Mara

gengwall: “and Deborah? She was an anomaly.
and Esther? She knew her place.
and Rahab? She doesn’t count because of her vocation.
and the Proverbs 31 woman? Aw, she was just a sweet little homemaker.
and Priscilla? Well, she was not in “church”.
and Phoebe? Don’t you know that Greek words like diakonos and prostatis mean subservient things when applied to women?
and Junia? Wasn’t she a man? Oh no, now I remember, the apostles thought she was a-okay!
and Mary, Mary, Joanna, and the other women? They just happened to be the ones who saw Jesus first. It’s was coincidence. And what they did was no big deal.”

You know, I started a blog about this sort of attack on Bible women. I’m not recommending it because I never got past the first post. Too much to do and no time to do it in. The name of the blog was “Why this attack?”

You get used to preachers attacking Deborah and start learning to let it go in one ear and out the other. Deborah was a tough cookie. She knew her God and was strong and did exploits before Daniel uttered those words. I’d hate to see her in a cage match with any one of the preachers who feel free to not only bash her, but they also bash all the men of her time.

So it wasn’t the attack on Deborah that made me think of starting a blog about this hatred of actual, Biblical women… i.e. women in the Bible, not to be confused with the biblical womanhood pablum being passed off as sound doctrine.

Nor was it the attack on Dinah or Tamar. These Biblical women bashers don’t mind kicking a Bible woman when she was down. Both these women are blamed for their rapes. They weren’t displaying biblical womanhood to the degree these preachers thought needed. If they were, they would have never been raped. (Anyone smell a Taliban?)

Actually, it was the attack on Abigail that inspired me to start that blog. It made me realize that these preachers with their agenda know no bounds. Any woman mention in the Bible is fair game by virture of her gender. These preachers consider any Bible women suspect and will turn up and make up anything they can think of because they are intent on bashing women.

What dirt could they possibly have on Abigail.
Well, I read where Gothard holds Abigail responsible for the death of her husband Nabel because of her ‘scheming’ and ‘betrayal’.
How he got that from the Bible, I don’t know. But he didn’t get it honestly.

He, and these other preachers, have deep-seated, unresolved issues with women. They need to get healed so they stop these unrightous attacks they carry out on true Biblical women.

Sorry. Another rant.