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Women’s Rights within Christianity
The Christian west and the Church have 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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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…
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I’ve been wrong about God
It’s occurred to me over the last year and a half that so much of what I believed about God is wrong. I’ve thought of Him as all about judgement and punishment. He’s not, He’s about love and salvation, and He’s suffered from bad press, even within the church. If you want to experience what…