nPeace
Veteran Member
In the Bible, both men and women had authority.Nope, men have authorty over women. It's explicitly mentionned several times in the OT and the NT and confirmed by secular sources on how those society behaved. Women had a certain form of authority, especially over their children, but they were subject to the authority of their husband and father if they were not married.
A woman could exercise authority over a man under her roof.
A woman could exercise authority over a man, working for her.
This is in the Bible.
A husband is head of his home, as an arrangement for order.
This authority has nothing to do with superiority or higher or lesser being.
(1 Corinthians 7:4) . . .The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does; likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife does.
No. You simply are taking words and using them out of context. Authority does not mean better than, or more important than. Dictionaries are a dime a dozen.And the NT specifically condamns and reject that earlier practice which was also exception and not rule. You are trying to polish a turd there.
Please refer to scriptural text and not personal opinion, if you are addressing the OP.You view of order imposed a regime of violence towards women which is insane and against which women have rebelled. It also imposes an "order" based on gender not based on virtues, skills, common accord or accomplishment. Then again you seem to use "order" in the same way tyrants justify their violence.
You can always migrate to North Korea, the tribal terrioty of Pakistan or Saudi Arabia to live in a world similar to that in which Jesus was born and raised. It's the closest you will ever experiment to live in the past. Sadly, you might fight it difficult to tolerate the abject poverty this type of "order" breeds
I refer to you to the incredible damage, especially in terms of sexual violence, this has caused over the decades and still does in the more fundamentalist cults like the quiverfull movement, the fundamentalist Mormon Church and the Jehova Witness.
Conjecture and opinionated views are not being debated here.Male slaves were sold, as a rule, at twice the rate of female slaves of the same quality. Male Hebrews could be taken into slavery for debts, but had to be released after a maximum of seven years. Female Hebrews could be taken for life.
Women could get loans. There was equality. God protected women, and gave consideration to them.Women couldn't get loan since the dotary couldn't be seized (thus no one would accept it as a waranty) and didn't personnaly owned anything else as the product of their work was owned by their husband or father as was everything else (that or it was part of their dowery and thus couldn't be seized or loaned). You had to wait until the 1960's for women to be able to take loans without a man's permission.
This is Biblical.
Please give the Chapter and verse where God ordered "the killing of children in front of their mother before they, themselves were killed with the notable exception of virgin girls to be taken as captives".He specifically order the Hebrews to massacre all men, women and child, going so far as to order the killing of children in front of their mother before they, themselves were killed with the notable exception of virgin girls to be taken as captives. He also ordered the killing of their animals.
Repeat...Leviticus 18:24, 25, 27-29 Justice; Righteousness; Protecting the land. These are all good.
Why is justice and righteousness bad to you? Not that it matters.
I'm not defending what you are making up. I am standing on the side of what I honestly read.Sports hunting was popular in Ancient Palestine, especially for the royalty.
You advocate and defend slavery, genocide, rape, marital rape, child marriage, women's oppression. You are currently trying to defend the worst things that humanity ever produced. Think about that for a second. The worst injustice and the worst crimes man has commited against man you are trying to defend.
Why should I support things that are asserted, by people who are biasedly opinionated?
I know better than that.
I have presented the scriptures. You are presenting half truths with added outright unsupported allegations.
Would you go to court, with no evidence, and make assertions, and think it just that the judge agree with you?
Who does that? Yet, that's what you are here doing... only not in court.
Last edited: