Is this right or wrong for women especially in a christian church? I know some churches do this while others do not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Church#Similarities_to_Judaism
2007-01-12 05:55:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.
Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning things like dietary purity and temple worship including people being ritually unclean.
Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.
However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.
Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-14 17:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't listen to their insults. This seems a legitimate question to me as, yes, some churches (like Ethiopian Orthodox) do not allow women to enter church during their periods.
Ethiopian Orthodox are not in communion with the Orthodox Church as a whole and the practice you talk about is extremely rare even where it is practiced -- who's going to check?!
Many mainstream Orthodox churches do, however, have a "rechurching" after a woman has been away for a while to have her baby.
There also happens to be a cannon (or "law") disallowing a priest from entering a city on the back of a donkey or from dancing with his wife. Does this mean these are the core tenants of a faith? No. In MAINSTREAM Eastern Orthodox only a few basic beliefs are really important (see Nicene Creed). After that, it's up to you whether you want to take off your shoes in church.
2007-01-14 09:57:39 · answer #2 · answered by andy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, that is just wrong, I am sorry. Women can't help it if they get it or not, obviously God intended them to get it so that YOU and every other human could be where they are today! It doesn't mean women are unclean. It's perfectly natural. And any church that practices that form of discrimination isn't a church I'd want to be at. Just my opinion, and I understand you just want to know, so sorry if I got a little mad there...but you're a man, you don't understand...
2007-01-12 06:16:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you belong to a cult church or something where you were brainwashed to believe that women are inferior to you? Do you live in Utah in one of those cults where the nasty old men have wives that are 14 years old (which is considered rape)? I think you have some really big issues that you need to get therapy for. Maybe you should think about admitting yourself to an institution before you harm yourself. You know women have been around long before Christianity ever came about. And before Christianity Women were the ones being praised because they brought life onto the earth. Christianity was formed because the church wanted to change the way that society thought of women. The church wanted that male dominance. So for you who does not think for yourself I can see you have obviously been brought up to think of women as not human, which is sad.
2007-01-12 06:11:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gaily 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only a religious crank could have such a stupid sexist view of women and a natural function of the female body.
I wonder who dreams up this crap and portrays it as something their God has deemed necessary to make man feel he is so clean and pious.
Women should have revolted against the church and those idiots who made that view acceptable. No sex till they apologised and even then perhaps denied the perpertrators of such rubbish.
2007-01-12 06:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nahhh, they just need to install a bidet at the church... that will clean it all up.
2007-01-12 09:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by I am Crystal S. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only hope you're saying stuff like that because you're trying to piss people off.
Some will unleash their wrath, you know. I for one will not waste any more time on your dumbass question.
2007-01-12 06:04:32 · answer #7 · answered by Emery 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
yeah there is nothing wrong with that! What kind of church do you go to. And being uncleaned means that you sined our did something like that
2007-01-12 06:00:56 · answer #8 · answered by Brooke H 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I think in most churches it is OK!
2007-01-12 06:11:00 · answer #9 · answered by Tony M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dude, once you push a living being through a hole that is by far not large enough then and ONLY then will your opinion mean anything to me. For now best you shut up.
2007-01-12 06:02:11 · answer #10 · answered by GMILF in training 1 · 5⤊ 3⤋