Hi everyone, today as I was going through my daily devotional introduced by Christian authors I came across this writer who speaks a lot about how God doesn’t leave anyone behind. All His creations are important to Him.
And then this author brought me to read the book of Luke (which was, believe it or not, one of the first books I approached before I was even a believer) and came across this block of verses.
Luke 10:38-39
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
When I was reading the book of Luke, I didn’t detect anything unusual as we are living in the 21st century, education is already starting to have wide availability for girls as much for boys; but the author reminded me in his book Jesus and Women: Mary, Mary that at that time, it was not common at all for a woman to sit so close to a Jewish teacher to listen the word of God.
By the way, during the first century, the word of God was education to the Jewish people.
And during the first century lifestyle the Jewish women’s main task were on family oriented tasks like house chores and work (like gleaning the fields in the book of Ruth); and even in the book of Esther she was only taught by her uncle and not in the synagogue in BC.
So for Jesus to (kindly) correct Martha that Mary chose the right decision to learn from the Son of Man (God the Son), wasn’t that a way saying He is disagreeing the status quo back then and entitled even females to have equal rights to education?
Wouldn’t that make him one of the first Feminist in the world history of the first century?
So is there any reason for feminist activist (who embraced non religion) to reject the idea that Christianity faith is anti a lot of human rights?
At least this is what the mainstream media is kind of painting it, that conservatism especially in faith (Christianity particularly these days) are somewhat intolerant.
Maybe some man made “refined” Christianity have imposed a lot of “lifestyle sanctions” that Jesus Himself first resolved.
Because what I know some of the Christian faith followers still applies the age old concept of Women are not Leaders, Women should not be in the same church settings as men, and Women are somehow treated slightly lower than men; but the Apostle Paul himself also stated in 1 Corinthians (and other of his epistles) about the Women’s unique abilities and their roles in the House of God.
So, God, to me, is not a woman hater. He is a feminist! (in the correct definition, not the recent skewed facts widely emotionally expressed by unusual individuals)