{"id":2135,"date":"2017-03-23T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndturner.com\/gracePlus\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2018-12-23T18:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T01:15:59","slug":"misogyny-phobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndturner.com\/gracePlus\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"Misogyny Phobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would like to respond to this<\/a> article from Biblical Archaeology Review and the confused culture from which it came.\u00a0 Like many BAR articles I\u2019m not sure what the point is, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not Biblical.\u00a0 This article borrows from an article by Christopher somebody, the newest version of which is something about the Nineteenth Amendment.<\/p>\n

\"misogyny\"<\/a>

Oh my.<\/p><\/div>\n

I don\u2019t really care to get into or to read that article, other than to say this;\u00a0 The Nineteenth Amendment didn\u2019t give women the right to vote it took away the right of the family vote.\u00a0 The founders and most peoples throughout time, saw the family as the fundamental political unit.\u00a0 Originally only heads of household voted.\u00a0 Which required a household, so only landowners could vote.\u00a0 It is the basic principle that responsibility and authority go hand and hand.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t work when the people in authority don\u2019t have to take responsibility for their decisions in the event that things come crashing down.\u00a0 This is how much of our bloated federal system operates today.\u00a0 The rancher in Montana is responsible for his cattle.\u00a0 He can see that introducing wolves to the area will be harmful to those cattle.\u00a0 But he no longer has the authority to decide what happens on his land, that is left to some bureaucracy in DC.\u00a0 To them it sounds like a nice romantic idea. Why not?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t really affect them.\u00a0 Meanwhile the rancher is left with the real consequences on the ground, dead animals, and the cost of meat goes up for everyone.\u00a0 As this applies to men and women and the family, I will discuss later.<\/p>\n

The Nineteenth Amendment is very similar to the Seventeenth Amendment which governs the election of U.S. Senators.\u00a0 Under the auspices of giving the people more rights, it really enslaves them.\u00a0 Originally U.S. Senators were chosen by the State Legislators, but the seventeenth amendment changed that into a direct, popular election.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s far easier to buy a Senator, you only have to pick one election and dump a bunch of money into it.\u00a0 Under the old system, you would have had to mess with every single local, state and house election.\u00a0 The people didn\u2019t gain the right to vote for Senators, the States lost that power.\u00a0 Because direct Democracy can be another form of tyranny, mob rule.\u00a0 It often devours the very freedom it claims to give, by play on reactionary impulses.<\/p>\n

I would argue that similar deception has taken place by removing the vote from the family, as executed by it\u2019s head the husband.\u00a0 Consider the Presidential elections. Since full suffrage became the zeitgeist of the people in 1920, the vote of women didn\u2019t really make that much difference.\u00a0 Now your wife can invalidate your vote, and call it freedom, big deal.\u00a0 It is difficult to measure the result of the women\u2019s vote but it looks like the election of Bill Clinton was the first where their influence was really felt.\u00a0 The men were mostly divided and the women pushed Clinton over the line.\u00a0 I find this ironic.\u00a0 Women exercising their \u2018freedom\u2019 vote for a man with a history of abusing women.\u00a0 We now have a system where the same techniques which once got you in women\u2019s pants now gets you in office.\u00a0 Since then women have favored the Democrat candidates.\u00a0 Men sick of everything being about manipulation and polls drive politics and went for the decent guy, George W. Bush.\u00a0 But then came Obama vs. McCain.\u00a0 The men were again divided and it is clear that women elected Obama.\u00a0 Which again, is sick.\u00a0 This is the first president on record advocating infanticide, the killing of children outside the womb.\u00a0 This can be nothing other than deception.\u00a0 The emotions of women were twisted t support the biggest genocide the world has ever known, abortion, by calling it \u2018choice\u2019.\u00a0 It reminds me of the wisdom of Paul speaking to Timothy \u201cAdam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.\u201d\u00a0 (I Timothy 2:14)<\/p>\n

