1. Christianity lays out differing roles for men and women in the Church and in the home:
A. There is so much opposition to this that even a lot of Christians have capitulated.
B. Many others who do believe it are afraid to speak out.
2. Despite what the feminists say, there are differences between men and women:
A. Men tend to think in a linear fashion. A,B,C,D conclusion.
B. Women tend to think relationally.
C. One is not better than the other. They are meant to complement each other.
D. Men tend to get their primary identity and self worth through their work.
E. Women tend to get their primary identity and self worth through their family.
F. A man’s primary drive is to supply for and to protect his family with nurturing being important but secondary.
G. A woman’s primary drive is to nurture her family with supplying their needs and protecting them being important but secondary.
H. A man’s desire is to conquer, slay the wild beast, and bring home the bacon.
I. The woman is the one who gets pregnant, bonds with the baby even while it is still in her womb, and then has been given the breasts to feed the child, further bonding with him or her.
J. She, therefore, has the stronger desire to have a home and a sense of security.
K. The woman civilizes the man, and the man protects and provides for the woman.
2. Since the fall, and because of sin, someone must be designated to lead the household:
A. If the husband and wife cannot come to an agreement on an issue, and a decision has to be made, and there isn’t someone designated to make the decision, you can very easily get into unsolvable arguments and eventually the relationship, and by extension the family, breaks down to one degree or another.
B. Since man was created first, and the woman was created later as a helpmate for him, the man has been designated to lead and has been given the tools to do so.
C. A unilateral decision being made by the husband should be rare as most decisions should be made in agreement with his wife. It is only in those rare occasions when an agreement can’t be reached is the husband tasked with making the final decision.
D. God will hold the man responsible for the unilateral decisions that he makes.
3. The Church puts men in the primary places of authority:
A. God represents himself by the use of the male pronoun, and gives to us his only begotten Son. The Holy Spirit is also designated with the male pronoun.
B. The Old Testament was patriarchal with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jacob’s twelve sons.
C. In the Old Testament only men were allowed to be priests.
D. In the New Testament God’s only begotten Son became a man.
E. Jesus chose twelve disciples all of whom were male.
F. Only men were designated to be bishops, priests, and deacons.
4. The bishop/priest represents Christ to the congregation:
A. If you have a female bishop/priest then Christ is represented as a female.
B. The Church is designated as the bride of Christ. If Christ is represented as a female and his Church her bride, then spiritually a lesbian relationship is set up.
C. This will tend to work itself out in the material world as an acceptance of homosexuality and/or the feminizing of Christ and by extension men in general with women taking the lead and men following.
5. Another consequence of female bishops/priests is either to begin to represent God as a female, or giving him more female qualities, or at the very least making him gender neutral:
A. Since God created man first and designated him to be the leader, if we represent him as a female, men will tend not to respect his authority.
B. If we represent him as gender neutral we would tend not to see him as a personal being.
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