Jesus says that divorce is permissible when the wife is guilty of fornication.
But what if the husband is unfaithful? Jesus doesn't seem to care about that.
5:32, 19:9
When Jesus' mother wants to see him, Jesus asks, "Who is my mother?" 12:47-49
Abandon your wife and children for Jesus and he'll give you a big reward. 19:29
"Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days." Why? Does God especially hate
pregnant and nursing women? 24:19
Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to ten virgins who went to meet their
bridegroom. 25:1
Jesus shows disrespect for his mother and family by asking, "Who is my mother, or my brethren?" when he is told
that his family wants to speak with him. 3:31-34
Jesus will reward men who abandon their wives and families. 10:29-30
In the last days God will make things especially rough on pregnant women. 13:17
Peter and his partners (James and John) abandon their wives and children to follow Jesus. 5:11
Jesus, when told that his mother and brothers want to see him, ignores and insults them by
saying that his mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it. 8:20-21
Abandon your wife and family for Jesus and he'll give you a big reward. 18:29-30
Jesus tells Mary Magdalene not to touch him because he hasn't yet ascended -- as if the touch of a woman
would defile him and somehow prevent him from ascending into heaven. 20:17
Paul explains that "the natural use" of women is to act as sexual objects for the pleasure of men.
1:27
"Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church."
The Revised Standard Version calls Phoebe a
"deaconess", which would make would make her a church leader. If the
RSV translation is correct, this verse contradicts
the requirement that women not be permitted to teach and that they must be
silent in church. (1 Cor.14:34-35, 1 Tim.2:11-12). 16:1
"Junia ... of note among the apostles"
Was there a woman apostle? That is how some interpret this verse and use it to justify a more active
role for women in the church. 16:7
Paul would prefer that no one marry. but he says "to avoid fornication, let every man have his
own wife." 7:1-2
"Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife." 7:27
Paul says "the head of the woman is the man," meaning that the women are to be subordinate to men.
11:3
If a woman refuses to cover her head in church, then her her head must be shaved.
11:5-6
Men are made in the image of God; women in the image of men. Women were created from and for men.
11:7-9
Every women should have power on her head because of the angels. 11:10
Women are commanded by Paul to be silent in church and to be obedient to men. He further says that "if they
will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in
church." 14:34-35
Women are to dress modestly, "with shamefacedness" -- "not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly
array." 2:9
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a
woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." 2:11-12
Men are superior to women since Adam was made before, and sinned after, Eve. But even though women are
inferior to men, they shouldn't be discouraged because they shall "be saved in childbearing."
2:14-15
"A bishop must be ... the husband of one wife." Apparently, it's OK for laymen to have
several. 3:2
Real widows are "desolate" and pray "night and day." But those widows that experience pleasure are "dead
while [they] live." 5:5-6
You should help a widow only if she 1) is over 60 years old, 2) had only one husband, 3) has raised
children, 4) has lodged strangers, 5) has "washed the saints feet," 6) has relieved the afflicted, and 7) has "diligently
followed very good work." Otherwise, let them starve. "But the younger widows refuse [to help]: for ... they will
marry; having damnation." Besides the young widows are always idle tattlers -- "busybodies, spreading things which
they ought not." He adds that "some are already turned aside after Satan." 5:9-15
Peter orders all wives to be "in subjection" to their husbands. 3:1
Wives are to use "chaste conversation, coupled with fear." They are not to braid their hair, wear gold, or put on
any "apparel." They are to do these things in imitation of the "holy" women of the Old testament who were "in
subjection to their won husbands: even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord." 3:2-6
In relation to her husband, the wife is "the weaker vessel." 3:7
Jezebel (whom God had thrown off a wall, trampled by horses, and eaten by dogs
[2 Kg.9:33-37]) is further
reviled by John, saying "that woman Jezebel" taught and seduced God's "servants to commit fornication."
2:20
Jesus will "cast her [Jezebel] into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her."
2:22
Only 144,000 celibate men will be saved. (Those who were not "defiled with women.")
14:1-4
The great whore has "committed fornication" with all the kings on earth.
Everyone else is "drunk with the wine of her fornication." She sits on a scarlet
colored beast with the usual 7 heads and 10 horns. She carries a cup full of the
"filthiness of her abominations" and has a big sign on her forehead saying:
"Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the
Earth." You'll know her when you see her. 17:1-5
"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs." 17:6
"All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the
earth have committed fornication with her." 18:3
The "great whore" corrupted the earth with her fornication. 19:2
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