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fierysword · 1 year

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God needed women for survival. Before Jesus fed us with the bread and the wine, the body and the blood, Jesus himself needed to be fed, by a woman. He needed a mother to say: “This is my body, given for you.”

Rachel Held Evans

#Rachel held evans #incarnation #Mary #women in the bible

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tabernacleheart · 1 year

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To be a woman in Jesus’ day meant you were invisible. Outside your home, no man was allowed to talk to you. In the temple, you could observe holy happenings, but never participate. Your witness didn’t count in court, you couldn’t receive an inheritance, you were never taught to read. Your opinion didn’t matter.

Jesus broke the chains that held women in bondage. He taught anyone who would listen, and even welcomed women to walk with Him as followers (scandalous). Some of His closest friends were women (unprecedented). He never flirted with them, "mansplained", or patronized them. Jesus refused to treat women as inferior in any way; [He] took their questions seriously and respected their [unique] needs. Nobody did that for women in the first century, and rarely [has anyone done similarly] in centuries since.

Every time Jesus mentioned, touched, taught, or talked to a woman, He raised the cultural tide. He applauded both Jewish and Gentile women for their grit. He noticed the quiet, faithful things women did— even an elderly widow putting pennies in the collection plate. He praised women for wanting to learn. He engaged them in stunning conversations about important matters. He pushed back cultural restraints and invited women to thrive.

Even more intensely personal, look at who Jesus helped. The woman who had been with another woman’s husband, dragged to stand almost naked in a crowd of accusers. The prostitute who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears. The woman living with a man, after five other husbands. People whispered (loudly) about these women’s reputations, focusing on their sexual indiscretions, but Jesus looked deeper and saw their souls. He offered them forgiveness, wholeness, and peace with His kind words and gentle touch.

Brave women, all of them. Call it intuition or insight, they just knew Jesus was everything He promised and they let Him help them out of the messes and heartbreak they found themselves in. Likely, they had their share of funny and touching behind-the-scenes stories to tell. They loved Jesus because He first loved them, [and in that love,] they showed up in the places and times when it mattered most— especially at His death, when the other followers hid in fear.

And just like He sees you and knows you, these women meant a great deal to Jesus, Who notoriously redefined the rules to give them dignity and welcome. He called them out of the shadows and into lives of influence and impact. He must have meant the world to them. [After all, they meant the world to Him.]

He Gets Us

#jesus christ #he gets us #women in the bible #reflect on this

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elizabeth-halime · 1 year

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#Jezebel #Jezabel #jezabel #history #jezebel #history of women #ancient women #women in the bible #women in history #History of bible #Holy bible #Priestess of baal #priestess #Book of Kings #Queen #my favorite

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littleflowerfaith · 1 year

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astoicmind · 10 months

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The actual Mary Magdalene

I will never forgive Pope Gregory I for what he did to Mary Magdalene and how she's been demonised for years because of it. Mary Magdalene was never a sex worker, and was one of the most devout women within the Bible. SHE WAS RIGHTFULLY AN APOSTLE, St. Thomas Aquinas even called her the Apostle to the Apostles, she only got a specific saint day (not a memorial day) in 2016-

Mary Magdalene has been destroyed by history, which she never deserved.

#christian witch #christian witchcraft #st. mary magdalene #mary magdalene #women in the bible #bible #christianity #apostles #disciples of christ #jesus #archaeology #academic study #justice for mary magdalene

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quotesfromscripture · 1 year

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Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat. A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all. On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, "Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!" He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

Luke 13:10-13 CJB (1998)

#bible verse #scripture #healing #miracles #words of Jesus #complete jewish bible #touched #comfort #weakness #sickness #synagogue #sabbath #women in the Bible #spirits #disability #christianity #luke 13 #luke 13:11 #freedom

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nsfwbible · 2 years

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Judith and Holofernes

Irish artist John Luke (1906–1975) made the oil-on-board painting around 1929.

“The sense of control and violence is a fascinating twist in relation to the cool glamour seen in fashionable images of women at the time,” writer Georgina Coburn observes:

“The 1920’s youthful ingénue becomes something altogether different in Luke’s painting, a psychological and societal threat to the ruling power of masculinity, perpetuated for centuries by male scribes and Old Masters. Luke reimagines Judith as a force in her own right in a new era of emancipation, in the form of a young woman who looks only in her late teens. Dressed in a plain green collared drop waist dress and dark stockings, she has the stance of an avenging angel and the command of a general. Positioned centre stage in a room of flattened perspective like that of Italian Quattrocento painters of the early Renaissance, there is drama here outside tradition. Unlike the treatment of the subject by many European Old Masters, it isn’t the deed itself that is depicted but a state of calm self-possession immediately after, alive in the here and now.”

The painting is on view at the Armagh County Museum in Northern Ireland.

#Judith Beheading Holofernes #judith #Judith and Holofernes #john luke #femme fatale #women in the bible

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misespinas · 1 year

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Delilah. Lot's daughters. Herodias/Salome. Tamar. Jezebel. Potiphar's wife.

