i defy all christians, particularly women, to read this entire page, including the summaries of verses, and not have their faith shaken.
2007-10-18 04:18:30 · 9 answers · asked by 1foolN6billion 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/womenbible.htm
2007-10-18 04:18:47 · update #1
I agree with you, but they just don't get it.
2007-10-18 04:27:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, didn't change my mind. I've heard all that before. I got about halfway through it when I realized where the writer was coming from, and then I didn't need to read any more to know what he would say. He thinks that, because God saw fit to include records of men's failings and abuses where their wives and sisters and daughters were concerned, that God must wholeheartedly approve of that behavious and have an equally low view of women too. He's mistaken. Those things are written so that we can learn from them. We can learn how NOT to treat one another, and the consequences of our actions. Did you know that those men who treated the women so badly all had serious consequences for it? God punished them for what they did. Why didn't the author tell us that, hmmm? And he didn't look at those verses from another perspective. He sees that "God hates women"....those passages could just as easily be telling us that "men are abusive idiots". That's not true either though!
Anyways, nope, no shaken faith for this woman! But I feel badly for you that you're so upset (for lack of a better word) over the issue of women and the Bible. Read this article: http://www.gty.org/Resources/Articles/2118 This is REALLY how God feels about us woman types.
My experience with Christian men is that, the more they love Christ and the more they follow what the Bible says, the better they treat the women in their lives. My hubby is a true gentleman - he treats me like a queen! The men at my church, including my pastor (who is also my FIL), have never made me feel inferior, weak, stuupid, or unwanted. Never, not in the 10 years I have attended.
2007-10-18 11:38:37 · answer #2 · answered by Blue Eyed Christian 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
To start, I am a fundamentalist Christian.
1. I have NEVER heard any Christian say you should not use painkillers during childbirth.
2. The concept of a woman being 'unclean' during her period/after childbirth was a hygenic one and had nothing to do with her value as a woman.
3. The Biblical reference is a misquote. The ACTUAL verses are: "Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower and withers away;
like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment? Who can bring what is pure from the impure?
No one!". It means, simply, that we are ALL (men and women) destined to have a brief life and that we should not look to ('fix your eye on') mankind to solve our problems, because all who are born of humans are flawed.
4. Your article takes SO much out of context that's it laughable. Women being stoned for not being virgins, for example....you take it out of context and completely ignore John 8
"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
I guess your article writers feel they have not sinned....they are casting a lot of stones.
2007-10-18 13:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read it, not shaken. Just bored with bad writing.
2007-10-18 11:27:57 · answer #4 · answered by dino 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This has been addressed read this page.
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sexism.html
I'm not shaken heck I'm not even stirred.
2007-10-18 11:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by Steel Rain 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope. Sounds like it was written by a bunch of angry feminists with closed minds and a chip on their shoulders. Or is it an excerpt from Cosmopolitan magazine?
2007-10-18 11:24:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
it just more of the same.. NOT SHAKEN.. faith has nothing to do with the writings of man.
2007-10-18 11:21:37 · answer #7 · answered by howie r 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I hope one day God open your heart and give you the gift of repentance, so that you can turn to Jesus and understand that nothing can separate us from the love that God has showed us in Christ Jesus..
2007-10-18 11:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My faith comes from God, and not man.
2007-10-18 11:22:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