Comments on: There Is No Male and Female (Galatians 3:28) http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/index.php/there-is-no-male-and-female-galatians-328/ A Voice of Reason for the 21st Century Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:07:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joel http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/index.php/there-is-no-male-and-female-galatians-328/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 Joel Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:08:11 +0000 http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/?p=1161#comment-1201 While women played an important role in the establishment of the new kingdom, they did not do so by doing men's jobs.  Mary was not Joseph's husband.  Lydia and Tabitha were not assuming the role of men.  Remember when Paul converted Lydia, the women were meeting outdoors because there weren't enough Jewish men to lawfully build a synagogue.  If those women were assuming the roles of men, why didn't they just build their own synogague, rules or not.  Why weren't Tabitha and Lydia appointed "elders"?  They were among the first converted, right?  The Jewish women in these stories were being women, not men.  Everything that I have ever read in the Bible state that women will be equally rewarded by God if they live good Christian lives.  Unfortunately, today too many men and women want their reward now and don't feel the great reward in the future is worth sacrificing their hedonistic pleasures.   I used to be that way myself.  Once I gave up those fleeting pleasures, I found that I was much happier overall and the sins that I thought were so much fun, weren't worth the regrets or the hangovers.  Now, the thought of doing things that I thought were fun is repulsive. When I see women flaunting such lifestyles I am just as repulsed.   I can't think of a harder , more honorable job that requires a stronger more beautiful person than being a good traditional wife.  Especially now that the whole world says that the "strong traditional wife" is an oxymoron or is morally incompatible with 21st century society.   The removal of male and female roles also directly conflicts with 1 Corinthians 7.   While women played an important role in the establishment of the new kingdom, they did not do so by doing men’s jobs.  Mary was not Joseph’s husband.  Lydia and Tabitha were not assuming the role of men.  Remember when Paul converted Lydia, the women were meeting outdoors because there weren’t enough Jewish men to lawfully build a synagogue.  If those women were assuming the roles of men, why didn’t they just build their own synogague, rules or not.  Why weren’t Tabitha and Lydia appointed “elders”?  They were among the first converted, right?  The Jewish women in these stories were being women, not men.  Everything that I have ever read in the Bible state that women will be equally rewarded by God if they live good Christian lives.  Unfortunately, today too many men and women want their reward now and don’t feel the great reward in the future is worth sacrificing their hedonistic pleasures.
  I used to be that way myself.  Once I gave up those fleeting pleasures, I found that I was much happier overall and the sins that I thought were so much fun, weren’t worth the regrets or the hangovers.  Now, the thought of doing things that I thought were fun is repulsive. When I see women flaunting such lifestyles I am just as repulsed.
  I can’t think of a harder , more honorable job that requires a stronger more beautiful person than being a good traditional wife.  Especially now that the whole world says that the “strong traditional wife” is an oxymoron or is morally incompatible with 21st century society.   The removal of male and female roles also directly conflicts with 1 Corinthians 7.  

]]> By: Joel http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/index.php/there-is-no-male-and-female-galatians-328/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 Joel Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:11:56 +0000 http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/?p=1161#comment-1197 Paul was not trying to tear down the fabric of the family in Galatians 3:28.  He was explaining that now understanding of how God intended the family to be structured would spread to all corners of the Earth.  The rewards for living a Godly life would also follow to all ends of the Earth.  Those who make any other argument than that are probably trying to destroy the family structure that God intended or have been educated by those who have such desires.  We must never let such things be taught from the pulpit. Paul was not trying to tear down the fabric of the family in Galatians 3:28.  He was explaining that now understanding of how God intended the family to be structured would spread to all corners of the Earth.  The rewards for living a Godly life would also follow to all ends of the Earth.  Those who make any other argument than that are probably trying to destroy the family structure that God intended or have been educated by those who have such desires.  We must never let such things be taught from the pulpit.

]]> By: Joe http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/index.php/there-is-no-male-and-female-galatians-328/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 Joe Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:25:48 +0000 http://www.christianmonthlystandard.com/?p=1161#comment-1196 I have heard/read this a couple of times also. This is what happens when a verse is pulled out of context. We certainly see a lot of  twisting the Scriptures today, does not matter if they are easy or hard to understand it seems. I'm reminded of 2 Peter 3:15-16 "...Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures." I have heard/read this a couple of times also.

This is what happens when a verse is pulled out of context. We certainly see a lot of  twisting the Scriptures today, does not matter if they are easy or hard to understand it seems.

I’m reminded of 2 Peter 3:15-16
“…Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.”

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