Please, no vulgar remarks, I want an honest and intelligent answer. I have no answer for you.
2007-03-22 20:43:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Jesus was to stay sinless in his life here on earth and also to keep the appearance of being a chaste man.....How could he of appeared to be a Holy man surrounded by women? Long ago as it is today people gossiped and talked, he had one women who joined his flock, Mary Magnolin ( didn't spell it right I know) and even now people are trying to accuse him of sleeping with her and having a child, can you imagine if he had a lot of women around him......His message would have been lost....
2007-03-22 20:55:37 · answer #1 · answered by She Said 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When what Christians know as the New Testament was being worked out by scholars, church leaders and :) conference committees and caucuses, generations after the events they described, those books and peoples who believed Jesus did NOT just pick twelve men were rejected, with violence.
But even according to the books they kept - who were NOT hiding in fear and shame at denying Jesus? Who was appointed to first announce the Ressurrection? Read your Acts of the Apostles - it was a woman. And the men ridiculed her. Through whom did Christ come to earth? Read all the Gospels which tell of Jesus' birth and childhood - it was through another woman. So - what Jesus did, and what the church authorities later recognized, are not identical IMHO.
By the way - I think the Gospels counted the disciples as forty (a symbolic number) and maybe more. You mean Apostles and 12 is also a symbolic number. Both are used to say, in effect, the Old Testament is fulfilled by the New, and the New is founded on the Old...
2007-03-23 05:22:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What I think, since women didn't have equal rights in most countries up until the late 1800s, the world of Jesus's time would have still been dominated politically, socially, religiously etcetera by men, and women would not have been thought anything as important other than house wives. Who is to say Jesus, even if he was supposed to be fair to everyone, would not have thought differently about equal rights and grew up with the knowledge that men were "superior" just because he was told that?
2007-03-23 07:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by Lief Tanner 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus chose the 12 men because in that culture; women did not have a high standing, and Jesus wanted his disciples to be people that men of that culture would listen to.
According to Judaic law; women were supposed to remain silent in the temple.
2007-03-23 06:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Do you want a personal opinion or a bible one. My thought is the bible was written by men and therefore rather Jesus really did choose 12 men or women its irrelevant. The bible is sexist. I do believe in God and Jesus. However I also believe that Mary the "prostitute" was not a prostitute but perhaps a disciple. Well hope you like my honest answer.
2007-03-23 04:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by Lost and Confussed 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's the Middle East, it's a male dominated society now and it was a male dominated society then. It's nothing personal to women, it's just that what men were saying was more important in that time period and in that area.
I'm sure Jesus may have disliked this system, being the son of God, but I'm sure he also knew that if he wanted to get the word out he would have needed to use men.
2007-03-24 20:22:05 · answer #6 · answered by Matt Zero 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A better question is, would the world have excepted a female savior??? Actually God said the women would crush satan's head and thats what Mary did when she brought Jesus into the world to save the world, she did what Eve could not do in the garden. Genesis 3:15
2007-03-23 07:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that is wrong because Mary of Magdela was one of his disciples too. In fact, it was written in many different books, which are not in the original bible, that women were often favored over men. Men wrote women either into submission, as a whore, or out of the books all together. In those times, an independent woman was blasphemous.
2007-03-23 05:39:02 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Aqua Moon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Authority is a weighty thing. It's cheaper by the dozen. Therefore, 12 men is not only logical, but a great deal.
Had 12 women been chosen, people would have looked, instead of listened.
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2007-03-23 03:46:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because in Ancient times both Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and Hebrew cultures did not recognize women as leaders in civil or religious matters. If he had 12 women, no one would have listened to what he was saying.
2007-03-23 03:47:50 · answer #10 · answered by mark g 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