Paul Was Right About Women

So much of the world we live in and what we see happening is very clearly a result of people just outright ignoring the word of God and what it says on any given issue. War in the Middle East? Look at how both sides deny Jesus, and all that he says about living in peace with each other. Corruption in government? Look at how basically no modern country pays any attention to the importance of having moral people in parliament. Personal corruption and political corruption are extensions of bad morality, not separate issues. Ignore God’s word and you get bad results.

The same can be said with the rampant feminism that runs riot across our society today. This is a direct result of modern man ignoring what the word of God says about women who are not managing the home. Take this prime example from the ABC.[1] What an unpleasant person. Why is she telling couples how they should determine what information they share with each other? How is this her place? How is this anybody's place? This is something those couples should be working out amongst themselves, in the process of building a life together. But this woman wants to criminalize, or at least call violence, people not getting their boundaries right? Also why is an American woman coming on Australian TV to advocate for expanding the definition of violence? Why do we give any of these kinds of people any air time?

Well, the answer is because the western world has disconnected women from their God-given duties. As Paul says,

“9 Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, 10 and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work. 11 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry 12 and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. 13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. 14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. 15 For some have already strayed after Satan. 16 If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows” (1 Tim. 5:9-16).

Paul is concerned here that the Ephesians are not encouraging younger women to direct their energies and time properly. The application here is to widows, because in his day and age, what other women except shrine priestesses considered going single for very long. But what he says in 1 Timothy 2 shows it applies much more generally,

“12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control” (1 Tim. 2:12-15).

When a preacher reiterates something, it is because he wants us to pay attention to it. Paul’s concern here is that if women are not busy managing the home, and their extended family, and all that goes with that, they will become busybodies, saying things they ought not to say. Does this not describe feminists in our culture today? Busybodies who say things they ought not to say. That is probably the most apt description of them. Our society is filled with these often bored and often wrongly employed women who want to take their intelligence, gifts, and abilities and use them to micromanage as many people’s lives as possible.

Women are intelligent, highly organized people. They are on average more intelligent than men, which is necessary for training and teaching in the home. They are often gifted to handle multiple spinning plates at once, and to seek to manage the lives of those under their charge. This is a mighty superpower when applied to the home and to raising children. It is a terror when this is taken and directed to society in general. These kinds of women in society today are plethora and they are constantly looking for things they can tighten up, bring more under their control and more in line with the kind of safety perspective that is good for a home, but stultifying in wider society. They absolutely run wild in schools, hospitals and other female dominated areas, and government is quickly becoming one of those sectors.

This is why feminists are constantly redefining domestic violence to include each and every kind of toxic or possibly toxic behaviour that two sinners can express when they are in an unhealthy place. This is the woman’s natural role, to look for the kinds of threats that those who cannot look after themselves, namely children, need to be protected from. But when they apply this to society they infantilize everyone and this predilection to being overbearing becomes a pedantic quest to put emotional bubble wrap in every part of society. Only women with degrees in psychology could imagine that emotional interactions are actually violence, but our society just happens to produce such women in spades. Imagine seeking to police how adults interact with their social media profiles within the confines of the home. Who even has the time to think of such interference in peoples lives? Busybodies, that is who. Women who are not properly employed as God intended.

Paul is shown again to be right. Women who are allowed to become busybodies are not just an annoyance, they can fall into snares of the devil. And those under the devil’s thrall can do some serious damage to the rest of society. Consider this, feminists want to tell someone who wants to check their spouse’s phone that they may be an abuser, or have abusive tendencies, but will turn around and say that a woman who kills her child in the womb is empowered. What kind of wickedness creates such a worldview? Someone under the snare of the evil one.

I wonder how much this is a result of modern sensibilities, and how much is just the result of a society that has declined into moral disaster? Isaiah says something interesting about women in such a society. He says, “16 The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,…” (Isa. 3:16). And Amos says, “4 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’” (Amos 4:1). Both these prophets appear to note that once a society becomes too decadent that women come to dominate their men, and be given to glancing about with their eyes at what else they can dominate. Does this not sound like feminists today?

Paul was right. When men do not provide it breaks them. Which is why he challenges men that do not provide. They become something they were never meant to be. When women become divorced from their God-given role in society they become busybodies who say things they ought not to say. What is worse is that the weaker men bow before it and give in to it. And when there is enough women like this, your society becomes a set of ever increasing rules and regulations increasingly invading more and more aspects of people’s lives, because the main concern of women was always meant to be the home. It is natural for them to direct their focus there. It was just meant to be their own home, not the homes of everybody else. But do you see how you can take the feminist out of the home environment, but it will still become her pre-occupation to direct the home. Do you see that? The woman without her own home to manage does not lose her nature, she just finds a way to redirect it. And these increasingly invasive feminist organizations are the result. And this all stems from thinking we were smarter than the Apostle Paul. Again, he was proven right and we are shown to be wrong. You can have women direct the home as loyal and faithful wives and mothers, or as busybody feminists that think it is their duty to rule overall. Isn’t that interesting?

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[1] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/esafety-commission-research-reveals-25-of-australians-accept-sharing-partner-passwords-raising-coercive-control-concerns/vi-AA1uGvHv?ocid=socialshare