How do you view God?

Posted on November 15, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

We come to the table for women’s equality from all parts of the globe, from all backgrounds, and with different preconceived theology. To help us understand who we are and what we bring to the table, work out these questions in your mind. Certainly there are right and wrong conceptions, but I doubt that a roomful of theologians would agree on all points.

  1. How do you view God?
  2. What is the basis for your faith?
  3. Why do you choose to worship God?
  4. What do you expect of God for yourself?
  5. What do you expect of God for others? Why would it be, or why is it, different from what you expect for yourself?
  6. How does a just God relate to his human creation?
  7. How does a just God relate to his male creation?
  8. How does a just God relate to his female creation? If God relates differently to his female creation than He does to His male creation, why is that?
  9. What justification would God give for making His female creation submissive to males? (Knowing that God does not have to justify anything to us).
  10. What would better benefit the Kingdom of God – male domination with female submission or male and female equality? Why?
  11. Why would God choose to love all mankind in the first place?
  12. Why would God choose to love me? Why would God choose to love you?
  13. Does that look different because you are male? Does it look different if you are female?
  14. Is God male? Is God female? Both?
  15. How do you view God? Has it changed as you thought through these questions?
  16. Did Jesus change God, or does Jesus reflect God?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. (Luke 13:34).

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5CmgjF2wM

Books by Shirley Taylor available in Print and Kindle on Amazon

The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Will husbands account to God for their wives?

Posted on November 13, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

Until recently I had no idea why many Baptists and other fundamental Christians believe that husbands will account for their wives before God. Of course there is no scripture to back it up, and nothing by Jesus suggests such a responsibility or honor to be given to husbands.

It was a 16 year old boy who was challenging me in a Hispanic Baptist church when I had the aha moment “That is where they are getting it!”

Let’s see what the scripture actually says and you determine if men will give account before God for their wives.

   God said “Adam, where are you?” Silence from Adam as he and Eve hunker down beneath a fig tree. Finally Adam says, “I heard you but I was afraid and I was naked. The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Try to find where Adam, from the time he was formed, demonstrated any spiritual responsibility. Eve did, though. She admitted to God, “The serpent deceived me and I ate.” Repentance. She did not blame Adam for not showing spiritual responsibility. She did not say that his loving, humble headship did not rise to the occasion.

   Because Eve was a strong woman, one who shouldered the responsibility and repented of the sin, the church has used this against her ever since. Eve took charge. That is the distortion they are talking about. Men are to model themselves after Adam who ratted out his wife, hid with her, and acted like she was something that God had foisted upon him.

   They want us to believe that Eve’s sin inclines women to resist being limited in their “roles.”  They are worried that women might want to use their spiritual gifts of leadership in preaching and pastoring. Their attitude is a bunch of hogwash that diminishes both men and women. This teaching diminishes men by not holding them accountable for their actions (like Adam’s), and diminishes women by telling them that they cannot stand up and give spiritual leadership (like Eve did).*

God did call Adam to account – for himself. Just as he called Eve to account for herself.  “But the Lord God called out to the man, “Where are you?”” (Gen 3:8 in which Adam threw Eve under the bus) –  and then God turns to Eve, “The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?”

See, I told you it wasn’t there. God did not call Adam to account for his wife, only to account for himself. Just as we today will have to account for ourselves.

If you are tired of being told that your husband has to account to God for you, then join me in speaking up.

*from my book “Dethroning Male Headship”

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5CmgjF2wM

Books by Shirley Taylor available in Print and Kindle on Amazon

The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Pulpit Bullying

Posted on November 11, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

Planning to attend a funeral at a local Southern Baptist church, I visited their facebook page and clicked on the pastor’s sermon. In the first 30 seconds of his sermon, he said, “The Husband has authority in the home. God has placed the Husband as head of the household.” Then he proceeded to preach on Jesus’ authority. Right off the bat, Husband’s authority came before Jesus’ authority.

That pastor is a pulpit bully, and I fear that his attitude is encouraged by SBC leadership.

Considering the answer Jesus gave to John and James when they asked for the privilege to sit at his right hand side when he came into his kingdom (Mark 10:38), it is highly doubtful that husbands can stand-in for Christ here on earth. But standing in for Christ is exactly what they would be doing if husbands were given the privilege by God to be heads over women. Christ does not share his headship with human males. Why would he?

The story varies as do most of our own stories, and depends upon who is doing the telling.

