PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 6 ******* One of the defects of human nature is to look down on others so that we feel better about ourselves. The treatment of females in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia is obviously deplorable. But do Western men, at least in part, look down upon the developing nations’ …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 5 ******* If we are to accept the masculine and feminine nature of God as discussed in Chapters 2, 3, and 5, then the degree to which a society or culture grasps the nature of Deity can be measured in part by the degree to which that society or …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 4 ******* Human nature resists change. This resistance to change is perhaps one of humanity’s greatest weaknesses. Furthermore, one of the great ironies of humanity is that erroneous beliefs are often prolonged by superstitions, by misunderstandings, and, sometimes, by arrogance embodied in human institutions that claim to be the …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 3 ******* Not everyone is like Alabama’s former Governor George Wallace, who first stood for segregation, even standing up to the Federal Government, but who later accepted integration, even becoming a champion of jobs for blacks. With knowledge running to and fro at an ever-increasing rate, with communications uniting …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 2 ******* Outside the spiritual realm, perhaps the one major constant of our modern age is change. This change awakens new truths in our thought. We then synthesize them with the proven ones of the past to bring humanity closer to Truth. With this process, humanity becomes less shackled. …
Paul’s Teachings about Women, Epilogue, Part 1 ******* Outside the spiritual realm, perhaps the one major constant of our modern age is change. This change awakens new truths in our thought. We then synthesize them with the proven ones of the past to bring humanity closer to Truth. With this process, humanity becomes less shackled. …
Paul’s Teachings about Women, Part 7 ******* Specific women mentioned in Acts: Lydia, Damaris, Euodias, and Syntyche ******* Specific women mentioned in Romans: Priscilla, Aquila, and Phebe ******* When it comes to reading about women in the New Testament, one cannot always take as gospel the words on the printed page because they may be …
Gender Equality References, Part III ******* Humans in the tabernacle of God with men in the latter days must reflect the divine in a gender-equality society, the qualities of both masculine and feminine equally valued in each individual. A few years ago, an attorney friend sent an email with an attached article about so many …
ST. PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 6 ******* In addition, as we can see from the many examples at the end of this chapter, Paul named many women who were leaders in his churches. He even honored a married couple, Priscilla and Aquilla, mentioning her name first, a sign that she probably was the greater …
GENDER EQUALITY REFERENCES, Part II ******* The Tabernacle of God with men in the latter days must live gender-equal ideals among humankind. Jesus demonstrated how to live a life reflecting equality of the sexes. Some religious convictions result in unconditional acceptance of false ideas from scholastic theology, which is a mixture of pagan philosophy and …
ST. PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 5 ******* Paul wrote, “There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). But we must also acknowledge the challenge Paul had in building a Church from two cultures, Hebrew and Greek, both of which were based on hard-core dominance by men. …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 4 ******* A PBS program says that all three monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—teach men and women to “love a spouse the way God loves us.” However, today an examination of actuality shows that some men don’t necessarily follow this teaching. Patriarchy contradicts all three faiths, substituting Aristotle’s commanding and …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 3 ******* To get a clear picture of Paul’s thought, let’s start with a passage that did not get mistranslated: “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” (Galatians 3:28). The message …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 2 ******* The purpose of this chapter is to examine what Paul wrote about men and women. To do this, we will have to remove the Aristotelian translating filter to find the Pauline thought in the epistles he did pen or dictate and also to separate the epistles that Paul …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, PART 1 ******* The Apostolic Church began with a continuation of Christ Jesus’ exoneration of women. Men and women prayed together, as when they prayed “with one accord” to be led of God in choosing a replacement for Judas, the traitor (Acts 1:14+). “Multitudes both of men and women” were accepted …
