Suppression Of Women by The Bible????

Someone sent me an email that said, "Because fundamentalist religion of all stripes has degradation of women at its core, and fundamentalist Christianity is no exception. Progressive Christians believe the Bible is a human document, a record of humanity’s multi-millennial struggle to understand what is good and what is God and how to live in moral community with each other. But fundamentalists believe the Bible is the literally perfect word of the Almighty, essentially dictated by God to the writers. To believe that the Bible is the literally perfect word of God is to believe that women are tainted seductresses who must be controlled by men."

Authority

Both men and women are to be humble and submissive to authority. No one is exempt. Tyrannical men who abuse their women have no authority. Nor do tyrannical women. Tyrants are rebels against the Highest Authority. Calvinism worked out this doctrine in history and it resulted in republican democracy (liberty in the modern world). The humanist Progressives built on this foundation of Calvinism but left the authority of God’s word out. Submission to authority is the path to freedom. Jesus said, "He that sins is the slave of sin" (John 8:34).

Only by being under True Authority does one have authority and freedom. “For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it” (Mt 8:9). Rebels (including tyrants) might have power, but they do not have authority. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses” (Numbers 12:8)?

All rebels against legitimate authority are tyrants at heart. God says to all Progressive tyrants what he said to King Saul. “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king” (1Sam 15:23). Humility is God’s requirement for acceptance. “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). Progressives are rejected from being kings because they invent their own authority. (Read Edmond Burke, for crying out loud.)

God is the highest authority. His word (as given by the prophets and apostles) is His revealed will. The Bible is the word of His people, His firstborn heir and delegated authority who is under authority. “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Israel is My son, My firstborn” (Exodus 4:22). God’s church is the Israel of God. “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God” (Gal 6:16). But if the church is not under the authority of God’s word, the church has no authority. If Progressives pretend to speak for God but are not in agreement with the prophets and apostles of Scripture, then they are false prophets. Jesus appealed to Scripture for His own authority (John 5:39).

Even the humanist, Tom Jefferson did not leave God out. He wrote that all men are created and said, “they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Notice that these rights come from the Creator and the only rights we have are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (property). It is the sole duty of government to protect those God-given rights. The function of legitimate government is negative, not positive. Its duty is to keep men from murdering, enslaving, and stealing.

Because the Founders understood the proclivity of human nature to control others the Constitution was written to protect those rights and to protect the people from the government. Freedom of religion is the first amendment. Protection of private property is the law of the Creator: Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet. Protection of liberty: Thou shalt no bear false witness. Protection of life: Thou shalt not murder. We have no rights for a free education, free health care, etc. because to have that would violate the rights of others. (Read THE LAW by Bastiat, for crying out loud.)

But, we have a right to “altar or to abolish it, and to institute new Government” only through duly authorized government representatives. Mob rule and vigilantism is illegal rebellion against God’s authority. God hates rebels against true authority, but to rebel under the authority of the highest authority is not only a right, but also a duty.

The French Revolution was rebellion against the Highest Authority, God. It was illegal because it was based on mob anarchy and class envy. It sought to destroy the past and the church. The current progressives are children of the anti-God French Revolution. They are heirs of Barabbas. They oppose the God of Scripture and the Constitution. “Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries” (Jude 8).