This thread will take some Biblical stories, and alter them to fit the doctrines of today, and show how SILLY the Bible would be, if it truly happened as that...
CAN YOU IMAGINE??? if Mary Magdalene had met Jesus at the garden of the tomb, and been told by the Lord to be the first minister to preach a resurrection message to the disciples who were in hiding.... and...
she had reasoned...
'If I go there, the disciples are gathered together, and that would be a church service, and I would be the preacher... but I should not speak to men, nor preach a sermon to them, nor correct them for their doubts and fears in hiding while I was going to the tomb... I will be called a 'jezebel'.
I cannot speak that sermon to these 11 disciples... they will rightly rebuke me...
I had better just sit in the back, and smile... for if I let out this sermon of resurrection that I have, certainly I will be reprimanded...
I am allowed to tell my husband when at home, but wait, I am unmarried, so I have no man that I can tell...
If two or three gather together, it is a church service, so if I meet any man outside these four walls, I will be in a church service, and cannot tell...
I guess my only hope is to find a husband, marry him, and then on the wedding night, I can proclaim, Jesus is alive, and tell him how I met the Lord, and what He wants me to tell the disciples about meeting Him in Galilee...
Guess, I better propose to one of those single disciples soon, then my new husband can relate this wonderful sermon, this sermon has got to be preached.
LOL
The subject of women has long been debated in Christian circles.
The church has backslidden from the truth proclaimed by the Word of God.
The Word of God proclaims that God does not see us as male or female. He sees us all as equals, regardless of the gender.
So why would God favor one gender over another?
He does not, and when Christians teach otherwise, they are misapplying, and misinterpreting Scriptures.
Galatians 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
All races, classes, and sexes are equal in rights and privileges.
In Christianity, there is an equality for women that is unlike any other culture of the past.
In the Bible days, women were thought to be inferior to men.
They walked humbly behind their mate.
They served him in total subjection and fear.
If he chose, he could divorce her for combing her hair in an unpleasing manner.
He could send her from his home and from his life with a few words.
Then came Jesus. He taught a new equality for women.
He taught that God saw all of mankind as equal.
The women were delighted in that day.
Today, in Christianity, we find the doctrines of putting women as inferior to men, having crept back into the dogmas of congregations.
This is regrettable and sinful.
It is contrary to the true teachings of the Bible.
All Christians are as one in God's eyes.
He does not care what your profession is, and He does not care what your skin color is. He does not care if you are Jewish or Gentile, and He does not care if you are male or female.
Acts 10:34
"Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons..."
Romans 2:11
"For there is no respect of persons with God."
Ephesians 6:9
"...neither is there respect of persons with Him."
I Peter 1:17
"And if ye call on the Father, Who without respect of persons judgeth..."
Can God make it any clearer? Does He need to put handwriting on the walls of the buildings of the congregations of today?
The truth of the New Testament's teaching is that God sees no difference in the rights and privileges of men or women.
The congregations of Christianity have often perverted some of the Scriptures.
Many have tried to teach that women are inferior to men.
I Corinthians 14:34-35
"Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak... And if they learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
This refers to the confusion caused when the women talked out loud to husbands in the midst of sermons. The women of the day were not educated as the men, and often did not understand what the preacher was saying.
In Christianity, the women were being given equality, and were being taught as the men in this new Christian faith.
Paul was only saying that the women should question the husband at home, and not disrupt the service.
I Timothy 2:11-12
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
This passage in Timothy also refers to the same situation as I Corinthians 14:34-35. The women were not to interrupt the sermon with talking out loud to their husbands.
The word "subjection" is from the Greek word
"hupotage" which means "a voluntary yielding in love."
There is a time for women to question their husband about the sermon. In love and respect for the service and for the husband, the wife should voluntarily wait.
They were also not to not argue with the man's interpretation of the sermon during the service.
This in no way lessens her equality, it only emphasizes a restraint of embarrassing a mate in public by flaunting her equality.
It also was to encourage her to respect the sanctity of the service.
This new found freedom in Christianity had now allowed a woman to disagree with her husband.
Sometimes, in a service there was probably a desire of the wife to say - "I told you so!"
She may want to teach her husband something she had learned before he had.
Paul simply instructs the woman not to "usurp authority" over the man, but to silently listen.
The Greek word for "usurp authority" is the word -
"authenteo"
which means "to exercise one's power over..."
In Christianity, the wife does have "power", and she can exercise it to question the husband, and to even teach the husband.
The translators were all men, and questionably translated this Greek word improperly.
A whole different meaning is found in the original word.
It shows that women have an "authority" to speak their mind, and have an opinion different from the husband's.
Paul is not removing the authority from the woman, that Christianity had given her.
No!
Rather he is only saying that she should not exercise that power in the middle of his sermon.
So, the idea that a woman is a 'jezebel' if she corrects, disagrees, preaches to a man, is nonsense.
Mary Magdalene had no such doctrine taught her by the Lord, and she immediately went and was the first preacher of the church age to preach a resurrection message.
