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Originally Posted by Hopey
FFS...the Roman Catholic church does not permit women to become priests, or to hold any kind of power within the organization. This has been going on for 2000 years. There are no female bishops, cardinals, and last time I checked, there's never been a female pope.
This church has hundreds of millions of followers. So don't act like we're just focusing on some fringe elements of Christianity when we make arguments that the church is chauvinistic.
It's really the fringe Christian groups who are the groups who are less chauvinist. Mainstream Christianity is inherently chauvinistic. Only a complete idiot would argue otherwise.
Well I believe "chauvinism" is the aberrant form of that headship that God gives to men.
But God gives it. God gives it so God can take it away and give it elsewhere any time he wants.
Hebrews 5:4 "But no one can have the honor of being a high priest simply by wanting to be one.
Only God can choose a priest, and God is the one who chose Aaron."
There are many prophets in the bible who are women. IIRC the Judaism 101 site says more women were prophets than men.
Also who do you think brings up the children? Both male and female.
John Wesley was brought up by a God fearing mother of 13 children.
In general men are church leaders but men don't tell God. God can make an exception. That is what the spirit is all about
: making exceptions.
If you study the law (please pick up a legal periodical with some title law some time) you will see the law is given then the specific exceptions to each general law are given. But in real life there are so many exceptions that the law obviously can't account for every exception or even every misapplication. That's why people go to court. To argue over and rectify injustices and what they think are violations of the "spirit of the law".
Only unbelievers are still under the law and the law is impossible to keep. Unbelief keeps you under the law.
Believers are under the Spirit.
Last edited by Splendour; 02-06-2010 at 11:47 AM.