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This of course is now way off topic, save for the truth that Patriarchy was part of the dominant culture in the milieu in which the scriptures were written, so it was just what it was and needed no explanation or justification, and just got written into the text. They didn't hang a question mark over it and ask why, it was just the accepted order of things.
Has the "order of things" changed, or is it just us that has changed? And I am not referring to the good kind of change, as in repentance from sin.
Back to the Woman at the Well. Jesus said, "Go, call your husband, and come here." He knew she did not have one, but still He asked. Was that just "written into the text" because "patriarchy was part of the dominate culture". The writer was not actually there with Jesus and the woman. So, maybe the writer is biased and just wrote that in the story. Well now, if we go that direction then nothing in the Bible is believable. So, we go back to believing Jesus actually said that. I find it hard to believe that Jesus said things merely because it was conventional. That would mean that He gave into peer pressure. And that goes against our belief that He is the spotless lamb and Divine. Additionally, we have example after example of Him going against convention. So why did He ask? It mattered. Now we want to imagine that it no longer matters. Now, suddenly head of household no longer matters. It is a thing that belongs in the tombs, a "relic"?
Now, I am not attacking any person here. But, I will be critical of certain human made systems of thought. Feminist and egalitarianist type thinking skips over certain things - what Jesus said to the woman at the well, how God had Adam name the animals without the woman, and how God called out to Adam, "the man", when God found them hiding in the garden after they sinned. I could go on and on with examples. These things do not fit in their paradigm.
Indeed, there are many scriptures that lift up women. Things we should all obey, abide. But feminist & egalitarianist type thinking takes all those instances, melts them down, and forms a golden calf with them. For them, the things in scripture that do not bow down to this golden calf they made they try to "kill, steal, and destroy". This is how they do it:
1.) Set the disagreeable things (like patriarchy) aside, leave them in the by-gone era where thy belong as they are nothing more than biases and we should leave these "relics" in the tombs of the past - KILL
2.) Re-interrupt sacred texts with our new understanding of this and that. After all, we now understand ancient Greek better than the early church fathers and even those that wrote the sacred texts. And we understand things better than they did because our culture is so much more refined, well without slavery and our sophisticated inclusion of sodomites, and all - STEAL
3.) Tear down, dismantle the old paradigms and make room for new ones, well just ours actually - DESTROY
That's their religious practice, or modus operandi.
Obviously, like it or not, this eventually allows for accepting and blessing of gay pride...and beyond. This is why I previously compared gay pride to the demon named Legion. Legion possessed the tomb dweller. Gay pride possesses tomb dwellers too.
Like it or not, feminist and egalitarianist type thinking tolerates or opens the door for gay pride, I would say is even possessed by it. And more. Even though by today's standards it would be considered bullying or some type of toxic masculinity, patriarchy as God intends it does NOT tolerate gay pride.
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