Matthew 20:23 says that the mother of James and John asked for special favor to be given to her boys, while Mark 10:35 does not mention mom at all. Whatever the case, James and John wanted special treatment. They wanted to sit at the right hand of Jesus, and had the nerve to ask him for this. As you can imagine, the other ten disciples were put out with their request, because they, too, had left their families and spent nights on the road with Jesus.

Amidst this disturbance, Jesus called a board meeting. “Look fellows, you don’t qualify for this position you are asking for.” I imagine there was some elbow nudging and nodding of heads among the disciples. Jesus looked over the twelve standing there and said, “You know that some people want to lord it over everybody else, but you are my disciples and you are not supposed to be that way. Ever who wants to be the greatest, should be the servant, and who wants to be first, should be servant to all.”

Now they had a decision to make. James and John had just embarrassed themselves with their grandiose expectations and the rest of them knew it. They now had two choices: 1) They could pick up their marbles and go somewhere else to play; or 2) they could stay with the rest of the Disciples and continue on with the Master and the work laid out before them.

Setting the example for us, they stayed with the rest of the Disciples. (Mark 10:35-45).

SBC Pastors, other pastors, and Seminary Professors have chosen to pick up their marbles and go their own way, declaring they are equal to sit at the right hand of Jesus, but that WOMEN are not.

Christianity should be about love, so it is hard to justify pulpit bullying of women. Don’t you agree?

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5CmgjF2wM

Books by Shirley Taylor available in Print and Kindle on Amazon

The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source

Posted on November 8, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

It was destined to be an extraordinary day at the temple. Peter had just healed an adult man who was crippled from the time he was a child. And now he and John were telling people about Jesus and his resurrection. The people assembled there were listening because of what they had seen.

Guards always get suspicious when a group of people are intently listening to one person speak, so they slipped closer to hear what was being said, and then reported back to their captain. As you can guess, the captain of the guards did not like what they were saying so he came over to have a little chat with them. They not only chatted, but the guard took them and put them in prison overnight.

“By what power are you doing these things?” they asked Peter and John the next day.

Peter looked them in the eye and said that it was by the power of Jesus Christ, whom they had killed, but who had been resurrected, and now they were able to do this good deed in his name (Acts 3, 4:1-18).

Uh oh.

If these unschooled and untrained men were able to do this, then what else could they do? After all, these men had been with Jesus.

So they talked, and they talked some more, and came up with the only thing they could think of: “in order that it may not be spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to any man in this name.”

Peter and John said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge.”

Like Peter and John, we cannot stop speaking what we have seen and heard.

We are empowered by the same Source. Like Peter, we, too, have walked with Jesus. Peter and John could not quit telling about Jesus. They were told to stop, but they could not, because they were just getting started. We who believe in equality, cannot quit now as the battle is not yet won for women’s equality. We, too, have been with Jesus. Saved by the blood of the lamb and a witness to what he has done through his Word, and to how he has spoken to us.

Will you join me and speak up for equality for Christian women? We cannot stop speaking and telling others that Christian women can be elders, deacons, and pastors of churches, serving as God calls them. We are ready for the new song.

Women are told they are equal-but they have different functions. That theology is not found in the bible, but it determines the roles women are allowed in the church, and even extends inside their own homes. We know women have different functions, but whether or not they lift the toilet ring is not a spiritual function, and should not be the criteria for leadership roles.

The church, which should have been the first to recognize women’s equality, has proven to be the last holdout against women.

Women are beginning to question this theology. It is time we called pastors and seminary professors to account for their teaching. Christian women also need to account for neglecting their responsibility to themselves, and to their daughters, and to other women. Women need to get off their equal-buts and speak up and do something. Men need to take their place alongside women, not in front of women.

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer.

Books by Shirley Taylor available in Print and Kindle on Amazon

The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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How long is your leash?

Posted on November 6, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

A young mother took her family to the Houston Live Stock show where the family was showing a calf to be judged.  She had a young son who she took with her.  She put a leash on the little kid and tied it to a stall and the child could run around and sit down and play – all within the length of the leash.  Several people stopped by and told her that what she was doing to that child was wrong.  Children don’t belong tied to a leash.  The event manager even stopped by to ‘have a talk’ with her.  She told him that the little boy was perfectly all right.  He couldn’t get too far away, or too close to the animals, and he was perfectly content to play where she had put him.

He was unaware that this leash was holding him down because he could not be trusted as to how far he could go, or where he could go.

Are you perfectly content with the leash around your neck?  You can’t get too far away.  You can’t get too close to the animals.  You are safe.  Nobody has  to worry about you because you have a rope tying you down.  You can go as far as you want to – until you run out of rope!

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Part 3. Birthright – Are you ready to unleash your harness?

