The missing piece?
This is so ridiculous that it made me laugh! I did think about taking a photo of me, making it look like a jigsaw, adding Pippa and seeing what it looked like ... but then I wondered what would happen if SHE ever saw it. Not a pretty thought.
HT: Bob Blog
Hyles bases this phrase on a translation of the word "helper" in Gen 2:18. But it really does seem a mistranslation (as well as being utterly demeaning, ridiculous and lots of other words). The Hebrew word is 'ezer, and is a word that is used of God in various places in the Bible, including Exod 18:4 and Psalm 115:9.
Lets just think about this for a minute (or maybe a few years!). I'm still trying to get head round it (it seems as though a women's role to a man is being compared to God's role to the nation of Israel!), but I am absolutely sure it does NOT mean that women are there just to make man complete. Or as Jack Hyles says:God made woman to sit on the sidelines and cheer when a man succeeds.
Arrrrhhhh!!!
10 comments:
That's outrageous!!
Indeed Andrew.
It is so puzzling how anyone can possibly believe that stuff (ha ha)!
lol, the missing piece, love it!
personally if it worked for him that's great, i hope he got a big cheer from his missus for the book :)
By the looks of it its not a recent work and i think we have a more critiqued view of men/women then sometime back in the 50s [18 or 19 you can choose]...
Yeah I saw this one on Bog Blog as well. Seems like this guy's church was practically a cult. I guess we are lucky to have avoided this type of religion in the UK...
I guess one thing we can learn from this is how easy it is to read in one's own culture (in this instance - Southern macho cowboy culture?) into one's reading of the bible.
Or maybe the guy was just a complete muppet!
Thanks Paul ... you are right, not a recent book, but seems as though it was published in 1981, which isn't that long ago ... well OK, maybe quite a while in church terms!
Thanks for the comment Alastair ... I think you make a good point about our culture influencing how we read the Bible, but i wonder if he isn't just a muppet!
sometimes i wish i was a muppet :)
Life might be a bit less complicated!!!!
Very sorry, I accidently flagged the women page as being objectionable; I wanted to flag it as my favourite page! I am exploring christianity and have long been put off by the apparant sexism in the bible. Your site has given me the impetus to keep on searching - Thank you.
Thanks anon. Hope your search is fruitful.
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