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You keep talking about TV.

What I'm saying is that the whole Saul to Paul, Stuttering Prince to Moses, Adulterous David to Great King etc are stories of great men.... but bad men too, with greatness pulled out of them. Paul was the Great Lion of God, yes, but he still was who he was.

There is nothing there for me to follow....there is no one I can empathize with.... I wish Esther had been a hooker first, or The Virgin Mary had been a kleptomaniac or Salome had started a dancing school or Eve had built a tree house with the Snake and told Adam to take a hike.

There is nothing there in the bible that I can say "Hey! That's about me! I get it! That's where I fit in!"

It's alien. While folks talk about the Bible being a roadmap, for some of us, it's a roadmap on Mars.

Instead, its the voices of angry men fussing about how bad we all are-- women are pulled out for special ridicule it seems. It's a mans book written by me about there male God and colored with their male biases.

With male heros who are 3D and females who are black and white.

Again, whatever Paul was trying to say, it came across as something cruel and uncaring.....quiet the opposite of what you're saying.

A woman is more woman than a man is a man. Here is a wonderful poem about just that.

Love is of man's life,
A thing apart;
'Tis woman's whole existence.

I hope you dig further, because there are many, many great women in the bible. Take Deborah...wow.

She was a ruler, a judge of the Israelite people, a prophetess and a poet (Judges 4 & 5). Deborah led an army of 10,000 troops into battle along with a man named Barak. Even though she prophesied that the Lord would deliver the enemy up, Barak refused to go unless she went with him. Deborah's answer can be found in Judges 4:9 "And she said, I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the Lord will sell Sisera (commander of the opposing army) into the hands of a woman."

Thanks for the Deborah story (I'll read it again, because it's been a long time).

Take Deborah...wow.

And, while she is unnamed, take the woman to whom Solomon wrote the Song of Songs.

Double wow.

Shalom.