Posted on November 2, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

Esau and Jacob were twin boys, with Esau being born first. Remember he sold his birthright (the birthright was a way of living, a position in society and family, something to be passed on to the next generation). We enter this story as Jacob has just received his father’s blessing, even though that would have rightly been Esau’s if he had not sold it to Jacob.

Esau said to his father, “Do you really have only one blessing, Father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.

His father Isaac responded and said to him,

“Now, you will make a home far away from the olive groves of the earth, far away from the showers of the sky above. You will live by your sword; you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will tear away his harness from your neck.” Genesis 27:38:40

As the story is told in the Bible, it then moves from Esau to Jacob. It leaves us wondering what happened in Esau’s life? We know he became prosperous because when he went to meet his brother Jacob who came to ask forgiveness, he gathered his gifts and an army of 400 men to go greet and welcome him.

At what point did he “grow restless” and how did he tear away the harness from his neck?

We do not know, but we do know that Esau eventually found his strength and became mature in those twenty years after he left Jacob for a new land. It is that strength and maturity that women have found also. We have begun building up our own herds and gathering our army, not to do harm, but as a witness of whom we have become.

We have grown restless. This is our wealth. These are our gifts.

If you, too, are restless, and are ready to tear away the harness of male headship from your neck, speak up! Now is the time!

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5CmgjF2wM

Books by Shirley Taylor
The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Part 2. New Testament – New Birthright

Posted on November 1, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

“You blind people! You have eyes, but you do not see!” Women, don’t you see? Our birthright has been stolen.

You remember the story of Jacob and his brother Esau. Jacob steals Esau’s birthright. The name “Jacob” means “supplanter, deceiver.” He took what was not his to take. Through opportunity and deception, he received the inheritance of goods and position.

That was the Old Testament. In the New Testament, there is a ‘newbirth’ right. Given by Jesus, where both men and women were set free. A new birth: a new right as sons and daughters of God. That was our birthright. We were free! Christ set us free from religosity slavery.

I like the story of freedom through Christ. Paul told the people of Galatia “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Gal 5:1).

We were all firstborn, and set to inherit the goods and positions. But something happened along the way.

The supplanters and deceivers (Jacobs) came and women’s birthright through Jesus Christ was stolen from them. Church men made us slaves again. Like Esau, we have been tricked and we have lost the precious birthright that came with Jesus. Yes, like Esau, we have sold our birthright for a bowl of pottage. We have received a bowl of beautiful words of flattery served with a generous helping of equal-but.

Years afterward, Jacob sought to make amends with his brother. God met Jacob on the way, and Jacob was engaged in a spiritual battle to account for what he had done. Jacob would not give up the struggle until he knew that he had received a blessing. This changed Jacob forever. He limped, but more than that, he had received forgiveness.

A birthright has been stolen. The birthright was a way of living, a position in society and family, something to be passed on to the next generation.

So it is today. And it has been stolen.

True freedom means a full birthright. To preach. To be a deacon. To serve the Lord’s Supper. To take up the offering. To pass out an attendance pad and worship bulletin (Lord, how petty we have made you!)

Remember that Esau met his brother Jacob with his own set of gifts and forgiveness. We have no malice and we are willing to meet our brothers half-way. We, too, have gifts to bring. With your family and my family together again, we will be able to do many things for the Lord. Again, I ask of you: Will you start the journey?

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer.

Books by Shirley Taylor
The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Part 1. A Parable of the Birthright

Posted on October 31, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

People have asked me “what does women’s equality look like for you?” Since churches and denominations have their own set of restrictions against women in ministry, each person’s picture would look differently. We have shown you what is happening in Christendom right now regarding women’s equality.

This is what I envision women’s equality to look like, so it is actually the end result. We begin with the similarity of the Old Testament story of Jacob, aided by their mother, who stole the birthright from Esau. The story begins in Genesis 25.

Jacob, through deception and opportunity, stole the birthright of his twin brother Esau. Esau was guilty of dismissing the importance of his birthright. This analogy has Jacob representing Christian men who pushed women aside even though men and women were both firstborn in the New Creation, and set to inherit the goods and possessions of the Father. Esau represents Christian women who now realize that they gave up their most valuable inheritance.

Esau who had allowed his birthright to be stolen, met his brother with his own set of gifts and forgiveness. Women, all of whom have had their Newbirth-right stolen, can do the same.