But you aren\u2019t allowed to say that anymore, even in many churches.\u00a0 Which goes to the source of authority.\u00a0 Who is your god?\u00a0 Do you really believe and follow the One True God of Scripture, or do you follow a false god, an idol?\u00a0 Sadly many today have chose another god, such as feminism or another form of humanism.\u00a0 Everyone is doing it, so it becomes easy.\u00a0 But we are slowly undermining everything our civilization is build upon.\u00a0 Families are falling apart and they are the foundation of society.\u00a0 And these false gods demand that we go back and tell history their way.\u00a0 They demand that we look at scripture their way.\u00a0 And the church has been doing that more and more, including this article.<\/p>\n

Noah\u2019s wife and his sisters-in law were not named?\u00a0 I love this claim.\u00a0 So we are suddenly demanding more detailed genealogies?\u00a0 The one part everyone skips when reading the Bible?\u00a0 And if you had actually read the genealogies or the rest of the text you might learn that the narrative purpose is not to infer that everyone unnamed is evil or worthless.\u00a0 Noah was named, and it is also detailed how he got drunk and laid around naked.\u00a0 Later he cursed his grandson for the sake of his son Ham who was also named.\u00a0 If you want to enter the cage match, you might gain the glory of a victory, but you also might get yourself beat to a bloody pulp.\u00a0 We pride ourselves on being real and raw these days.\u00a0 Well we all have sin and those sins are laid bare by the scripture.\u00a0 But the scriptural tradition of truly caring for women is to exempt them from many of these responsibilities.<\/p>\n

The Ten Commandments also supposedly hate women because Exodus 20:17 puts wives next to servants and animals in a list of things you should not covet.\u00a0 Well verse ten puts men on a list with women, sons and daughters, servants and animals.\u00a0 So clearly everyone is hated by the Ten Commandments.\u00a0 If women were just abused and kept in the basement how and why would you covet them?\u00a0 Oh and also the purpose is to stop covetousness , not to bash women, which actually protects women.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just pine away for a beautiful wife, get off your butt go and work hard, that you may care for your own wife.\u00a0 Which is clearly the message of the rest of the Old Testament Law. \u00a0 Clearly the command applies to everyone, and the fact that you can\u2019t make the jump from \u201cmen don\u2019t covet your neighbor\u2019s wife\u201d to \u201cwomen don\u2019t covet your neighbor\u2019s husband\u201d is just indicative that you are a narrow-minded feminist.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:28-29, supposedly forces women to marry their rapists. \u00a0 Which clearly ignores Exodus 22:16, which says that it is up to the discretion of the father.\u00a0 And if you assume the father didn\u2019t consider the wishes of his daughter, again you are assuming the worst.\u00a0 The point of both of these verses shows a compassion from women.\u00a0 First of all they are highly valued, unlike later pagan systems which required brides to include a dowry.\u00a0 In the Old Testament suitors had to pay a bride price.\u00a0 Second the point of the penalty is to discourage rape in the first place.\u00a0 Beware of the one night stand, she might be your wife forever and you can never divorce her.\u00a0 You must pay the bride price and take care of her as she ought to be for the rest of her life(Exodus 21:10).\u00a0 How is our system of hating the Old Testament working out?\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, women are passed around as sex toys, their unborn children are slaughtered by the thousands, the emotional damage of constant relationships formed and broken is immeasurable.\u00a0 And we think we are free.\u00a0 The bonds of sex are very powerful, which is why virginity is so highly prized by every society but our own.\u00a0 Women are beautifully designed to come along side and bond to one man.\u00a0 Research has shown that this happens physiologically from a mere 15 seconds of contact.\u00a0 The Old Testament wins this one too, and we lose.<\/p>\n

