Dorothy Sayers puts it well with her reflection onhow women are portrayed in the bible. and this is very true. my
whoamans check this out:
"Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never know a man like this Man--there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them as "The women, God help us!" or "The ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked with querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unselfconscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of jesus that there was anything "funny" about woman's nature."
Praise!
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Hey Molly,
Awesome posts. I will try to respond to them in dpth over the weekend.
In Him,
mike
here here!
Amen Sistah!
Hey Molly,
Finanlly I have gotten around to cutting and pasting your prolific writings into a document
so that I can digest and respond to all you have to say. I’ve only had a handful of folks
post on my blog ever and you certainly get the record for largest and most thoughful post!
=)
I’ll start with your third post - just becuase that’s the order I copied it! ;-) You have
shared a wonderful observation about the mystery of “matter” and “spirit:”
(...but i must say i think it is relieving not to expect every fleck of thing or person to be
divine. and it's way too messy to say that everybody is a piece of the divine, or
representation, because that's way to fragmented and there gets to be too many minigods
and it's too cluttured, and come-on, we don't know what we are doing. we are broken, and
we need help, we can't do it alone...”)
For me, I can’t help but observe, that though most of the bible and the teaching about god
in the Old Testament and New Testament speak as though a historical or a philospohical
account, when we “read between the lines” and synergize the way the different narratives
in the bible relate to one another we find extremely profound insight into the nature of
reality - not just the reality of the cosmos and the multiverse and the spiritual realm - but
also the reality of the inner heart of every one of us. As you noted elsewhere in your post,
one can certainly run oneself silly trying to trace every piece of matter (spiritual or
physical) and trying to determine what is “tainted” by the “divine” and what is “tainted” by
evil.
Most folks - no matter what their world view - assert to the reality of the “conscious”
individual - call it “consciousness,” a “soul” - whatever. I think it’s at that point - in our
“hearts” and souls that the reality on the power of god really comes to life. Of course,
there’s always the amazing “god-synergy” that occurs between the creator and the
creation in the mindst of nature or community...
=)
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