Jesus, Gender and The Holy Bible :: Holy Bible Essays

Jesus, Gender and The Bible   Sunday flush I attended my weekly Ecumenical Christians of Oberlin meeting. This is a group of slackly open-minded individuals that get together on Sundays to have dinner and contend topics related to Christianity. Topics range from What is the Kingdom of God? to Pacifism Turning the early(a) Cheek. Our topic this Sunday was Women and the Bible.   At first I thought that we superpower be studying Esther or one of the many Marys - prominent women in the Bible that are always mentioned whenever the subject is brought up. I was partly rectify we did mention most if non all of the Marys, although we did not mention Esther. macrocosm primarily a non-fundamentalist Christian group, we tend focus on the parvenu Testament. I also thought that this might end up macrocosm a interchange on the women who were important to Jesus and why they were important. at one time again, I was partly correct we did discuss them, but we ended up discussing mu ch more.   The first of two questions we considered was How does my being male or egg-producing(prenominal) affect my phantasmality? I thought for a while and could not think of a single way in which it did. I practically ponder how my being male affects my relationships with my biological father, the opposite sex, and society. But, before this meeting, I had never pondered how being male affected my spirituality. Most of the men in the room seemed to be in a similar state of disarray at the question. The women, however, had a more varied response. Some felt the homogeneous way I did - they had never really thought about it. A couple mentioned how being able to give birth to another gay brought them closer to God, the creator of life. Several more mentioned sexism in the church and how it interfered with their spirituality. This got the discussion rolling, although in a slightly different direction from what the discussion attraction had planned. We talked about how sexis m in the church had affected our lives. The church often seems to hale men and women into specific roles. Women are not always taken seriously, and their spiritual gifts and needs are sometimes ignored. These shortcomings, caused by members of the church as comfortably as tradition, are harmful to members of both genders because they can distort peoples views of the world, the Bible, and God.