by Band on the Run 133 Replies latest watchtower bible
BOTR,
Depends on your view and interpreatation of things:
http://www.gty.org/resources/articles/A265
http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_womensrights.htm
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=3654
As compared to the other ANE writings?
On second thought, an entirely different thread might be best. My apologies to the OP.
A slave of Christ,
SA
BOTR, it's not so much anti-woman as women don't matter. I don't think this is a problem only in the Judeo-Christian group.
On a completely different note, I've always been fascinated with this creation myth:
And on a final discordant note, I've always been comfortable with story, legend, fables, fairy tales and myth. I fairly devoured Grimm's Fairy Tales as a child. Out of these often violent and tremendous stories comes a common culture, a shared story-telling. So what if they aren't factual? It's not like I went out and grew my hair twenty feet to snare my prince charming, or threw water on my evil stepmother.
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
G.K. Chesterton
Taking a literall view of Genesis as history is crazy with all of the physical evidence that humans and civilizations were on earth far before the bible account of Genesis.
If you can't trust the very first book in the bible as being true, then why should you put trust in any other parts of this book?
BOTR, it's not so much anti-woman as
women don't matter
One of the ten commandments is to honour the father AND the mother, how can women NOT matter?
Some women liek Esther and Ruth and Jael had prominentate stories in the OT.
An agnostic response is one reaction, but a liberal believer's response is as
well without harm.
A possible interpretation of Gen. (vs. the GB stances): Edit > Find > Dowsing
for evidence
http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklyn1acont.htm
A possible interpretation of Gen. and Jesus (vs. the GB stances): Edit > Find
> Ransom
http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklyn8.htm
The Colbert Report Wed, Jan 9, 2013, 3rd segment Neil Shubin "The Universe
Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People"
http://www.hulu.com/#!watch/443637
PSacramento, regardless of the glittering exceptions, women were not equal under the law.
Women are possessions in the OT and not much better in the NT.
To compare the place of women in Israel with that of women other ANE societies is pointless for anybody who believes Israel was led by god.
It ought to been a shining example of equality even by the most enlightened modern standards.
PSacramento, regardless of the glittering exceptions, women were not equal under the law.
Quite correct and even men have different positions under the Law.
Equality really isn't a big concern in the OT Laws.
Equality really isn't a big concern in the OT Laws
Why not?
