Job 14-16

[wolfpurplemoon]

A bit of typically biblical misogyny amongst Job's continuing lamentations, women are "unclean" so no child can be born "clean".

Comments

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

Well, they couldn't anyway because of Original Sin. Which of course was Woman's fault.

[jaronsjournal.livejournal.com]

The Bible doesn't unfairly blame Woman for sin, as you seem to wish it did.

Romans 5:12 "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man..."

Does Paul say anything sexist or stupid that is demeaning to women there? No. You aren't going to find any disciple of Christ in the NT treating women abusively. And as I said before, ironically its those who don't take God seriously that curse and abuser their wives.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

The abuse is less in the NT but it's there. I'd have to dig out my bible to find exact passages (and I don't want to because it's just depressing) but overall, through the whole thing, women are less-than. They're like children at best. The noblest thing a woman can do is to be "pure." The one woman who impressed Jesus impressed him with her abject worship of him, drying his feet with her hair.

And regardless of what Paul says in Romans, it was Eve who took the apple. And whether you want to say it's Adam's or Eve's fault, the point is that the apple represented knowledge. God banished them for gaining knowledge. The argument is that no, he banished them for disobedience. Because he had ordered them not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Because knowledge is BAD.