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Women’s Rights within Christianity
The Christian west and the Church has a long history of misogyny and denying women their most basic rights, including financial independence, often attempting to use scriptures to justify it. I have read the Bible and neither the OT law or Jesus forbid women from working or owning property, neither demand that they must get…
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What is the Kingdom of God?
The argument for infant baptism in the church has been Jesus’ quote that “only those who are born of water and the Spirit will enter the Kingdom of God”, but what is The Kingdom of God? Christians for years have believed that this is the afterlife, that if you aren’t baptised you will end up…
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Pick Up Your Cross and Carry It
Luke 9.23-24 What does “pick up your cross” mean? Traditionally the church teaches that carrying your cross meant carrying a burden or making a sacrifice. This has inspired Christians for years to believe daily sacrifice is part of being a Christian, but is that what Jesus meant? Carrying your cross in Jesus’s time meant: condemned…
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Should We Take the Bible Literally?
A source of contention over the years has been the debate about should Genesis be taken literally. Yes, and No – Maybe. The story of Eve – the first woman – destroying paradise for men by disobeying God bears a striking similarity to the story of Pandora – the first woman created by Zeus who…