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Woman Spent One Year Following The Bibles's Literal Instruction For Women
The Daily Mail ^ | 10-16-12 | Daily Reporter

Posted on 10/16/2012 7:09:14 AM PDT by trailhkr1

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1 posted on 10/16/2012 7:09:17 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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This woman is being deliberately obtuse - what she's doing has nothing to do with Christianity.

But I'm sure its an entertaining book.

2 posted on 10/16/2012 7:16:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: trailhkr1
What man can argue with the wisdom of the bible:

During the days she was menstruating over the course of the year, the Tennessee-based writer, 31, a Christian who describes herself as 'liberated', stayed home from church, carried around a seat cushion to avoid sitting on chairs outside her home, abstained from sex and touching her husband, grew her hair out and slept in a tent.

3 posted on 10/16/2012 7:16:50 AM PDT by Raycpa
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Did she drag the stove out in the yard that time of the month or did she pre-prepare the meals for her “master”??


4 posted on 10/16/2012 7:19:04 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: Raycpa

Um... Many Old Testament rules were dropped for the New Testament.

Or did she also sacrifice animals?


5 posted on 10/16/2012 7:19:10 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: trailhkr1

Guess you’ll have to buy the book to find out.


6 posted on 10/16/2012 7:22:47 AM PDT by skeeter
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I am highly suspicious of the author's motives here. However, — again — Old Testament law was for ancient Israel. It was for their benefit and to focus their faith on the future Savior. Once the Savior came, the New Testament superseded the “law”. Did she sacrifice animals too? Or is this really just an attempt to try and discredit Judasim and Christianity?
7 posted on 10/16/2012 7:24:16 AM PDT by Obadiah (The corrupt MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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To: trailhkr1

while the story was interesting, the posts were very amusing, every heard of Pascal’s wager? its safer to believe and be wrong than to not to believe and be wrong.


8 posted on 10/16/2012 7:24:16 AM PDT by Docbarleypop
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She forgot the part about replacing the old law with the new.

If you’re going to claim to “follow the instructions”, then you have to pay attention when the instructions say, “Don’t do that anymore”.


9 posted on 10/16/2012 7:25:16 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: GeronL
Um... Many Old Testament rules were dropped for the New Testament.

You have to grant that nobody is ever particularly clear what parts of the Old Testament can be safely ignored and what parts result in you going straight to Hell if you ignore them.

Might have been nice if a "list of changes and revisions" like in a military doctrine manual, was issued along with the New Testament.

10 posted on 10/16/2012 7:26:20 AM PDT by Strategerist
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I’m not here to argue over shell fish.

However, I always saw the rule of removing the woman while having her period as having interesting side effects.

Of course there is the peace it brings to a married couple when the woman’s hormones can create turmoil. Then there is the time the woman has to herself away from daily responsibilities. I imagine that every modern woman would be grateful if they had a mandatory time out once every 4 weeks.

Finally,there is the natural consequence of the man and the woman’s children of having to take over the woman’s tasks. This would make for a well rounded family.


11 posted on 10/16/2012 7:27:48 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: GeronL

Old Testament - The Law
New Testament - Grace


12 posted on 10/16/2012 7:29:19 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: trailhkr1

big fascination about menstrating, very little about anything else, like cooking, sewing, etc...


13 posted on 10/16/2012 7:29:59 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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During the year, she learned to “sew” and “cook.” Ooh, how demeaning.


14 posted on 10/16/2012 7:31:28 AM PDT by twister881
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A blogger who spent one year following all of the Bible’s instructions for women, from making her own clothes to 'submitting' to her husband, has now written a book about her experience. Rachel Held Evans’ book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, chronicles her 12 month attempt to obey the Bible's commandments for women. The Bible gives hundreds of rules for women to follow, both explicit and implied, in the Old Testament and the New.

It also gives ten commandments for both men and women to keep. Did Rachel Held Evans keep every one of those, too?

15 posted on 10/16/2012 7:33:45 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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"However, I always saw the rule of removing the woman while having her period as having interesting side effects.

Of course there is the peace it brings to a married couple when the woman’s hormones can create turmoil"

My husband could attest to that...he just removes himself to the basement for a couple of days, LOL.

16 posted on 10/16/2012 7:36:21 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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To: Docbarleypop
its safer to believe and be wrong than to not to believe and be wrong.

Beliefs belong in church.

QED!

17 posted on 10/16/2012 7:37:03 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. [Galatians 5:18]
18 posted on 10/16/2012 7:38:26 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Strategerist

True, but the Holy Spirit offers us wisdom and the overall principle in the New Testament is that all things are “legal” in Christ but not all things are worthwhile.

The Law of the Old Testament was to prove, in essence, that Man could never approach the holiness of God - that even something as seemingly simple as the Ten Commandments was impossible to keep without ever violating. Then Jesus blew that out of the water by throwing in things like lust and hate. The only way to approach God’s holiness is by grace through faith in Christ’s redeeming power.

Therefore, there were no longer dietary laws or laws against intermarriage or demands for circumcision, only to believe in Christ and receive His free gift of salvation then, out of reverence, seek His will, do good and not provide a stumbling block for others.

As for this woman, all she really needed to do was to recognize that Christ is the head of His church and that her husband is the head of their household and that the Christian husband is subjected to Christ.

For the military-minded, there is a chain-of command: Father-Son-Church-Husbands-Wives-Children. When each responds to those lower than them out of love and responds to each above their rank with obedience, everything works superbly.


19 posted on 10/16/2012 7:43:02 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: OldNavyVet
Beliefs belong in church.

To paraphase a famous quotation ...

So many religions, so little time.

20 posted on 10/16/2012 7:44:26 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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