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By no means am I saying God is wrong. Likewise, I'm not saying women are better than this, nor do I know if men are supposed to be better. So, whatever you do, don't make this into a feminist or chauvinist response. I'm really really asking because of what I see in the Bible.
1. It was written only by men. (Yes, kind of obvious that the times it was written it was a man's world, but it was also a world where seas don't split in two for a people to pass through and yet that happened. And it was a world where you don't bring back a man from the dead after three days, and yet that happened. God could have had one of the writers of the Bible be a woman if he wanted, but, apparently, didn't want that.)
2. The census in the book of Numbers -- only the men were counted. (And you can't go with "that's because it was those who could fight," because 1 month old Levites weren't fighting, nor were Levites, in general, fighting.) The women weren't counted. Not like the womenz folkz were useless, even in the wilderness.
3. Some of the laws hit on what happened if men... It never seemed to matter, if women... For instance, if a man takes a maiden, (and that's rapes a single girl), the only thing disputed after that is does the single woman go back to her family and they get paid for the damage, or does she marry the rapist. And I'm now in Numbers 5:12-31, which goes through all the ritual of what happens if a man suspects of his wife of cheating, but can't prove it. Nothing happens if a woman suspects -- or even knows -- her husband is cheating.
I know what nonbelievers think. I know the excuses believers make, because I've made them myself. But this is God. He really wasn't dealing with the mindset of a culture, because he dropped that mindset on its ear more than once. So, really, what's up with the "it's a man's world" mentality the Bible is leaving me with? It is God, so where does woman stand before God?
1. It was written only by men. (Yes, kind of obvious that the times it was written it was a man's world, but it was also a world where seas don't split in two for a people to pass through and yet that happened. And it was a world where you don't bring back a man from the dead after three days, and yet that happened. God could have had one of the writers of the Bible be a woman if he wanted, but, apparently, didn't want that.)
2. The census in the book of Numbers -- only the men were counted. (And you can't go with "that's because it was those who could fight," because 1 month old Levites weren't fighting, nor were Levites, in general, fighting.) The women weren't counted. Not like the womenz folkz were useless, even in the wilderness.
3. Some of the laws hit on what happened if men... It never seemed to matter, if women... For instance, if a man takes a maiden, (and that's rapes a single girl), the only thing disputed after that is does the single woman go back to her family and they get paid for the damage, or does she marry the rapist. And I'm now in Numbers 5:12-31, which goes through all the ritual of what happens if a man suspects of his wife of cheating, but can't prove it. Nothing happens if a woman suspects -- or even knows -- her husband is cheating.
I know what nonbelievers think. I know the excuses believers make, because I've made them myself. But this is God. He really wasn't dealing with the mindset of a culture, because he dropped that mindset on its ear more than once. So, really, what's up with the "it's a man's world" mentality the Bible is leaving me with? It is God, so where does woman stand before God?