Thursday, May 4, 2023

So

 


while were still talking bout the woman who anointed Christ?


Luke 7:39

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.


Consider:


How Jesus Viewed and Valued Women


(Trust me pastor Bridgette can tell ya all about it :-).

Promise. :-).

Anyway(s) lol...)


"Three Clear Examples

"Examples of this even-handed treatment of women by Jesus are found in the four Gospels".


First, Jesus regularly addressed women directly while in public. This was unusual for a man to do (John 4:27). The disciples were amazed to see Jesus talking with the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar (John 4:7-26). He also spoke freely with the woman taken in adultery (John 8:10–11).6 Luke, who gives ample attention to women in his Gospel, notes that Jesus spoke publicly with the widow of Nain (Luke 7:12–13), the woman with the bleeding disorder (Luke 8:48; cf. Matt. 9:22; Mark 5:34), and a woman who called to him from a crowd (Luke 11:27–28). Similarly, Jesus addressed a woman bent over for eighteen years (Luke 13:12) and a group of women on the route to the cross (Luke 23:27-31)."


Christ gave moral agency to women. It was revolutionary. People today just can not appreciate just how much it was so.  Nobody else had done it before. It's a pretty good case to present to an inquiring female non-believer. 


And if your gonna go all:


First Corinthians 14:33–35 

As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church”

and:

1 Timothy 2:11–12

 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

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Then please mention the first were instructions for worship directed at specific people at specific time and place and if you read the verse before and after 1 Timothy 2:11–12, it can  clearly be seen this wasn't an absolute command for women to be silent in all worship.


So yeah

Christ gave moral agency to women.

Pretty good point to bring up to an inquiring female nonbeliever.


God likes both parts of his divinity.

Male and female.


It's why he created both.


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