What does it say about women speaking again?
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.”
Just a few
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agingelderly@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
TunaLobster@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Paul probably didn’t write that paragraph of verses. It was most likely added by someone else along the way.
To your point of people wanting to take only portions of the Bible literally and ignore others, there are TONS of things that the old testament says to do that we don’t do every day.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That sounds like a very feminine opinion
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Nah, I can see Paul saying that, I just cannot see Jesus (who was openly kissing women like men kissed men and basically publicly recognising them as equals! The horror, lol) saying that. 🤷
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Equally controversial fact:
I am not obliged by law or morality to follow what is written in your fucking book either way.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
My version: I don’t fucking care what your dumb book says.
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Every time I hear the word bible and fact in the same sentence the church bells start ringing in my head.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Didn’t Mary and Joseph live together before they were married?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It was acceptable because Mary could do sick ollies at the half pipe
lauha@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
No, they just had a baby in a cave together and claimed it was a virgin birth.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
I feel like if they were married it would have been expected that mary wasn’t a virgin
wieson@feddit.org 8 hours ago
I did a quick look, but tbh I would need to know more about ancient judaic wedding practices.
Here goes: in Gospel by Luke, when Mary gets the announcement, they are betrothed (fiancée).
In Gospel by Matthew, Joseph hears of this and wants to cancel the betrothement, but gets an explanation by an angel and “takes her in” but doesn’t sleep with her until after Jesus is born.
In Gospel by Luke, when they arrive in Bethlehem, they’re called betrothed. So I don’t know how official and extensive the “taking in” is to be seen.Anyways, look what I found in the Song of Mary:
He performs mighty deeds with his arm; he scatters those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
He brings down rulers from their thrones but lifts up the humble.
He fills the hungry with good things but sends the rich away empty.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I can’t read
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Did God marry Mary, before he knocked her up?
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
No, but in his defense, neither did he live with her.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Incorrect. He lives inside all of us! HE’S INSIDE OF YOU RIGHT NOW!!
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Some really unfortunate power dynamics in that relationship.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub 6 hours ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Thou shalt boof but not before 3 days after the sabbath
SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Outside the Ten Commandments (supposedly), the Bible was written entirely by fallible humans - these assholes keep forgetting that part & act like it’s 100% perfect (which we know it’s not simply by its own self-contradictions).
stoy@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It is also important to not forget about how the Bible was formed.
What we know as the Bible is a collection of books, selected by a committee during a conclave centuries ago.
Any decision made by humans in power and influence will inevitably be favoring their own goals and politics.
There are plenty of other Christian texts that were excluded, how would they have changed Christianity if they were included?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They left out the good shit. The Apocalypse of Peter preaching universal salvation and the Enoch books with all the cool stuff in them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Excuse me but Elisha successfully cast summon shebear swarm and I posit any being able to summon and command not just a shebear but a swarm of shebears just might be infallible
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
That’s a movie script right there.
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
The Ten Commandments, famous for being identical and consistent across varying versions of religious scripture and sections within the same!
bus_factor@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Also somehow the King James version is authoritative, after who knows how many links if translation phone games?
jimonthony@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
There are so many books. It is strange that this one gets so much attention.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Controversial fact: Gondor does in fact call for aid.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
We mustn’t answer the call!
feannag@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
But it’s a Good Book don’t ya know! If you just read one book it should be a Good Book.
TIN@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Unexpected Tim Minchin
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The Bible is very contradictory because it’s a collection of books written throughout millennia, usually with prophets saying A and judges and scholars saying B (and people usually following B).
And I see Stanzi is on her Madonna-styled Trinitarian rebellion, lol. I love her content, hopefully she’s not doing too many bumps!
Hoimo@ani.social 33 minutes ago
Society changed a lot since Biblical times. They didn’t “live together” in the same house, but these people certainly “lived together” in the same street or village before getting married. People didn’t really have a lot of “home life” like we do now, they’d be out in the fields, or cooking in front of their home. So they’d see each other’s home life and it’s more “getting a house for themselves” than a big change in privacy or contact hours.