The Virgin Mary. Sarah. Ruth. Esther. Rachel. Mary Magdalene. Dinah. Bilhah/Zilpah. Hagar. Bathsheba. The Levite's concubine.

The stories of these figures always leaves me confused and wanting more answers even though I'm not practicing

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ofparadisehopeful · 2 years

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can anyone recommend any Christian blogs that aren’t trad heavy? im trying to put more positive influence on my dashboard and i would love to discuss theology and and the church and feminism within christianity with people who both agree and disagree with me

thank you <3

#Christian #feminist christianity #nontrad housewife #theology #reformed theology #women in the bible #christianblr

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fierysword · 2 years

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Adam is not actually alone–God is present with him... The word “alone” (’bad’ in Hebrew) doesn’t at all suggest loneliness nor does it mean simply “singular.” It [can mean] “in separation” or “moving apart.”... Eve was the answer to the world’s first crisis. The problem being...God knew Adam’s heart was in danger... Adam needed face-to-face, heart-to-heart help from someone who represented God... Ezer has less to do with assisting someone than it does with truly coming to the help, the aid, and the rescue of a person. Eve is the revelation of Eliezer (el-ezer) which means the power and protection of the “God of help”... Eve is the “image and likeness” of the God who saved Moses from the sword of Pharaoh... Since Eve is the revelation of the God of Help, it’s not surprising that the word “helper” (ezer) is used throughout the Bible in its feminine form ezrâh in reference to God when She comes to humankind’s rescue [Ps 22:19, Ps 46:1].

https://www.deidrehavrelock.com/eve/the-powerful-helper/

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tabernacleheart · 1 year

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Saint Mary Magdalene came to the tomb “on the first day” before it was light. What this means is that she came at the first possible moment once the Sabbath restrictions had been lifted. She loved her Lord so much, even in death, that she could not wait another moment to be close to Him. Reading this passage at Christmas might seem strange. This is the Easter story. Right now, we are remembering how Jesus was born. What we gain, though, from this glimpse of Easter in the midst of Yuletide, is a reminder of how Jesus’ birthset the stage for a rebirth that would enable all of us to be reborn. He emerged from the womb so that He could later emerge from the tomb. And on both momentous occasions, there was a woman. A woman who loved Jesus deeply was the first in each case to know that something was afoot, and the first to welcome him to new life...

Having a baby is a life-giving act, and yet for the woman it also involves a kind of death, as the old self is subsumed in a radical way by the immense needs of a helpless new human. So it must also have been for Mary. We see poignant glimpses of that transformational love in the feminine outline that sits at the manger and by the foot of the Cross, and who runs on Easter morning to the empty tomb. Love creates life, in the literal acts of creation and procreation, but also uncountable other ways as love affirms that goodness of everything God has made. At Christmas, we recall the night of Our Lord’s birth, when He lay in the arms of a woman, the first to believe, and the first to love him.

Rachel Lu

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elizabeth-halime · 6 months

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littleflowerfaith · 2 years

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“His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28:3, 5-6‬ ‭KJV‬‬

#the gospel #gospel of matthew #Matthew 28 #the resurrection #trust in jesus #jesus christ our saviour #the crucifixion #the crucifixion of Jesus #jesus is my savior #christ is risen #the empty tomb #women in the bible #mary magdalene #mary of bethany

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kgdrendel · 12 days

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The Surprising Elevation of Women in the Bible

The Bible was written by men during times in which men dominated thought and culture

I am reminded again in my daily reading of Scripture of the prominence of women in the life and ministry of Jesus. Every time I read through the Gospels, I see it. As I read through the Old Testament with eyes sensitized by the Gospels, I see the theme there also. This theme is somewhat, hidden, however. We have only committed to the idea that women should be equals of men in very modern times,…

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#paternalism #Rebecca McLaughlin #sexism #Tom Holland #women in the Bible

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graceandpeacejoanne · 2 months

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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, Woman Caught in Adultery

Most Bibles point out the earliest manuscripts do not include this story, and sometimes it appears in Luke However, Jerome, in 383 AD, included it in his translation of the Gospel of John, right after chapter 7, where it is usually found today. #John7

Most Bibles point out that the earliest manuscripts do not include this story, and sometimes it appears in Luke However, Jerome, in 383 AD, included it in his translation of the Gospel of John, right after chapter 7, where it is usually found today. Jerome noted that many ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts at his disposal had this story, in its usual position. Ambrose of Milan, and Augustine…

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#Bible #Bible study #biblical teaching #biblical woman #biblical women #egal #Egalitarian #expository teaching #John 7 #scriptural teaching #Woman caught in adultery #Women in the Bible

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quotesfromscripture · 2 years

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For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

1 Peter 3:5-6 NIV (2011)

#bible verse #christianity #christian living #marriage #husbands and wives #men and women #women in the Bible #master #gender roles #head of household #holiness #inner beauty #humility #service #obedience #courage #1 peter 3 #new international version

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