Why do women choose to be Christian?

Question

Christian women, do you believe what the Bible says about men being the rightful leaders, owning their wives, and having the right to beat them? Do you believe women are the cause of original sin and need a man to lead them to God?

If so, how do you justify loving a God who thinks you so worthless? Or is it not love but the fear of hell that drives you?

If not, doesn't it make you question other parts of the Bible? You're 50% of the population - why is it you don't you stand up and change the Bible if you think it is a lie?

I apologize for wording my question so agressively to draw your attention. Thank you all for enlightening me, particularly those who could do it without being rude or insulting. It sounds like many branches of Christianity do interpret the Bible differently and emphasize portions of it that talk about men and women as equals.

I can verify that there are Christian groups that do believe the things I have mentioned here. I have heard men spouting exactly these statements on Christian talk radio in Washington and Oregon state, and backing it up with their own quotes from the Bible. I also recently met an ex-Christian online who was abused by her husband, and told that God gave him this right.

Answer 1

Only some women are foolish enough to believe any of this. Come to the Episcopal Church, we have women priest, women Bishops, and even gays. We do not follow the culture of 2000 years ago, and any rational thinking Christian would not take the bible that literally. The Episcopal Church says: "Jesus came to take your sins, not your mind".

Answer 2

In all your worrying about the minutiae of Christianity, you are neglecting its basic question, and its basic answer.

The question is "What must I do to be saved?"

The answer is "give up everything, and follow me (Jesus.)"

This is the same Jesus who told Martha that Mary had taken the better part for studying with him, while Martha worked away at traditional woman things. Jesus had recognized Mary as a person - not as a person in a gender role.

This is the savior who says, "Follow me", and says it to all, men, women, children. All the rest is detail.

You can imagine then that there are not a few women who find this saviour - Martha's and Mary's - an appealing saviour.

Did you know in the middle ages, the convent was liberation? Women were otherwise expected to become mothers and property. But in a convent they could become something different - servants to one another, servants to God, students, teachers, healers.... Nuns, frankly, were the first feminists.

No - quite the contrary - Christianity has a lot to offer women, not the least of which is a saviour who accepts them as his sisters, and whom he will speak for before God.

Answer 3

first of all.. woman was taken from mans side...to stand by his side. not from his feet to wait on him hand and feet.

I don't know what bible you were looking at...but the one I'm reading clearly states things about adultery/honoring thy mother and father/ ext.

If the God did not look at women equally...then why would he say honor thy mother...wouldn't he had said. Honor thy father only?


Adultery goes both ways honey...did you know that both the women and men were stoned to death from cheating on their wife or husband back then?

You need to read the bible over or seek help...because you've got it all wrong. You must have been a christian woman w/ a bad experience or was just taught the wrong things..or probably something you've seen from a friend of yours..they choose to stay in those relationships...God does not require them too.

Answer 4

You are totally ignorant. There is no Christian directive that says men have the right to beat their wives. Your interpretation is worthless. You are not a credible voice for anyone to listen to. Nowhere in the New or Old Testament for that matter does it say anything about what you are slobbering out. I wonder if Christians have any idea of the garbage they are reading on R&S and what little puny human being are vomiting it out?

Answer 5

The Bible does not say a man "owns" his wife. sorry your assertion is wrong. I'm a christian wife and my husband is mostly loving and kind to me. We are both considered equal in God's kingdom, just with different roles. If you read Ephesians it says that a husband and wife should submit to EACH OTHER in love.
The cause of original sin was brought on by temptation by satan and his lie to Eve who then tempted Adam. The law of God was not given to Eve, but to Adam and he was considered in leadership in their relationship. Adam told Eve what God had said only tweaked it a bit. God said do not eat of the fruit. Adam said do not eat of the fruit and don't even touch it. A slight difference but again....considering Adam was not fooled into eating the forbidden fruit...one can surmise that Adam died for Eve, prefering to die with her than to live apart from her. That is love.

Answer 6

Why don't you just leave Yahoo Answers if you hate it as you say in your profile? You can live your atheist life in peace and quiet.
I suggest you do some more research on religious matters. So you won't make the mistake of confusing Islam and Christianity.

Answer 7

actually, the Bible demands men to respect their wives and children. The Bible also portrays many women as saints, like Ruth, Mary, etc. And you cant change a Bible legitimately.

Answer 8

God gives great value to women as recorded in Scripture...and places great value in their dignity and honor:

Deborah was a judge raised up by God to lead in a time of great distress for Israel.

Mary was chosen to bear God's own Son! What an honor.to be the one to bring God's own Son into the world!

Esther was used by God to save the entire nation of Israel from destruction !.

Read the the ENTIRE Scriptures....instead of quoting one reference out of context to support your ignorance and bias against the bible.

Intelligent people understand what the Scriptures really say. Fools try to make one verse support thier own foolish agenda.

If you want to talk about how women are treated I suggest you complain about Islam's obvious brutal treatment of women and children.

Answer 9

You are grossly deceived whether you choose to be so or just are ignorant to the word of God I don't know.The word of God tells us that the man is to love his wife as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.So ought men to love their wife's as their own bodies.he that loveth his wife loveth himself.For we are members of Christ,of His flesh and bone.For this cause is the man to leave all else and cling to his wife,and they shall be one flesh.Eph. 5:25-33. Also , "There is neither Jew nor Greek , there is neither male nor female : for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28. Wouldn't it be nice if atheist were as honest as they want Christians to be ? SMILE

Answer 10

Because they havent discovered Islam

The modern Jordanian theologian Hasan al-Saqqaf emphasises the point that Muslim theology has consistently made down the ages: God is not gendered, really or metaphorically. The Quran continues Biblical assumptions on many levels, but here there is a striking discontinuity. The imaging of God has been shifted into a new and bipolar register, that of the Ninety-Nine Names. Muslim women who have reflected on the gender issue have seized, I think with good reason, on this striking point. For instance, one Muslim woman writer, Sartaz Aziz, writes:

I am deeply grateful that my first ideas of God were formed by Islam because I was

able to think of the Highest Power as one completely without sex or race, and thus

completely unpatriarchal . . . We begin with the idea of a deity who is completely

above sexual identity, and thus completely outside the value system created by patriarchy.


This passage is cited by the modern Catholic writer Maura O'Neill, who writes on women's issues in dialogue, and who rightly concludes: 'Muslims do not use a masculine God as either a conscious or unconscious tool in the construction of gender roles.'