  1. Begin the journey
  2. Gather your gifts
  3. Bring along your army of supporters
  4. Go with forgiveness
  5. Offer reconciliation

Esau gathered his gifts and his army of 400 men and went to meet his brother

Esau said, “What’s the meaning of this entire group of animals that I met?” Jacob said, “To ask for my master’s kindness.” Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what’s yours.” Jacob said, “No, please, do me the kindness of accepting my gift. Seeing your face is like seeing God’s face, since you’ve accepted me so warmly. Take this present that I’ve brought because God has been generous to me, and I have everything I need.” So Jacob persuaded him, and he took it. Esau said, “Let’s break camp and set out, and I’ll go with you.” Genesis 33:8-12 Common English Bible (CEB)

We have no malice and we are willing to meet our brothers halfway. We, too, have gifts to bring. With your family and my family together again, we will be able to do many things for the Lord. Will you start the journey?

See Shirley Taylor in Baptizing Feminism Documentary Trailer.

 

Books by Shirley Taylor
The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Christian Nationalism: Part 3. Setting the Record Straight

Posted on July 31, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

President Joe Biden delivered a speech Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. It is doubtful he included the largest beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So let’s set the record straight.

If you were to ask what The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was all about, more than likely most would say that this Act gave blacks their civil rights in the United States. It did that, but the truth of the matter is that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affected more women than it affected blacks. Blacks made up about 10% of the population in 1964, whereas women have always made up over 50% of the population.

The prohibition against discrimination based on sex (gender) was added to Title VII (Civil Rights Act of 1964) at the last minute on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Yet, we think it is all about equality for black men and women. As the law was originally written, black women would have had more rights than white women, because black women were included in the ‘race’ word.

In the article written by Pavan Acharya “On 60th anniversary, a brief history of Civil Rights Act , July 28, 2024, he also took away the words of the rights that women had finally attained through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by saying “The Civil Rights Act most notable made it illegal to segregate based on race, color, religion, or national origin in a variety of settings including public property, schools and universities and some private business.” See that? He left out women (sex, meaning gender)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

Women have only civil freedoms, not religious freedom. Because, you see, after the Civil Rights Act, women began working ‘men’s jobs,‘ and Christianity could not have that. The church should have been the first to grant women equality. But they did not stand up for full equality for women in the secular world then, and most will not stand up for women in the church now.

All around us are churches that have chosen to discriminate against women – which they can do because they can.

The natural progression, as we moved forward in the 20th century, would have been for churches to accept women in church leadership just as women were being accepted into colleges and places of business. But most did not do that. Instead, churches reacted with vehemence against women. They wanted to hold on to the male feel of Christianity, and they did.

Churches have continually denied capable spiritual women equality before God within their congregations. Women are denied equality by seminaries that teach male headship. Women are denied ministry equality by many denominations that teach only males can be the pastors, preachers, or priests. And, most shameful of all, women are denied by other women in their congregations who prevent them from pastoring churches and from becoming preachers, elders and deacons.

Religious and denominational leaders engaged in overly religious piety after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and this resulted in the formation of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and now Christian Nationalism. They are fighting to keep women where we were.

It wasn’t until February 3, 1870, that black males got the right to vote with the signing of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which said that citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on race. But it did not give women the right to vote, even though Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony pushed hard for the right for women to be able to vote. It would be another 50 years, August 26, 1920, before the 19th Amendment to the Constitution would give women that right. So it was 133 years after the statement “We the People” before women were included in that statement.

Why do you think that our country denied women the right to vote until 1920? Was it because they did not know better, or were they responding to a white male culture? It is impossible to believe that they did not know better. Women had been advocating for equal rights since right after the Revolutionary War, and were very active up through the Civil War. Voting was just one of the equal rights denied women.

This is a country that thought outside the box. This new country would not be led by kings who had power over them, but by a man who would be the President elected by an electoral college. That was extraordinary thinking, not envisioned by any other country, and they knew women wanted to have a voice.

Christian Nationalism has raised its ugly head.

There is a big movement to take us back to those days when women had few rights. J.D. Vance, vice president nominee, said “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.” You can find it on youtube. And because of male headship, the deciding parent would be male, and wives and women will lose the rights that we have gained.

Women, don’t forget that you are included in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

Books by Shirley Taylor
The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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Christian Nationalism: Part 2. Ushering in the modern day witch hunt

Posted on July 27, 2024 by bwebaptistwomenforequality

I will be blunt. The Danvers Statement composed by the Council on Biblical Manhood and womanhood (CBMW), and the Baptist Faith & Message 2000 are modern day tools equivalent to those used by the religious men during the Inquisition in which women were accused of being witches, heretics, and were burned at the stake.

