Cheryl Schatz

Thanks truthseeker for your concern.

What comps do is take their prejudice against women and they teach a view of Eve who sinned before she ate the fruit. Their teaching is that Eve was not only deceived but she distorted the words of God even before sin entered the world and before she stretched out her hand and ate the fruit. Their teaching is flawed and their conclusions that women inherit the spiritual attribute of deception through Eve is completely foreign to the text. Their view has nothing to do with biological differences between men and women, but a *spiritual* difference between men and women.

In contrast, there is no spiritual difference between men and women taught in the scriptures. There is a biological difference shown and supported as something that is truly complementary. Women are the ones shown in scripture as the nurturers. It was the women who were there at the cross when all the men scattered. Women were the ones who were first to the tomb as they were the ones who considered that Jesus should have spices for embalming. This is a nurturing/caring trait that is found in a larger degree in women. This is what makes women biologically suited for the initial bonding process with their children. This is also what makes children generally prefer their mothers when they are hurt. God has placed within women (in general) an abundance of the characteristic of what we call “mothering”.

We also see this in the gospels when the women ministered to Jesus, with some of them supporting him out of their own finances.

The difference again between comps and egals in this area, is the comps use the differences between men and women to claim a lack of full spiritual approval for women. This is an invalid claim and unsupported by scripture. Egals like myself see a difference between men and women as a God ordained purpose for women to supply what is lacking in men alone. In this way of thinking, women are not only equal with men, but they are very much needed to provide balance and wholeness.

Does this make sense?