Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The Bible: Sexism or realism?

I was talking to a young girl around the age of thirteen, I asked her, "Do you read your Bible everyday?" She looked at me then glanced to the ground. "I believe that the Bible is sexiest!" I couldn't help but laugh at the thought of it. She explained that the Bible talks about Jesus' brother (James) and not any of his sisters. And that the Bible never talks about strong queens! Nor much about women at all. Well Sandra...This ones for you! The Bible is not sexiest, to be honest most people don't even know what "sexiest" means. The Bible talks about women, like oh let me see...Abigail, Anna, Bathsheba, Deborah, Dorcas, Elizabeth, Ester, Eve, Eunice, Hannah, Joanna, Lydia, Martha, Mary of Bethany, Miriam, Naaman's Wife's Slave Girl, Naomi, Phoebe, Priscella, Rachel, Ruth, Sarah, and Zipporah. And that is just some of them. She said the Bible never talks about women, hm. I truly wish that people would study the Bible before talking about it. Now lets talk about some of them. Ester was a strong queen. She saved all of her people from death and risked her own life. Can you get any stronger then that? Ester herself said "I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish." Ester 4:16 If the Bible never talks about women then why is there a book of Ruth and the book of Ester? And what is sexism? Is it not a proven fact that men are physically stronger then women? So by stating a FACT you are sexist? So what people are saying is the truth itself it sexist and wrong! I believe that women are made not to be big strong warriors, but to be mothers and wives. (Please note that just because I believe that women should not be warriors that doesn't mean they should not know how to defend themselves). The Bible talks about strong women like Eunice! Most people do not now about her but she was Timothy's mother. She was a Jewish woman who was married to a Greek man. Though her husband most likely didn't share her faith she still taught Timothy about God's love and what a difference it made! (See 2 Timothy 3:15) We as women should serve our husbands and teach our children using the Bible as a textbook! As they say "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world!" (I will follow up on this by posting stories from the Bible about strong women in the Bible)