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To: najida
Fear of women (& their sexuality) and a total lack of understanding permeates the entire book.

You've ignored a lot of women. You've ignored Sarah and Hagar. You've ignored Rachel. You've ignored Bathsheba. You've ignored Esther. All did things that would easily be called wrong - manipulative, untrusting, lying. Yet all are part of the pantheon of faith. They were certainly women who went from point A to point B.

I understand how your reading of the Bible was from a particular viewpoint, but there is another viewpoint. You should now be in a position to open your mind to it.

Shalom.

295 posted on 08/25/2006 7:33:48 AM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: ArGee

Sarah--- I felt sorry for her then I got angry with her.....
Hagar I really, REALLY felt sorry for....."Here hunny, screw the help so you can have a kid!"

Bathsheba was another bad girl and an adulteress (and pretty much written out of the story once hubby was killed).

Rachel I don't remember much more of than 7 years and 7 more years. I felt sorry for her too because her father treated her like a prize heiffer.

Esther I just mentioned.

OK, What I am trying to say is you KNOW the men...you hear their stories, prayers, struggles, actually feel their angst and what draws them to God... you see them work through disbelief to faith. You feel their pain.

The women are just either good to start with, bad and stay bad for the most part, or property. Again, as a woman, I don't see much going on inside their pretty little heads other than being quiet and obdient or raising hell and getting into trouble (me I guess).


302 posted on 08/25/2006 7:43:52 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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