Greg Anderson

Cheryl and Don, It’s fallen human nature that craves power. The early church of the apostles got hi-jacked by an hierarchical establishment that was interested only in consolidating that power. In the centuries that followed, the organized church caused untold misery and human suffering. The Renaissance offered a brief flurry of human freedom but was soon overshadowed by the bad elements of the Age of Reason. So what’s the point of the history lesson you ask? Simply this. Even the protestant reformation preserved an enforced male hierarchy. Both Luther and Calvin took a dim view of women and were unabashed in writing so. Nowadays, organizations such as the CBMW have toned down the language a bit with assertions that women are “equal in personhood” but separate in “role and function”. I too have listened to their audio materials. You can hear the audiences giggle, nod their heads in total rapt agreement and not once dare to disagree with their leadership or think for themselves. To do so risks censure and accusations of heresy. I think a great deal of it is fear driven, fear of going against the Bible and the apparent strictures of St. Paul with regards to women in the church. The fear feeds on itself just like a hurricane over warm gulf waters. Fear of sinning and that to continue to do so will result in one’s ultimate consignment to hell.