Recently I came across a list of “ten reasons God designed there to be male headship” by “complementarian” Bruce Ware. I will list and comment, because it’s a good study in how people eisegete (read into) the scriptures their preconceived agenda.
The order of creation, with the man created first, indicates God’s design of male headship [...]
By Ivan Emke from “Fly on the newsprint” in The Mennonite Reporter
1. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as picking turnips or de-horning cattle. It would indeed be “unnatural” for them to do other forms of work. How can we argue with the intended order that is instituted and [...]
I know, bizarre title. But hopefully you’ll see why I chose it, even though it’s really about a misconception.
I refer to the often-heard whine that the churches/ Bibles/ Christianity has become “emasculated”. A rather pathetic example of this “manly-man” mentality is found Here. It would be comical if it were not someone’s actual view. But [...]
In case you don’t know, “burning a straw man” is the practice of launching a rebuttal against an argument that isn’t actually being made. It can be done in ignorance, and frequently is, but sometimes also in a deliberate attempt to defame one’s opponent by making false charges about them, and then arguing against those [...]
No, not another post about Jesus’ earthly mother. This time it’s about the sister of Martha.
In Luke 10:38-42 we read this:
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the [...]
I mentioned the Orwell book 1984 in an archived post about the KJVO cult, in the way they twist words to make revisions not revisions and errors not errors. But the same sort of “doublespeak” is occurring in the “gender wars” as well, by the self-named “complementarians” who exalt males over females in all spheres [...]
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