The Persecution of Women in the Church

Originally Posted by The Mrs

I guess we all read it with different perspectives. I think it was the global view and the historical view that intrigued me.

I just found it an interesting topic. I'd never really thought of the fact that the denigration of women throughout the ages could have come from the fact that it was satan's intentions and plan all along.

It was and still is honey...he's after the life force. Destroy the seed, you destroy the harvest.

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

Aunty,

There is a book out that a lot of people have read called The DaVinci Code.

It talks a lot about "the sacred feminine" and how the "Church" has been dominated by men and glorification of masculinity. This is a popular trend in our modern pop culture and psuedo-intelligentsia.

It used to be called moon worship or goddess worship. Ashtaroth was an example of it for you Bible scholars.

This stuff about how embattled women are above and beyond all other targets of Satan, and this huge emphasis on the feminine is just the latest manifestation of that influence showing up in the thinking of some religious people.

This is nothing new.It is an old, old spirit that shows up every so many generations with a new dress and a facelift.

bump

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by crazyhomie

It was and still is honey...he's after the life force. Destroy the seed, you destroy the harvest.

"The life force..."

You are using some pretty loaded language.

Sounds eerily familiar.

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

There is only one church as far as the Scripture is concerned...of course, I have no idea whether those particular passages are in whatever books or chapters or verses you acknowledge as Holy Writ.

So when you title the thread like you did, what were we supposed to assume?

Not some local assembly, but the Apostolic church.

This is an Apostolic forum.

Read the rules. That is the assumed paradigm of posters here.

Had you titled it, "the Persecution of Women through the Ages Around the World by Various Entities Including Some Religions," it would have been another matter.

ROTFL...to long of a title, who would have responded to that? There is a certain level of marketing involved you know...

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

"The life force..."

You are using some pretty loaded language.

Sounds eerily familiar.

You watched one too many episodes of "star wars"...

[Coonskinner]

Folks, I am convinced we are dealing with some New Age Goddess Worship/Sacred Feminine influenced thinking here.

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by crazyhomie

You watched one too many episodes of "star wars"...

I haven't watched any episodes of Star Wars.

That's not the "force" I'm thinking of.

Nice attempted deflection though. Very smooth. A lot more people would be familiar with the Star Wars reference than with some of the philosophers and other sources for this particular line of thinking you are wrapping in Scriptural terminology and "marketing."

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

Folks, I am convinced we are dealing with some New Age Goddess Worship/Sacred Feminine influenced thinking here.

My sisters did make me wash dishes when I was growning up. Does that count?

[The Mrs]

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

Was this something that the Scripture proscribed?

Or was it something added by the priests, like the Talmudic laws?

Refresh my memory.

If it was Scripture, it was God's design.

If not, it was man's.

So what is the point either way?

It was just a question...I was just curious. I guess I'll have to go study up on it to be able to answer YOUR questions.

Seems like the examples in scripture throughout the OT show that women weren't exactly treated as they are nowadays. i.e. polygamus marriages, no inheritance, arranged marriages, separation in the tabernacle. Were those things instructed by God? Or just a part of the culture of man?

[Subdued]

Originally Posted by Felicity

That is the dictionary definition but not the way we normally think of persecution. Don't you think?

Originally Posted by Barb

But again, is denegration and discrimination by some persecution by the Chruch?! In my humble and uneducated opinion, no...

How about the Biblical definition?

G1377
διώκω
diōkō
dee-o'-ko
A prolonged (and causative) form of a primary verb δίωdiō (to flee; compare the base of G1169 and G1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication to persecute: - ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute (-ion), press toward.