Posted on 06/18/2006 2:25:46 PM PDT by Saint Reagan
Flip the page on your calendar - This is the 21st Century.
Oh my!
It's been established that she's married to a man, so the snide joke is not really necessary. Perhaps you'd prefer to make a snide joke about their daughter, who is in the Air Force. :)
Condolences...may her tenure be brief and uneventful.
What reality? A woman is in a leadership position of the church. What reality do I have to deal with? Do I agree with some of her positions (namely the issue of what she believes on homosexuality)? No I do not. However that's not to say that a woman couldn't lead a Godly church.
Yes, clearly.
What concerns me is the churches that have little time for God!
Good observation.
"However that's not to say that a woman couldn't lead a Godly church."
I agree with this. If you read the section of 1 Timothy that some Christian churches use as their basis for rejecting women in their church, it basically follows the same idea as Islam--that women are inferior to men in every way, and they should always shut their mouths and essentially be the slaves of men.
To give everyone a little background, these are the words and interpretations of St. Paul to Ephesus--a community that held the goddess Artemis higher than all men. If you were in Paul's shoes and you were trying to sell a dead Jew as the son of God, wouldn't you attempt to get them to reject their pagan idea of female superiority?
As a side note, has anyone read through Judges 19 lately? You know, the story of a man who offered his own virgin daughter to be gang raped rather than allowing some guy he just met to be harmed? And then...when another woman is raped and murdered by the same nutcases, her lover chops her up. It just gives you the warm fuzzies, doesn't it?
Some things in the bible need to be considered for the context they were written. Although the bible may be inspired by God (as I believe it was), it was still written by humans.
What concerns me is the churches that have little time for God!
I think that I'm having a hard time distinguishing between the two. Is there a difference?
Amen to that.
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