Do you believe that the Book of Genesis is discriminating against women?

Question

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Answer 1

The bible has been changed, so why bother to read something that is tainted.

Answer 2

The way the King James Bible is interperted it is discriminating against Eve. It appears that Adam is the favorite when compared to Eve. It also appears that Abel is favorite as compared to Cain. But isn't that what religion is about. Discriminating about what is right and wrong. Good and bad. the righteous and the unrighteous, the truth and the lie, the light and the dark. there isn't a commandment about thou shalt not discriminate. You would do well to do so. God does discriminate it tells us so in the Bible. i would rather be with the discriminating in character than with the fools. I am a child of the True God

Answer 3

No, Oklahoma.

Both male and female have "a role" in life. Only "modern" woman and some males see it in such a negative light. Women are to be lifted up and protected treasured above all and if needed die for just as Christ died for the Church.

If done properly a woman should hardly see the man as "over" her. Agreement cannot always be reached and a hierarchy is the only way to fix this, but the man better have the best interest of the family before invoking this.

Answer 4

I don't think a book can have a discriminatory standpoint. I believe that people USE Genesis (and Paul's writings, for that matter) as an excuse for discriminating against women. I'm an American in America. :-)

Answer 5

No. It draws a difference between men and women (such as it would be hard to curse men in childbirth). It also accurately records how some women were treated at the time of Genesis. But that does not mean that it condones that action. (Such as it records that Cain killed Abel, but it does not condone murder).

USA / White

Answer 6

I believe the book of Genesis was a narrative about the creation told for a people who were not scientific, and who lived in a patriarchial society. To give them an account in which women were equal wouldn't have made much sense for their day and time, and would almost certainly not have been accepted.

I do think that continued reliance upon it as literal truth has not helped women in some respects, but it was appropriate for its time and place.

Answer 7

Yes, Read Genesis 19. Discriminating is a vague word though.
USA

Answer 8

No, in fact, men and women were equal partners with each other until they commited sin, then such a hierarchy became a part of the sin nature. USA

Answer 9

U.S.- No it is not. If anything it could show how the fall of man was all Adam's if your thoroughly read the story of creation and the events that followed, you will see that God gave Adam the instructions not to eat of the forbidden fruit. You will also note that nothing happened to Adam and Eve until ADAM ate of the fruit. Because he was the one whom God had specifically given the instructions to (because he was the first) it was his responsibility and therefore his fault. No discrmination.

Answer 10

No and just for the sake of it. God created woman second although she is a help mate to man. This does not mean she is second class. In the New Testament we are told that women are to submit to their husbands, and the husbands are to cherish their wives as Christ loves the Church. To put that as simple as possible it means that both play a very large roll in God's Kingdom.
Mid-West, United States and Citizen of the Kingdom of God.

Answer 11

Women were created also. There is no conflict there. Little mosque on the prairie (Near the grain elevator)