25 Greg Anderson,

Aside from the essentials which are spelled out clearly in the Apostle’s creed, what other doctrines in addition to patriarchy have been manufactured out of the thin air between the pages of the Bible?

Oh boy, Greg, are there a lot of sub-patriarchy additions that have been added to the scriptures. I believe CBMW has produced a “Christian Talmud” to deal with the ever increasing additions. No longer do many of these men look to the Bible for the answers because the foundation is not solid enough to hold even a fraction of the answers from scripture alone. It is only when they lay down the view of a “male bias” and realize that men and women are both made spiritually equal as joint heirs with Christ, can they stop asking such silly questions as “Can a woman be an usher and pass the offering plate from front to back instead of just from left to right?”