Paula

I wrote a little somethin’ about the “emasculated” church a while back (Here).

Really, it all comes from a complete misunderstanding of how we relate to God. Even I, as a woman, cringe at the “lover” idea as being thinly-veiled sexuality, and that’s not anything near the relationship I have with Jesus. It is to be from one soul to another, a close friendship. And close friendships can and do exist between males and females without any sexual component. Those of us women who have worked along side men know this to be true.

So it seems to me that the problem lies with those who impose that sexual component. Why are they so obsessed with it? Why can’t they imagine that relationships of friendship exist between men and women? It is that very separation which widens the gap and makes such friendships impossible. I can only conclude that the men who promote this are so weak and sexually confused that they cannot tolerate any contact with women on anything but a sexual plane.

Jesus said “If YOUR eye CAUSES YOU TO SIN…”; he did NOT say “If someone you saw causes you to sin…”. The sin is “in the eye of the beholder”; the men who always see women as sexual objects are the ones with the problem.