Have you read the Bible? It talks about how women are inferior and that girls are 'unclean' and things like that. How is it that this doesn't bother you? How can you love a God who seems to think that women are so horrible?
I'm just wondering, because it makes no sense to me. At all.
2007-01-20 09:40:30 · 23 answers · asked by Samantha 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why is it still included in the Bible if it's irrellevant?
2007-01-20 09:46:40 · update #1
He allowed a woman to be the mother of his child? Was he going to make a male be the mother of his child? Since when do males have the reproductive organs to do that?
2007-01-20 09:48:51 · update #2
I don't understand why I'm being told to go to church. I can't ask a question without having something wrong with me? I'm not aloud to wonder about anything?
THIS IS WHY I'M AN ATHEIST.
2007-01-20 09:58:16 · update #3
Hi I'm a thinking Christian Feminist - In fact I'm training to be a priest at Oxford Uni UK
The Bible was written in an increadibly patriarchal time, what's more, a lot of modern christianity is still seeing it through the eyes of the Victorians and their hang ups on things like sex and women's place so a lot of the things you hear people say in the Bible aren't actually there when you look back at it in the original languages it was written in.
The thing that gives me hope in a God that is not sexist is that this is a God who starts with the mess we are in and takes us step by step out of it into health and wholeness. So God over and over the Bible shows God taking people who are messed up in their heads - they are racist, sexist in the extreme and just generally a long way from where God intented them to be and he takes them the first step out of this... so Paul doesn't say slavery is wrong but that if you have slaves you should treat them as your equals... mindblowing in itself but genious in a stratagy to move them away from slavery step by step.
Jesus himself was so totally liberating. He had women disciples - defending Mary as she sat at his feet (the place of the disciple of a rabbi) rather than do the traditional female role of helping in the kitchen. The first teacher he sent out to proclaim his resurection was a woman... Jesus spoke respectfully to the Samaritan woman... he shocked people in his respect of women all the time.
And I know in my personal relationship with Jesus that I have been more empowered by this than anything else in my life.
The "unclean" issue in the time of a woman's period etc was a general thing about blood - any blood was proclamed to be unclean. If you touch an other person's blood you are unclean (including menstration and giving birth amongst a lot of other things that were not gender specific)
This was partly a health issue - keeping the Jewish people away from disease.
But the main reason was preparing a people who would understand that the Blood of Jesus had the symbolism of taking on our uncleaness - so in that sense women were ultimately being more associated with Jesus.
Hope this helps - I know it's a tough issue - but there really has been a lot of layers placed on Christianity by Christians who don't really know what's really in the Bible.
Hope you find answers to your questions.
Grace x
2007-01-20 10:12:18 · answer #1 · answered by Grace 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you read the Bible? The "unclean" women either just gave birth and had to go through a cleansing or were going through a period. It doesn't mean that women are ALWAYS unclean. By the way, men can also be unclean. Also, where is your example of inferior women in the Bible? There are many examples in the Bible of very powerful women and weak women. Powerful men and weak men are also in the Bible.
Sounds like you just want an excuse not to believe. Read the Bible, cover to cover and you'll see that your believe is not correct regarding women.
2007-01-20 09:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do not think the the bible calls all women unclean. Are you talking about the woman with the issue of blood? I am perfectly comfortable with the gender roles outlined in the bible. I look forward to meeting a man who is a man of God, and my superior. Certainly I am not talking about the average man. I am not looking to put a man who is not worthy in this position, but I want to be what God wants me to be as a woman. To really be empowered as a woman is to live up to what that is. Proverbs 31:10-31. Have you read what that scripture says about women?
2007-01-20 10:44:26 · answer #3 · answered by isiseamenhotep 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
many women today agree, don't like the idea they are second class citizens, traded for sheep and considered property in ten commandments
17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house;
you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
The Biblical view of women
The God of the Bible decrees that woman must submit to the dominance of man.
"The social and legal position of an Israelite wife was inferior to the position a wife occupied in the great countries round about... all the texts show that Israelites wanted mainly sons to perpetuate the family line and fortune, and to preserve the ancestral inheritance... A husband could divorce his wife; women on the other hand could not ask for divorce... the wife called her husband Ba'al or master; she also called him adon or lord; she addressed him, in fact, as a slave addressed his master or subject, his king. The Decalogue includes a man's wife among his possessions... all her life she remains a minor. The wife does not inherit from her husband, nor daughters from their father, except when there is no male heir. A vow made by a girl or married woman needs, to be valid, the consent of the father or husband and if this consent is withheld, the vow is null and void. A man had a right to sell his daughter. Women were excluded from the succession."
-Roland de Vaux, archaeologist and priest
2007-01-20 09:48:42 · answer #4 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Since when does God think women are horrible? You need verses to back up that claim. God loves women. See: Song of Solomon, Hosea, THE GOSPELS.
God allowed a woman, a mere teenage girl, to mother his Son. God sent women to tell his disciples about his RISEN Son.
In the Old Testament, God used a woman to keep his spies save from detection.
God used a woman to help RULE his nation.
God uses woman all throughout the Bible for his purposes and for his delight.
Yes, I have read the Bible. Many times. Apparently YOU haven't. Shame.
God bless and may he turn your eyes to the TRUTH.
G.B.
2007-01-20 09:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by L-dog =) 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
God didn't change just because man did. There was a time when there were fascinating sociological distinctions between the genders and they were each appreciated for how they were distinct from the other. Now those distinctions have gotten blurred because people think that man has risen above what the bible has to say about men and women and those differences that were so vital for the preservation of our world are being lost. The end is near.
2007-01-20 09:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have read the bible and you aren't correct. What is unclean is having a period. And, it does stink.
God loves me and I am a woman.
It makes no sense to you because you don't have a personal relationship with God, through faith in Jesus Christ.
Read the http://www.fathersloveletter.com That is in the Bible.
I think you might be reading the Catholic Cannon. It has anti-women apochryphal books in them. Those books have been tested and found false. There are other apocryphal books that also are anti-women, and aren't true.
2007-01-20 09:58:48 · answer #7 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Many can't read. They just listen & believe what they are told by their "elders". By the time they learn to read, the doctrine & falsehoods of those who taught them have already been deeply embedded in the brains & the words have a different meaning to them who have been told, rather than them who learns the true meanings & definitions of the words in any book. The people you speak of are FOLLOWERS & not LEADERS. It is as cruel as a cult to bring children up like this, especially females. The male children suffer from this brainwashing also. Predators often take a child who was raised in a Christian home because they know how to talk to them & get them to do what they want by manipulation of their words. Most predators originate in Churches.
2007-01-20 09:54:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Paul highly respected the women who work diligently for the church. Women are just as needed in God's kingdom as anyone else.
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus. 4 They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.
Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.
God Bless
2007-01-20 09:52:33 · answer #9 · answered by L Strunk 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Read the Bible. Read about the women in the Bible.
2007-01-20 09:47:32 · answer #10 · answered by Red neck 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