The Handmaidens Conspiracy: How Erroneous Bible Translations Obscured the Women's Empowerment Movement STARTED by JESUS CHRIST by Howell Donna

Author:Howell, Donna [Неизвестный]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-06-17T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: The Women Jesus Knew

Paul’s words have been the central cause behind why women have been forbidden to hold leadership positions within the Body. It seemed fitting that the first deep studies would begin there, in order to replace our contemporary interpretations of an ancient text with the proper intent of the ancient text. This was a crucial step in our journey toward seeing the true and biblical role of women, because what we’re about to delve into is the highest authority of all Scripture: what Jesus Christ thought about women!

However, before we delve into those whom He sent, we should first consider those whom He knew in order to understand how He came to view women as a whole. This includes the women He interacted with personally, as well as some of the names He would have studied from Old Testament Scripture (New Testament wasn’t written yet), as those women would have been the natural basis of His theology at the time.

Jesus Knew of Eve

Many today have an inadequate perception of what took place in the Garden of Eden. In spite of what Scripture says, we still tend to rely on the “cartoon” depiction of the Fall: Adam is off somewhere else taking a nap; Eve is surprised when a green snake coils up the trunk of the forbidden fruit tree; after the snake convinces her to eat the fruit, Eve goes looking for Adam and deceives him into believing that eating it would be a good idea (in some versions, Adam doesn’t even know it’s the forbidden fruit he’s taking a bite of); later, when the voiceover actor for God calls out to the couple, Eve acts guilty and Adam acts surprised. The book Paradise Lost by poet John Milton in the seventeenth century played a key role in establishing these, and other, inaccurate portrayals.

Likewise, some members of the Church cling to the misconception that God made only Adam in His image, whereas Eve was simply “plucked” from the man’s chest—a kind of warped, Eve-made-in-the-image-of-Adam theology.

For generations, these ideas have been the “truth” taught to children of the Church, and it concerns me, because it’s one step lower than the at-times contextually dismissive “the Bible tells me so” interpretation method; it becomes that terribly misleading “the cartoon tells me so” reality. Then, when teachers of the Word come along with a deeper understanding, they are written off either as extremists or scatterbrained fruitcakes by the legions of now-grown men and women who skim over the true facts; if those teachers are women… Oh boy. I see the patriarchal cynics waving their “feminist” and “women’s lib” warning flags even now.

Nevertheless, Jesus Christ was present during, and actively involved in, the formation of the world (John 1:1–4). He would have known who was made in whose image, and He would have known what went down on the day of the Fall. Since the Fall account is paramount to how women are viewed today—and since Christ’s treatment of women would

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