Suzanne

Greg,

I don’t think there is any point in saying things about other people on the internet.

On the other hand, if someone writes a book in order to subordinate women, I’ll take every sentence apart in public. Here is one that is really worth thinking about.

“Recently some writers have denied that the creation of Eve as a helper fit for Adam signals any difference in role or authority, because the word helper (Heb. ezer) is often used in the Old Testament of someone who is greater or more powerful than the one who is being helped. In fact, the word helper is used in the Old Testament of God himself who helps his people. But the point is that whenever someone “helps” someone else, whether in the Hebrew Old Testament or our modern day use of the word help, in the specific task in view the person who is helping is occupying a subordinate or inferior position with regard to the person being helped.”

Then he goes on to quote Cline who says about God and anyone who helps,

“… in the act of helping they are being “inferior”

This is on page 461 and 462 of Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem and is available through books.google.com

There is no doubt that this book clearly teaches that in helping man, God is “inferior” to man. Don’t ask me how this book ever got published. Please will someone just take this apart.