The Bible is Clear: Women are Inferior

The hand wringing continues about what to do about declining church membership. One solution is to stop referring to the Bible as the faith's authority. Most women, and hopefully most men, will no longer put up with the restrictions placed on women in the Bible.

In 1 Timothy the Bible explains how sinful Eve was. She defied God's instructions about eating the apple and then persuaded Adam to sin. Timothy explains all women are responsible for this sin but have a path out.  It is to have children.

This explains why here on the blog when I advocate for gender equality I hear from the faithful I do not understand that God made differences in men and women. When I press for the difference I learn the difference is that women can have babies. This makes them unable to be Catholic priests and preachers in some Protestant groups. It is stated clearly in 1 Timothy women are not to have authority over men.

I have heard it explained the reason there are not women priests or preachers is that the 12 disciples were all men. If there were disciples and a Jesus, we have no independent historical source confirming they were all men. Those men who wrote the New Testament did not want women in authority so they went out of their way to find excuses to exclude them. It did, no doubt, reflect the male culture of that time.

Timothy also has rules for how women are to dress and wear their hair. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess why there are no rules on how men dress and wear their hair.

While there are more women active in churches than men, they also are leaving. If churches were smart they would immediately drop all this business that women are inferior and apologize just as some are now doing for their advocacy of slavery and segregation.


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