It is stunning that you can read the Old Testament and conclude that it speaks highly of polygamy.\u00a0 So the fact that Cain\u2019s son became a polygamist is supposed to be a glaringly positive review of polygamy?\u00a0 We all know Cain is the hero of the story.\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 Clearly the Cain thread of the narrative is in stark contradiction to the Created order.\u00a0 God made them male and female and then things went off the rails.\u00a0 The narrative traces the world vs. the people of God.\u00a0 Hint: Cain is the \u2018world\u2019 and killing his brother made him the bad guy.\u00a0 The line of God\u2019s people continues through Seth.\u00a0 And David\u2019s wives are supposed to be further proof that the Bible glorifies polygamy, despite that the kings of Israel were prohibited from amassing wives(Deuteronomy 17:17).\u00a0 Also let\u2019s consider the results of those polygamous marriages.\u00a0 The result of Abraham\u2019s polygamy is two warring nations which fight over Jerusalem to this day.\u00a0 David destroyed his house, but for the grace of god, by stealing Bathsheba. Solomon was led into idolatry by his many foreign wives. In addition the kingdom was split by these waring heirs.\u00a0 Polygamy like divorce was made provision for by God\u2019s grace for hard hearts(Matthew 19:7).\u00a0 And as I mentioned above the rights of the multiplied wives was not to be diminished.\u00a0 Which is also the point of Deuteronomy 21:15, you can\u2019t give up the first born rights of one wife because you like another wife more.\u00a0 You must care for them and give all your wives their due.<\/p>\n

Numbers 30:3-15 states the rules for how a women\u2019s vow could be vetoed by her father or her husband.\u00a0 Vows are a much more serious thing than we consider these days.\u00a0 If you get mad and say \u201cI swear to God, if you do that I\u2019m going to hurt you.\u201d and then you didn\u2019t follow through, that would be breaking your vow which was serious.\u00a0 Verse 6 says \u201cthoughtless utterance\u201d\u00a0 which gives us the proper idea here.\u00a0 But rather than speaking ill of women or repressing them this\u00a0 frees them from the responsibility of the consequences of such oaths.\u00a0 They fall on her husband or father, which is why they have the right to veto them.\u00a0 Consider the story of Jeptha in Judges 11.\u00a0 He promised God that the first thing that came out to greet him after a mighty victory he would sacrifice to God.\u00a0 His only daughter came out to meet him.\u00a0 Which meant she was a perpetual virgin, and his posterity was cut off.\u00a0 His rash vow was his undoing.\u00a0 Women are spared from such things, \u201cthe Lord will forgive her\u201d as the text says multiple times.<\/p>\n

Of course the Levite priesthood was all male, that is the authority structure which God created on this earth(Leviticus).\u00a0 But we have to get away from the idea that position is all about worth<\/i> or hate<\/i>.\u00a0 Our strict egalitarianism seems to think that equality means equality in absolutely every way about everything.\u00a0 This is not true, differing roles does not speak to worth.\u00a0 Women can have kids, men can not, does this make women better?\u00a0 The general on the battlefield wears distinctive clothing distinguishing himself from the average foot soldier.\u00a0 He may even ride a horse above all the men, in a superior position. But it doesn\u2019t mean his worth as a human is more than his men, no one thinks that.\u00a0 Does anyone think this makes him stronger or smarter in every way?\u00a0 His authority is greater, but so is his responsibility.\u00a0 He is responsible for all of his men.\u00a0 But he is not chosen because his superiors hate everyone else.\u00a0 Someone has to lead, someone had to yell the battle cry to \u201ccharge\u201d.\u00a0 God says those people are to be men, and we have yet to come up with a better system, as we now bring home our mutilated women from the battle field and claim our superior love of women.\u00a0 Or perhaps they are not maimed but merely shipped home pregnant or exploited on the internet by their male \u2018peers\u2019.\u00a0 The result is the same dishonored women.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago this article would be unthinkable, insofar as it is unthinking.\u00a0 This paranoid fear of misogyny is everywhere and it is making people crazy.\u00a0 It substitutes vague feelings for actual arguments, to feed it\u2019s nonsense.\u00a0 But if sin made sense it wouldn’t everyone be sin.\u00a0 Hating God is as old as the hills and many people will do whatever they can to pretend their way is better than God\u2019s way.\u00a0 It\u2019s just unfortunate that so many of those people claim to be Christians and that so many well-meaning Christians fall for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would like to respond to this article from Biblical Archaeology Review and the confused culture from which it came.\u00a0 Like many BAR articles I\u2019m not sure what the point is, but I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not Biblical.\u00a0 This article borrows from an article by Christopher somebody, the newest version of which is something about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t