Isn't the Bible demeaning to women?

Question

(Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.


(Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)

If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.

(2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)

Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'

Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]

(Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)

"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."

(Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)

Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city.

Answer 1

no ist not it just says that thats how is was back then

Answer 2

The Bible contradicts itself, so cherrypicking a pair of wonderful sounding verses would not recommend the Bible isn't misogynistic. right this is slightly: In Exodus 22: If a guy rapes a betrothed female on the city, she gets stoned to loss of life because of the fact she did not cry out. (23-24). That she's betrothed is an substantial distinction. It shows who owns the female. If she's unbetrothed, then the rapist purely has to pay her father and then the rapist gets to maintain her (28-29). choose to dismiss the Hebrew Bible whilst it rather is inconvenient? Then take a glance on the recent testomony, the oft quoted a million Corinthians 14:34-35 forbids females from speaking in church because of the fact it rather is shameful. they'd desire to attend and ask their husbands a thank you to think of at abode. edit: "adult men and female have diferent roles" So, seperate yet 'equivalent'? you have noticeably lots replaced your argument from "its not demeaning" to "they're meant to be demeaned". heavily, examine your further information over. you won't have the ability to ask a question approximately egalitarian ethics and then low fee egalitarianism as a stance. in case you have been in actual fact asking a question, you had it replied fairly nicely many circumstances. in case you have been attempting to soapbox, and disintered in responses, you have been unprepared. i'd prefer to think of you have been being truthful, and that when you get previous human beings disagreeing with you, which you're taking a together as to evaluate all we've suggested.

Answer 3

Yes, it is demeaning and yes it was how it was back then. Thankfully, we have evolved as a society or at least most of us have. But to say that this is the divinely inspired word of a supernatural being doesn't bode well for the character of that being. If it were the word of a divine being who at the time was very active in the world of people wouldn't they have set the matter straight and just forbidden these things or come up with more just laws?

Answer 4

The Bible was, generally speaking, written in a time where women were considered of a lesser status than men (now we know that isn't true, but in the biblical era, so to say, that's the way they saw it). In the ancient Gnostic religion, or beginnings of Christianity, there was a belief in a Mother and Father God, but because of the patriachal era, the Bible essentially was re-written and a lot of the feminine aspects were repressed, based on studies.

Answer 5

You're forgetting the really good ones:

1 Corinthians 14:33-35

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

1 Timothy 2:11-14

11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Answer 6

The Bible was edited by the church who's intention was to
keep all the population under it's control. It relegated the
female to a lower state and by doing so took the male down with them by destroying the spiritual unity between the
male/female relationship. It enhanced the conflict btn. male
female thus cause the situation of divide and conquer on a
personal level.

Answer 7

All taken from the OLD test...try some new test...which is after Christ, son of God, showed up and told the men to treat their women better! Eye for an eye is in the OLD test...as well. The new test is turn your cheek 777 times to your enemies.

But yes, the old test was very cruel to women...the new ones aren't a barrel of laughs either...but better than the old.

I like the one who wrote...what does that say about a man...?

Answer 8

Woman were valuable as chattle, an object to be sold or bartered. Add to that, King James and his issues with women and the Bible is REALLY wrong in its views of women. Good thing women aren't necessary to propagation of the species.

Answer 9

CHRISTIANITY REQUIRES GENDER EQUALITY AND RESPECT FOR LIFE
by Monnica Terwilliger



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Monnica Terwilliger is an Evangelical Protestant Christian. She belongs to the Foursquare denomination, which was started by a woman, Aimee Semple McPherson. Terwilliger describes McPherson as "a successful evangelist, healer, and pastor because of her strong spiritual anointing. According to a prominent church historian, Vinson Synan, 'She holds a prominent rank among all religious leaders in the twentieth century, regardless of their sex, and may well be the most important ordained woman minister in the history of Christianity.'"
Terwilliger's article is identifiably Evangelical in the centrality it gives in ethical deliberation to the words of the Christian Bible and to the example and teaching of Jesus, considered the Son of God and the Savior of the human race. -- Editor

Answer 10

Quite the opposite in fact. Women of that day had no rights and were considered a possession..like a cow.
The word of God elevates women to Joint heirs in Christ Jesus. Very revolutionary in that day.
Matter of fact, any religion that suppresses and oppresses women is not of God.

Answer 11

I think the Bible says some crazy stuff, especially about women, but it would probably be a lot less crazy if it were written more recently.
I do know some people who take the Bible very literally, and think women should be treated as property. Now THAT is crazy.