Kerryn

Thanks Cheryl

well said. No arguments here!

what amazes me is that so many women (even mature female Christians and pastor’s wives that i know well) just ‘take’ what they have been ‘fed’ on this – that women are ‘designed’ by God to be ‘helpers’ for men. a simple word study shows this is absolutely not meant by the Hebrew word “ezer”. rather than being ‘lesser’ assistants to males because of their gender or being more ‘needy’ than men, woman was designed by our Creator to provide ‘help’ than MAN desperately needed. I love that the same word is used of God on multiple occasions saying he is our HELPER (ezer… (cf. Is 41;13; ps 10:14; Ps 28:7; Ps 33:20; Ps 70:5 etc etc). No one claims He is our ‘mere’ assistant, hey?! God is not the ‘needy’ one – we are and he is our ezer (“Helper”).

We sadly lay so much ‘tradition’ on our understanding of Scripture… when it’s just not in the text at all…

HELP us Lord cos we are all needy of you and revelation from the Word…
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kerryn