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Adam=Good and apparently Eve=Evil?
EKnight:
Sandyk,
I think Jassy wrote some beautiful things regarding women. And like Mee, I wish my husband would take a little more control over some of our family affairs (and maybe he would if I were not such a control freak). And like ricky said, we are gifts to men and God's natural vessel to the continuation of humanity.
It has been a privilege to be a vehicle for the miracle of natural creation. Giving birth, albeit painful, is to me a shadow of life itself. Suffering gives way to perfection as is God's ultimate purpose/plan.
I understand your concerns in what you've read in the bible concerning women, but this is the carnal mind which cannot conceive the spiritual message and allow us to rest in God. Please don't give up because once you overcome the carnal perception of these spiritual messages, everything else falls into place and you will be uplifted.
Eileen
Marlene:
Eileen for sure wanting to control is a hard one. It is an everyday battle. God, is trying to get it in my head that not everyone wants to hear about the truths I have been led too. So, I am trying to learn not to beat up anyon e with them. Babylon beats everyone up trying to tell them they are going to Hell if they do not believe in God . The try to force them to believe in God. I am learning if God wants to use me he will let me know. But, living in the home and not wanting to share all my joy is hard. Its hard to let go and let God. We have no control over anything. Its all make believe. So, we all have our battles and sharing helps us.
Thanks, Eileen for sharing.
In His Love,
Marlene
gmik:
Last nite I went to see a high school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (I recommend that play!)
Anyhow not to be trite, but a line jumped out and I remembered this thread. Joseph is in jail and doesn't understand but doesn't question God about it and trusts Him...the last line of the song...but I know the answers lie not in this world.
I think that is so Key.....How can we puny beings attempt to vainly think we can understand the workings of the "Ancient of Days"?? He has planned from before the beginning, He sees all the angles and how they weave together and we won't know perfectly until we see Him as He is and We all are all in all.
Of course God loves women! Lets love one another-thats the big job- and don't worry about the small stuff.
No disrespect at all SandyK this thread has been great and I have gotten a lot out of it (I just don't want you to get mad at God and well, you know...)
Linny:
Hi Sandy,
I think you may have been deceived regarding how God feels about us females. I once was myself. But interestingly, I found the coolest writing just YESTERDAY that may have been for you as well!
In one of his articles, this guy talks about just how different God's ways toward women were compared to the culture of the time. He gave many examples from the Bible, OT included. He especially discussed how Jesus broke many cultural rules to show us how much we are loved.
One quick example, "- Local Jewish culture stressed that the place of the woman was about domestic matters rather than spiritual ones. Yet in the incident of Martha and Mary, Christ commended Mary for neglecting her domestic duties in order to concern herself with spiritual development (Lk.10:38-42). She sat at his feet, as if a student at the feet of a rabbi. When we read that Mary sat at the Lord’s feet (Lk. 10:39), it’s easy to forget that to sit at the feet of a Rabbi [and the Lord was called ‘Rabbi’] meant to be a disciple of that Rabbi. And women… couldn’t be disciples of a Rabbi. It was all radical stuff."
If you would be interested in reading over it, just pm me and I will be happy to get it to you. It is on another teaching site so I can't give it here.
By the way, any of you interested can pm me about it.
Blessings,
Lin
Sandyk:
Hi Lin,
I read your reply to my post very enlightening. I would love to read the writing you came across.
Thanks
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