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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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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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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 Once the Savior came, the New Testament superseded the “law”.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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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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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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The woman in the article describes herself as a "liberated" Christian. I'd be really interested in asking her what she thinks she's liberated from.

Also, I wonder if she included in her book any of the Bible's instructions on how men are to treat their wives...i.e., cherish them and love them as Christ loves the church. I'm guessing she didn't. Her book seems like an attempt to paint the Bible as anti-woman.

As an aside, I really don't get some females' fascination with the vagina, and the fairly recent tendency to revere it as some kind of sacred object.

23 posted on 10/16/2012 7:49:22 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Don't be afraid to see what you see. (Ronald Reagan))
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I enjoy sewing and I have made everything from a suit for my husband to wedding dresses and prom dresses.
I am also a Christian who is on my third reading of the Bible. I can honestly say that I have yet to come across a scripture that commands women to make their own clothes!
I know the Proverbs 31 woman is mentioned as making clothing for her family but in those days it was a necessity, not a God given requirement.
That said, I’m headed to Amazon to purchase “Sew What Skirts” both for myself and to teach my granddaughters to sew!


29 posted on 10/16/2012 8:29:31 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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Without actually reading the whole article, I presume that she did this, not as a religious act or experiment, but solely to announce what she had done, become famous, write a book, go on talk shows, and make money.

And, incidentally, to try to undermine religion.


31 posted on 10/16/2012 8:35:18 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Oh, shes so clever and sassy. How did she ever know that the homo media would spit all over themselves if she came up with the unique idea of trashing the Bible and saying vagina?

She gonna be on tee vee? American idol in her little Christian vagina tent out back because we all know Christians are doing that all the time? Oh! Oh! She says vagina! That’s new for the homo crowd! That’s so shocking and fabulous! Christians everywhere are going to “change” into sassy little tent beans now! She showed us! Wait a minute! I think this is a tired old rerun!

One can arrive at sexual morality via the school of hard knocks or just listen to what generations before them learned the hard way. They don’t even have to open the Bible to see that there is no society on earth that is organizing itself around homos because it is not a winning human survival strategy on a micro or macro level.

Homos can do their thing in America like everyone else. We are not going to put their butt pleasure at the center of our education, families, socialization, worship, and lives. How shocking is this?


43 posted on 10/16/2012 10:19:23 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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what it should prove is how much more reasonable our fundamentalists are, given they don’t actually live this way. Juxtapose this to the way the kooky Islamic fundamentalists interpret how women in their culture should live.


46 posted on 10/16/2012 12:37:13 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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She’s kind of cute. I could handle someone like that submitting to me 25 days a month.


53 posted on 10/17/2012 8:52:50 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Romney/Ryan 2012)
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