Is the Bible Sexist? Amy Orr-Ewing explores gender questions in scripture
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- Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing tackles this tough question! 🤔
✨ "Genesis 1:27: God created human beings in His image, male and female." 🌟👫
📜 Old Testament: Women like Deborah and Miriam were leaders and prophets! 🏆🔮
📖 New Testament: Women were the first witnesses to Jesus' resurrection! ✝️👩🦱
🙌 Discover how the Bible affirms the value and equality of women.
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Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing, public theologian, author and speaker talks to Ruth Jackson on our No Question Off Limits panels about the knotty issue of women and the Bible. Is the Bible sexist? How did Jesus regard his female friends and followers? What was the role of women at the time when Jesus was on earth? Who were the first eyewitnesses to the birth, death and Resurrection of Christ?
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Did anybody in Biblical even know what the current term "sexist" meant? What will people be writing about our sorry mess in a few hundred years?
They wouldn’t need to know that term for the point to stand. Language and definitions are just tools to describe real things we experience
Amy is very enthusiastic, engaging and a good communicator, but ,to take but one example, Matthew 5 v 31-33 refutes her argument.
1) Whatever the Bible might say is God's position and God can't be immoral, so the question is supposing some alternative source of morality that God would be subject to.
2) Women are indeed given greater worth through God's Word than the world often has in history.
3) We live in a distinctly unusual time where feminism has taken hold of the West's perspective and warped our reading of Scripture.
4) Concluding that, "because the Bible affirms woman's value, there's therefore no role differences between man and woman", is evidence of a false dichotomy and it points to a person's belief that their works make them valuable. Women are not less valuable if they aren't supposed to lead the church or family. Man and woman are made by God to play a role that points to Him. It isn't about you and how great you or your group identity can be.
I find this passage disturbing. Could you please help me understand why God makes this distinction between sons and daughters?
The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period. On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised. Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding." (Lev. 12)
@@petraravn5421 Interesting question. There are different reasons things are considered unclean in the Bible: 1) sinfulness 2) physically harmful 3) ceremonial symbolism. I'd suggest it's number 3. I'm not sure on the symbolism of all the cleanliness laws, but a woman would be unclean during menstrual cycle and so it's possibly just emphasising that point by requiring double when a daughter is born. A son that's born would be circumcised on the 8th day, which is about pointing the people to the inherent sinfulness in their flesh. That flesh needed removing as a symbol. The symbol is ultimately fulfilled in Christ who removes our sinfulness and our inherent sin nature by covering our iniquity and giving us new hearts. So perhaps the double days is the parallel of circumcision but for female newborns. But that's me guessing so feel free to continue researching. I'm sure someone's answered it out there.
Exodus 21
21 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
Eve was created to be Adams 'saviour'
I've never heard that one before
The irony here is humans putting God in the Dock to judge Him by their standards.
And what are their standards?
Just look at history…
There seems to be an obvious rebuttal of this explanation. If the criticism is due to modern day misinterpretation of language, then why did the people of biblical times also interpret God's word to mean that woman was less than man? It certainly can't be a lack of understanding verbal or written Hebrew.
Complaining about first century people not living up to 21st century standards is called presentism.
It's not presentism, applies to always...it just puts women in their rightful place, so far have we removed them from it!
But Christians believe that morality is objective, not relative, so time periods are irrelevant. More importantly, since Christians believe that the Bible is divinely inspired and immutable word of God, the question is referring to God's prescriptive commandments, not merely the standards, practices and cultural norms of the 1st century.
Also, we need to look back and condemn the practices of our past. That's how we learn from our mistakes and make moral progress.
1 Timothy 2: 11-12
A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.
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female disciples and Witness: Yes. but female Church Apostle and Eldership ???? theres no Scriptural precept or prescription. Equality of male and female in the church: Yes
The short answer is yes, is that a bad thing you decide I think men and women are better at specific roles in society and family
Great Content! powerful!
Jesus was saying to Martha, Mary has found rest in me, there's no barrier, and I will not leave her.
Martha was doing a good thing, but there was no salvation in it if you are complaining.
Yes, and also quite a few other things that does not have a place in a humane, rational and intelligent modern society.
I like her vision of the Bible but it's a complete fantasy
is this channel is going full progressive?
Oh cool - we can watch actual gymnastics on one channel and mental gymnastics on this channel!
Eve was clearly the improved model human with the glitches and bugs removed. We can still see the problems in the older model today.
Oh, the irony.. oh the irony
It's why so many guys wish they were "trans" 😂🤡
That's so sexist against men bruh
@@danascully1248 it's god's design, not mine!
The bible is clearly a patriarchal book. Why deny reality? Embrace it.
Embrace? How? the world was different back then. They didn’t have the knowledge, communication, access to information, transportation, technology, and population size we do today.
Much of their society structure is not only not necessarily today but determential.
You sound dumb.
Asking if the bible is sexist whilst defending islam is WILD 😂😂😂
One trillion percent yes. And … what the hell does it matter? It’s just a book chronicling humanity’s struggles to understand the ephemeral. Humanity used to be a lot more sexist than they (perhaps) are now.
What kind of person would even care?
The people who don't want politicians who say "I get my morals from the bible"...which is most politicians in America. So there's work to be done here.
@@FentonMulley-cz8pv So then... who cares if the Bible is sexist?
@@TheAutistocrat do you still not understand? How is what I commented not a good justification for someone being interested in the topic?
@@FentonMulley-cz8pv I don't see an overlap between someone interested in the Bible and being concerned about sexism (i.e. having accurate views about sex and about appropriate roles for the two sexes).
@@TheAutistocrat because the bible dictates views on sex, and it is unfortunaitely held by many people as a good source for this information.
If you're talking about TH-cam viewers, sex and religion are good clickbait topics. I don't get your point either way.
Kinda a little bit off here on some things.
Only the Godless ask these questions! Satan at work we don’t bow to him!
Don't be ridiculous
@@spectraldenouement ridiculous is your response? Intellectualisation of the bible is the biggest issue in our society. Believe or don’t believe that’s on the individual. The bible is the truth for all time, the sudden change in contemporary thinking does not give modern culture who are rebelling against God the right to question God. The clay doesn’t tell the potter what to do!
@@mathewinnes6931 Tell Abraham, Moses, David and Job they aren't allowed to question God. Even the name Israel is supposed to mean "wrestles with God."
@@byrondickens what a garbage response. They wrestled with real issues, not woke semantics like this Godless modern culture. Get your priorities straight!