splendor, not having a spot or a wrinkle or any of such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

In this way husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself, for no man ever hated his own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it, as the Christ also does the congregation. Nevertheless, also, let each one of YOU individually so love his wife as he does himself; on the other hand, the wife should have deep respect for her husband."

Even though God fearing people may have treated their wives wrong in the Old Testament, Jesus cleared up and removed all doubt about how a husband is to treat his wife. Jesus also said we should have love for one another so we should be treating all women with dignity and respect, not just our wives.

I hope that helps.

Answer 9

Yes, I think Christianity devalues women.

Answer 10

Not at all. There are many very important women in the bible. There was actually a very recent movie called "One Night with the King" that tells the story of Esther. She was born a jew and was orphaned and grew up to marry a king. There's a site that lists even more. http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/women.html Check it out.