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Are we really too emotional?<\/p>\n
I have had some interaction with a pastor via the internet on and off for the last half year or so and whenever I have passionately stated my case for believing that women are allowed in scripture to teach the bible to men, I have been accused of letting my emotions cloud my judgment and my thinking.\u00a0 (Sigh)\u00a0 Why is it that egalitarians are pegged as overly emotional while comps consider themselves both logical and biblical?<\/p>\n
Now this particular pastor appears to be a very nice fellow.\u00a0 I really quite like him.\u00a0 He isn’t calling me an unbeliever or a heretic as some have.\u00a0 He is also very supportive of my ministry work regarding my reaching out to Jehovah’s Witnesses to win them for Christ.\u00a0 He appears to like me as a person, and as I said, I also like him, but there is a roadblock that is hard to cross over.\u00a0 He thinks that there is no other way to see scripture but that it limits women from teaching the bible to men. Other than apparently my work with non-Christians, he holds the party line that women who teach the bible to men are sinning against God, and that we can see a pattern for human relationships and roles by the “roles” in the Trinity where the Father is the ultimate authority and the Son submits to the Father (double sigh!)<\/p>\n
Never mind that he has not been able to answer even one of my challenges to his position.\u00a0 He can wave my position off because he attributes it to emotionalism.\u00a0 It is actually a wee bit humorous because I have been charged by others with being too logical and my dogged persistence is not a sign of weak emotions or a faint heart!<\/p>\n
So why do you think that we have to defend ourselves against the charge of being too emotional?\u00a0 Is this a name-it and claim-it-for-the-other-person a way to dismiss everything we say?\u00a0 Are comps really the logical ones and are egalitarians the ones who have no heart for the inspiration of scripture but want to rest their beliefs on feelings, emotions and hurt?<\/p>\n
One thing for sure….hierarchists have caused a great deal of grief for many egalitarians including myself.\u00a0 For one who loves peace amongst the brothers to have to deal with name-calling, anger, vindictiveness, insults and rejection of even being called a sister in Christ, it probably would be okay to cry a tear or two for the hurt that has happened in the body of Christ.<\/p>\n
I trust that a logical, full believer in the inspiration of scripture, persistent, peace-maker like myself is allowed to cry sometimes without being called overly emotional or that my judgment and thinking are clouded by emotions.\u00a0 A soft caring heart is what I long to see in complementarians because they are my brothers and sisters in Christ.\u00a0 I trust that God will help to keep my heart soft to them no matter how many attacks I have to deflect that has been unfairly lobbed over the wall and against my name.<\/p>\n
Pardon me while I cry.<\/p>\n
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Are we really too emotional? I have had some interaction with a pastor via the internet on and off for the last half year or so and whenever I have passionately stated my case for believing that women are allowed in scripture to teach the bible to men, I have been accused of letting my emotions cloud my judgment and my thinking.\u00a0 (Sigh)\u00a0 Why is it that egalitarians are pegged as overly emotional while comps consider themselves both logical and…<\/p>\n