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1. How do we find a balance between equality to all genders and fulfilling our roles as female or male?
2. If women are equal to men, but were just given different roles, why are there so may limitations to what women can do and what they can't do?
3. Where is the equality in woman's role?

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The Feminist Majority Foundation was founded in 1987 by Gloria Steinem. This foundation stands for the basic rights of women, equality and women's power. This foundation addresses the issue of inequality, which is prevalent in the passages included in this padlet.

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"Women are often forced to work in the potato fields from sunup to sundown" (240). "They leave their little ones to play in dangerous places and are exhausted each night" (241).

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"Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house and bear and bring us children...If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing, she is there to do it" (178).

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What is the role of women in the church?

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What is the role of women in the church?

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This article expresses a point of view towards women in church that is in contrast to the Egalitarian Position, which states that God created men and women as equals in all respects and makes no distinction. From a few specific passages, this articles concludes that men and women were created by God to be both equal in value and dignity, but gave them different roles. As women, we must fulfill our roles given by God and also reflect God' equality towards both genders.

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"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather she is to remain quiet."

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A Woman's Role According to James Dobson

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A Woman's Role According to James Dobson

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"Women weren't inferior to men, just created for different roles. Our ultimate calling, he said, is in the home, where we can serve God and our husbands by keeping things clean, having supper on the table at six, and, most important, making babies" (xvi).

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"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says."

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The Islamic Women's Group Promoting Regressive Gender Roles

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The Obedient Wives Club (2011): Does Islamic doctrine on female obedience have any place in the modern world?

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Israelite women and Orthodox Jewish women

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Israelite women and Orthodox Jewish women

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"When a woman is niddah (literally, "separate") she is prohibited from having any physical contact whatsoever with men, including her husband...for a total of twelve days" (151).

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Russell D. Moore, an American evangelical theologian, ethicist, and preacher who is currently the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention believes that women ought not be submit to men. We are interpreting the bible wrong.

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| December 5, 2011 |

Those of us who hold to so-called "traditional gender roles" are often assumed to believe that women should submit to men. This isn't true.

Indeed, a primary problem in our culture and in our churches isn't that women aren't submissive enough to men, but instead that they are far too submissive.

First of all, it just isn't so that women are called to submit while men are not. In Scripture, every creature is called to submit, often in different ways and at different times. Children are to submit to their parents, although this is certainly a different sort of submission than that envisioned for marriage. Church members are to submit to faithful pastors (Heb. 13:17). All of us are to submit to the governing authorities (Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13-17). Of course, we are all to submit, as creatures, to our God (Jas. 4:7).

And, yes, wives are called to submit to their husbands (Eph. 5:22; 1 Pet. 3:1-6). But that's just the point. In the Bible, it is not that women, generally, are to submit to men, generally. Instead, "wives" are to submit "to your own husbands" (1 Pet. 3:1).

Too often in our culture, women and girls are pressured to submit to men, as a category. This is the reason so many women, even feminist women, are consumed with what men, in general, think of them. This is the reason a woman's value in our society, too often, is defined in terms of sexual attractiveness and availability. Is it any wonder that so many of our girls and women are destroyed by a predatory patriarchy that demeans the dignity and glory of what it means to be a woman?

Submitting to men in general renders it impossible to submit to one's "own husband." Submission to one's husband means faithfulness to him, and to him alone, which means saying "no" to other suitors.

Submission to a right authority always means a corresponding refusal to submit to a false authority. Eve's submission to the Serpent's word meant she refused to submit to God's. On the other hand, Mary's submission to God's word about the child within her meant she refused to submit to Herod's. God repeatedly charges his Bride, the people of Israel, with a refusal to submit to him because they have submitted to the advances of other lovers. The freedom of the gospel means, the apostle tells us, that we "do not submit again to a yoke of slavery" (Gal. 5:1).

Despite the promise of female empowerment in the present age, the sexual revolution has given us the reverse. Is it really an advance for women that the average high-school male has seen images of women sexually exploited and humiliated on the Internet? Is it really empowerment to have more and more women economically at the mercy of men who freely abandon them and their children, often with little legal recourse?

Is this really a "pro-woman" culture when restaurant chains enable men to pay to ogle women in tight T-shirts while they gobble down chicken wings? How likely is it that a woman with the attractiveness of Henry Kissinger will obtain power or celebrity status in American culture? What about the girl in your community pressured to perform oral sex on a boyfriend, what is this but a patriarchy brutal enough for a Bronze Age warlord?

In the church it is little better. Too many of our girls and young women are tyrannized by the expectation to look a certain way, to weigh a certain amount, in order to gain the attention of "guys."

Additionally, too many predatory men have crept in among us, all too willing to exploit young women by pretending to be "spiritual leaders" (2 Tim. 3:1-9; 2 Pet. 2). Do not be deceived: a man who will use spiritual categories for carnal purposes is a man who cannot be trusted with fidelity, with provision, with protection, with the fatherhood of children. The same is true for a man who will not guard the moral sanctity of a woman not, or not yet, his wife.

We have empowered this pagan patriarchy. Fathers assume their responsibility to daughters in this regard starts and stops in walking a bride down an aisle at the end of the process. Pastors refuse to identify and call out spiritually impostors before it's too late. And through it all we expect our girls and women to be submissive to men in general, rather than to one man in particular.

Women, sexual and emotional purity means a refusal to submit to "men," in order to submit to your own husband, even one whose name and face you do not yet know. Your closeness with your husband, present or future, means a distance from every man who isn't, or who possibly might not be, him.

Your beauty is found not in external (and fleeting) youth and "attractiveness" but in the "hidden person of the heart" which "in God's sight is very precious" (1 Pet. 3:3-4). And it will be beautiful in the sight of a man who is propelled by the Spirit of this God.

Sisters, you owe no submission to Hollywood or to Madison Avenue, or to those who listen to them. Your worth and dignity cannot be defined by them. Stop comparing yourselves to supermodels and porn stars. Stop loathing your body, or your age. Stop feeling inferior to vaporous glamor. You are beautiful.

Sisters, there is no biblical category for "boyfriend" or "lover," and you owe such designation no submission. In fact, to be submissive to your future husband you must stand back and evaluate, with rigid scrutiny, "Is this the one who is to come, or is there another?" That requires an emotional and physical distance until there is a lifelong covenant made, until you stand before one who is your "own husband."

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. Yes and Amen. But, women, stop submitting to men.

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Are women lower than men?

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"Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored."

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"Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head. But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose is sheaved."