(October 20, 2012 at 3:44 pm)Brian37 Wrote:Quote:Oddly, although it was ahead of its time in terms of gender equality,Where do you get that from? The bible is just as sexist as any holy book. Eve from the begining is scapegoated in a trap that God set for her. She is a prop and the story is to subjugate women. And all they say about Masry is that she poped out a kid and said thank you, and then said some stuff at the cross, but nothing inbetween. She is merely a prop.
Gender equality happend, in spite of Christianity, not because of it. But the rest of your post does not surprise me at all.
Actually it's really the Jewish who were the pioneers of more-or-less (ok less) gender equality. It seems extreme now, but the views about the treatment of women were actually liberal compared to the cultures around them....even say when the Egyptians had female rulers, it was recorded as being against their wishes. The only culture I really notice treating women with more respect at the time in the Middle East were the Persians.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
