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Recent content by Silhouette

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    Newbie Question

    Thanks Wonder111! I'm not really all that adept at posting here yet. I have to work out all the little clicky-thingys. (highly technical term!). By the way thanks for the term "Jesus as a Feminist" you coined it for me; so to your credit sister.
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    Newbie Question

    Just in specific with 1 Timothy 2:11-15 are women denigrated. Those are good observations. The Romans passage I agree with wholeheartedly. I think you're mistaken still though with Paul not saying the Barbarians were unwise people. It reads that that is exactly what he's saying. It's not a...
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    Newbie Question

    Incorrect. Look at the passage again. In one thought he says the Greeks and the Barbarians; the wise and the unwise. Those are respective comparisons. He is calling the Barbarians "unwise". And at once he is saying that even the unwise have something to be indebted to; something to offer in...
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    Newbie Question

    Clinzey writes: "(and as far as the anti-woman passage from Timothy, I think that in our day and age Paul would prohibit any unskilled, uncontrolled, divisive person from speaking, regardless of gender, race, etc.)." Romans 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both...
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    Newbie Question

    Well that's cool; I know a few women clergy myself. I guess I understand why there are so many sects of christianity today. Some believe this part of the Bible; some believe that part of the Bible. By the way; I don't speak sarcastically. I speak literally. I pose things that are intended...
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    The "Origen" of All Modern Versions

    My question is who condemned the gnostic texts as heritical? Ah,,, therein lies the mystery. For we know it wasn't Christ; by the time the condemnation happened Jesus had died, risen and gone on to greener pastures. So then we must assume it was mere mortals who condemned the original gnostic...
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    should we take the creation story literally or allegorically???

    I accept the story as literal with one notable exception. Where it is stated that the world was created in seven days; those days were REEEEEEAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY long. So much so that that span of time equals the same as Darwin's theory. I really don't see that much of a...
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    Newbie Question

    Well that's a relief that it's not blasphemous to ignore parts of the Bible. But again I pose the question: which ones? It's all well and good for you and I to suppose that Paul meant this or that: but what did he really mean? Or better yet, what did Peter and Timothy mean? And why is the...
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    Newbie Question

    Wow Phillip. I guess it just goes to show how simple words in the english language can be iterpreted so very differently by two different people. Since the Bible is held as the Word of God, isn't it used as a means to instruct people how to live today? Yes, back then as you say, women...
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    Newbie Question

    Well this set of passages from Timothy has particular impact with respect to my education experience particularly: 1 Timothy 2:11-15 "2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in...
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    Newbie Question

    Well, I'm not allowed to post links yet, otherwise I would. But if you want to email me, I can give you a link to a master's thesis that is pretty convincing that Magdalene was edited out of importance to Jesus and therefore her account was also made "unimportant". That her account was in part...
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    The "Origen" of All Modern Versions

    Dont the Gnostic Texts predate the 3rd century versions? I read somewhere that there was a split early in the 1st century AD between those who acknowledged the Apostle Magdalene and those who sought to diminish her importance to Jesus in the Scriptures; which is as it stands today. Something...
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    Harlot Mother Neglecting Children

    There is this woman in my community that used to be christian but decided that fornication with as many men possible was her new religion. I've taken in one of her four children a couple of days a week for years just to spare this little girl the antics of her seductress mother. The other...
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    Newbie Question

    I've been troubled about the Bible ever since a friend of mine sent the following link. Apparently the Gospel of John isn't really John but rather Mary Magdalene. At first I laughed my you-know-what off. But then I read it and I was amazed. It really does seem like Magdalene was "edited" out of...