Quite an honor.
more 'can you imagines?' to come
CAN YOU IMAGINE??? if Mary Magdalene had met Jesus at the garden of the tomb, and been told by the Lord to be the first minister to preach a resurrection message to the disciples who were in hiding.... and...
she had reasoned...
'If I go there, the disciples are gathered together, and that would be a church service, and I would be the preacher... but I should not speak to men, nor preach a sermon to them, nor correct them for their doubts and fears in hiding while I was going to the tomb... I will be called a 'jezebel'.
I cannot speak that sermon to these 11 disciples... they will rightly rebuke me...
I had better just sit in the back, and smile... for if I let out this sermon of resurrection that I have, certainly I will be reprimanded...
I am allowed to tell my husband when at home, but wait, I am unmarried, so I have no man that I can tell...
If two or three gather together, it is a church service, so if I meet any man outside these four walls, I will be in a church service, and cannot tell...
I guess my only hope is to find a husband, marry him, and then on the wedding night, I can proclaim, Jesus is alive, and tell him how I met the Lord, and what He wants me to tell the disciples about meeting Him in Galilee...
Guess, I better propose to one of those single disciples soon, then my new husband can relate this wonderful sermon, this sermon has got to be preached.
LOL
The subject of women has long been debated in Christian circles.
The church has backslidden from the truth proclaimed by the Word of God.
The Word of God proclaims that God does not see us as male or female. He sees us all as equals, regardless of the gender.
So why would God favor one gender over another?
He does not, and when Christians teach otherwise, they are misapplying, and misinterpreting Scriptures.
Galatians 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
All races, classes, and sexes are equal in rights and privileges.
In Christianity, there is an equality for women that is unlike any other culture of the past.
In the Bible days, women were thought to be inferior to men.
They walked humbly behind their mate.
They served him in total subjection and fear.
If he chose, he could divorce her for combing her hair in an unpleasing manner.
He could send her from his home and from his life with a few words.
Then came Jesus. He taught a new equality for women.
He taught that God saw all of mankind as equal.
The women were delighted in that day.
Today, in Christianity, we find the doctrines of putting women as inferior to men, having crept back into the dogmas of congregations.
This is regrettable and sinful.
It is contrary to the true teachings of the Bible.
All Christians are as one in God's eyes.
He does not care what your profession is, and He does not care what your skin color is. He does not care if you are Jewish or Gentile, and He does not care if you are male or female.
Acts 10:34
"Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons..."
Romans 2:11
"For there is no respect of persons with God."
Ephesians 6:9
"...neither is there respect of persons with Him."
I Peter 1:17
"And if ye call on the Father, Who without respect of persons judgeth..."
Can God make it any clearer? Does He need to put handwriting on the walls of the buildings of the congregations of today?
The truth of the New Testament's teaching is that God sees no difference in the rights and privileges of men or women.
The congregations of Christianity have often perverted some of the Scriptures.
Many have tried to teach that women are inferior to men.
I Corinthians 14:34-35
"Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak... And if they learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
This refers to the confusion caused when the women talked out loud to husbands in the midst of sermons. The women of the day were not educated as the men, and often did not understand what the preacher was saying.
In Christianity, the women were being given equality, and were being taught as the men in this new Christian faith.
Paul was only saying that the women should question the husband at home, and not disrupt the service.
I Timothy 2:11-12
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
This passage in Timothy also refers to the same situation as I Corinthians 14:34-35. The women were not to interrupt the sermon with talking out loud to their husbands.
The word "subjection" is from the Greek word
"hupotage" which means "a voluntary yielding in love."
There is a time for women to question their husband about the sermon. In love and respect for the service and for the husband, the wife should voluntarily wait.
They were also not to not argue with the man's interpretation of the sermon during the service.
This in no way lessens her equality, it only emphasizes a restraint of embarrassing a mate in public by flaunting her equality.
It also was to encourage her to respect the sanctity of the service.
This new found freedom in Christianity had now allowed a woman to disagree with her husband.
Sometimes, in a service there was probably a desire of the wife to say - "I told you so!"
She may want to teach her husband something she had learned before he had.
Paul simply instructs the woman not to "usurp authority" over the man, but to silently listen.
The Greek word for "usurp authority" is the word -
"authenteo"
which means "to exercise one's power over..."
In Christianity, the wife does have "power", and she can exercise it to question the husband, and to even teach the husband.
The translators were all men, and questionably translated this Greek word improperly.
A whole different meaning is found in the original word.
It shows that women have an "authority" to speak their mind, and have an opinion different from the husband's.
Paul is not removing the authority from the woman, that Christianity had given her.
No!
Rather he is only saying that she should not exercise that power in the middle of his sermon.
So, the idea that a woman is a 'jezebel' if she corrects, disagrees, preaches to a man, is nonsense.
Mary Magdalene had no such doctrine taught her by the Lord, and she immediately went and was the first preacher of the church age to preach a resurrection message.
Quite an honor.
more 'can you imagines?' to come