GOD is SPIRIT, Part 2 ******* As mentioned before, Wisdom in the Old Testament was discussed as feminine, even as a feminine personification. And Wisdom (sometimes also called by the name Sophia, derived from the Greek word for Wisdom) was associated with Spirit, often also considered to be feminine.[i] Thus Spirit, based upon both ancient …
GOD is SPIRIT, Part 1 ******* God Is Infinite Spirit ******* Besides the names God and Lord God, perhaps Spirit is the next most frequently mentioned name for God in the Scriptures. It appears about forty times in the Old Testament, often as Spirit of God or Spirit of the Lord, with Spirit either capitalized …
GOD is TRUTH, Part 2 ******* So how does what these men of authority who have written about God as Truth relate to how we view women? ******* Thomas Aquinas, for the most part, was brilliant in expressing theology, but his views of women were contaminated by ancient Greek mythology, especially, Aristotle’s works. He began …
GOD is TRUTH, Part 1 ******* God as absolute Truth references throughout Championing Womanhood ******* Athanasius (298? – 373), Bishop of Alexandria — Defence Before Constantius, the divine referred to as Truth. St. Basil the Great (329? – 379), Archbishop of Caesarea — “He is Himself truth….” St. Augustine (354-430) — Confessions. God being …
GOD is MIND, Part 2 ******* We continue with how this understanding of God as Mind affects our view of women: So if God is divine Mind, is Deity masculine, feminine, or both? Today, those in the West who need not subjugate women to psychologically justify their own self-worth recognize that women can think as …
GOD is MIND, Part 1 ******* Let us examine from Chapter 5 several names for God as they have developed over the millenniums and how they have been interpreted. God as Divine Mind … Over the centuries of the Christian era, a number of both Catholic and Protestant theologians and literacy scholars have addressed Deity …
GOD is LIFE Part 2 ******* Ages ago women were honored as the source of life. But with the coming of patriarchy, men were thought to be the only contributors to the fetus’ life and thus Life itself must also be only masculine. And the image and likeness of this male Life must be men …
GOD is ETERNAL LIFE, Part 1 ******* Plotinus — Definition of Eternity would be that it is a life limitless in the full sense of being all the life there is … To the notion of a Life (a Living-Principle) … Life is instantaneously infinite. ******* St. Augustine — Confessions “Thou Thyself art supremely Essence …
GOD is LOVE, Part 2. Today the biblical words “God is Love” are carved into or painted on the walls of many Christian churches and Sunday schools. Men in the past have tried to usurp “God is Love” as being totally masculine, but there can be no denying this name for Deity as …
GOD is LOVE, Part 1. God is Divine Love. Gregory of Nyssa (331?-394?), a Greek father of the church — On the Making of Man after identifying God as Mind wrote, “Again, God is love, and the fount of love. John Cassian (4th-5th century), a reclusive religious writer — …
GOD is SOUL. Elohim not only has had to face down the idea of an anthropomorphic god. A pantheistic Greek philosophical god evolved known by the expression, “God is the soul of the world.” Marcus Varro (116-27? BCE), a Roman scholar and writer, along with others, brought this philosophy to Rome. (Chapter …
Introduction to the Understanding God Series. We are now beginning a series of ideas from Chapter 5 on understanding God. We will look at where many very meaningful names for God have been explored. These ideas have developed over the millenniums. First, we will look at who amongst the many …
The process has begun for publishing the Second Edition of Fluctuating Equality Imposed on Women with edits and a new title. This title seems too general, somewhat confusing, and does not reveal the unfolding of ideas that go beyond just historical perspectives. This new title reveals the foundation of the book with the combined deeper …
Another interesting development in the growing realization of the equality of women is the growing number of women in the clergy. For example, we have a quote from Dr. Dermott’s book Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies: “…the Church of Sweden and the Church of Norway have accepted and now practice gender equality; … at last …
As previously mentioned: There are 36 references to women and their rights in Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies. “There appears to be an additional side blessing related to the 1335-year prophecy other than that directly focused on the Second Coming. …many women during World War II, replacing the men shipped overseas, had built U.S. bombers …