Cherry Picking the Bible with Jesus
Image by Vecteezy First Problem In the spring of 1992, several young male students at an Assembly of God Bible college in Sacramento, California, were confused about all those women passages. If you were raised in a conservative Evangelical church, you know the ones―women should be silent in the church; women were created second and were the glory of man rather than the glory of God; first God, then Jesus, then the man, then the woman; women must submit to their husbands; women should not teach; women should pray and prophesy with their head covered as a sign of submission; women would be saved in childbirth; women should have long hair; women must not wear certain clothing, etc., etc. For two thousand years, those passages have supported male bias against women in academia, science, art, theology, and even sainthood. That constant disrespect is religion. It’s not love. The issue was never discussed in our Bible college because one of the professors was a woman, and most of...