We see how this is played out on the national level. Ralph Drollinger and his Capitol Ministries Bible Study “How to resist the schemes of the devil” is bolstered in his belief that the Devil is out to destroy civilization through your working wife by Dr. Wayne Grudem, the architect of the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood that was introduced to the world of Christianity in 1987. It was accepted by all Southern Baptist seminaries, both Baptist and non-denominational churches, and other faith based entities. It is the defining statement of faith by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW).

A quick look at the website of the Bible Study shows us what Grudem thinks of this Bible Study by Ralph Drollinger: “I am happy to support the excellent work of Ralph and Danielle Drollinger and Capitol Ministries.” Well, I guess he would be glad, since it reflects what is listed on the CBMW website.

The Danvers Statement that was composed by Wayne Grudem and Baptist preachers has 10 Concerns and 10 Affirmations, all directly related to how they believe women’s desire for equality puts an unholy influence on the home, marriage, Christianity and society. Number 2 of their Concerns is:

#2. The tragic effects of this confusion in unraveling the fabric of marriage woven by God out of the beautiful and diverse strands of manhood and womanhood.

Baptists, in the same way as Drollinger does, teach that women are consorting with the Devil when they do not submit to their husbands (step out of their complementary role). For over 300 years, thousands of women died when they were accused of being witches (consorting with the Devil), and today, thousands of women suffer by that same accusation by Christian leaders, under the guise of complementarianism.

Southern Baptist pastors teach that weakness and susceptibility of women allows the Devil to influence them. A pastor of a Southern Baptist church in Texas confirms this: “The many roles of the woman, including wife and mother, can be very taxing. This is why Satan focuses his attack on the family and more importantly on the wife and mother. He knows that by destroying the family unit, he destroys part of God’s plan for man.” (Robert Crowder, The Pearl of the Epistles-Ephesians, Part 1, God’s Design for Marriage.)

Women consorting with the Devil was a strong belief in the Middle Ages, and is still a factor according to the pastor, and the statement by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and by Ralph Drollinger in his Bible Study.

If a woman becomes too strong, usurping the authority of the husband, she is guilty of inviting the Devil into the home. Baptists and the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood believe that when wives submit themselves to their husbands, this enables families to withstand the Devil’s temptations and the onslaughts of the world.

The CBMW brings the Devil right inside your homes

Just as Drollinger repeats, the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s website, cbmw.org, brings the Devil right inside your home by their Mission and Values.

Heavily influenced by, and comprised of Southern Baptist leaders, the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood equates women to witches (listens to the Devil) on their website under Missions and Vision #2.

“If families do not structure their homes properly, in disobedience to the teachings of Ephesians 5, 1 Peter 3, and Colossians 3, (submissive wives) then they will not have the proper foundation from which to withstand the temptations of the Devil and the various onslaughts of the world. This hinders the sanctification of married couples and also introduces confusion about basic parenting issues such as raising masculine sons and feminine daughters.” (CBMW.org)

Shockingly, this is the same language found in the Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch Hunter’s Bible). Wikipedia quotes Michael Bailey (Battling Demons, 2003, University Press):

“The text argues that women are more susceptible to demonic temptations through the manifold weaknesses of their gender. It was believed that they were weaker in faith and more carnal than men. Michael Bailey claims that most of the women accused as witches had strong personalities and were known to defy convention by overstepping the lines of proper female decorum.” (Such as ‘feminine daughters’ from CBMW referenced above.)

Women are often blamed for listening to the Devil

Wayne Grudem said this regarding women’s submissive role: “I still believe it will happen. Jesus Christ is building and purifying his church that he might present it to himself without spot or wrinkle. But on this issue Christ’s purification process is taking much longer than I expected.”

Grudem is specifically calling for the purification of the church by eliminating women leaders. Burning at the stake is illegal, but destroying women is still the goal, just as it was during the Inquisition, claiming that it is Jesus’ desire. I wonder how those priests who burned women could sleep at night. I wonder how they can sleep at night with the same desire.

Some religious leaders thought they were right, some knew they were wrong, but all thought it was for the good of the Roman Catholic Church. Just as some Christians today think that Christian Nationalism is good for United States of America, no matter how it affects women.

Books by Shirley Taylor
The Biblical Marriage Myth: The Devil Comes Calling
The Power of a Book: The Street Evangelist
From Wife to Widow: What I know Now
Beyond the Grave: A Christian Dilemma
Raising the Hood: A Christian Look at Manhood and Womanhood
Women Equal – No Buts: Powered by the same Source
Dethroning Male Headship: 2nd Edition

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