Comments on: What’s lost in translation? http://blog.sethjamesthomas.com/archives/12 walking the line of faith, doubt, and hope. looking for glimpses of something greater. the lord is my... Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sean http://blog.sethjamesthomas.com/archives/12/comment-page-1#comment-3 Sean Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:45:21 +0000 http://www.blog.sethjamesthomas.com/?p=12#comment-3 First of all, I like what you've done with the place, I'll be checking in. I'd like to point out a few things that are mildly connected to your topic on this point: 1) How does the culture and society of the authors (yes plural) interact with this verse. Would someone who was alive in this culture during the period in which Genesis was written have said, "Women and men are both free, in God there is no man or woman, etc” (Which is basically what Paul says in Gal 3:28 at a much later time)? 2) Perhaps even more problematic is 1Cor 11:5. Can we pick and choose what we want to read literally and what we want to read figuratively? Can I say that a woman's role in society is clearly below a man's because of passages in Genesis, 1Cor, 2Tim, etc, etc. And if I can, do I get to choose to say that women covering their head is strictly a "cultural issue” and need not be followed today. Gosh, if I get to pick and choose whatever I want to believe out of the Bible maybe this all gets quite a bit easier. I guess what I’m trying to say is I don’t understand how one can claim that women’s role is “below” a man’s in society, in the Church, and at home and at the same time say it’s okay for women to have short hair and not cover their heads (by the way, I’m in no way suggesting that women need to cover their heads and if you know me I am also in no way suggesting that a woman’s place in society is behind men). These conclusions require very opposite readings of the Bible and to me it sounds more like picking and choosing what we think is literal and figurative. I haven’t heard the sermon so I can’t get myself back on topic here, but I like what you have to say Seth. Keep it up bud! First of all, I like what you’ve done with the place, I’ll be checking in. I’d like to point out a few things that are mildly connected to your topic on this point:

1) How does the culture and society of the authors (yes plural) interact with this verse. Would someone who was alive in this culture during the period in which Genesis was written have said, “Women and men are both free, in God there is no man or woman, etc” (Which is basically what Paul says in Gal 3:28 at a much later time)?

2) Perhaps even more problematic is 1Cor 11:5. Can we pick and choose what we want to read literally and what we want to read figuratively? Can I say that a woman’s role in society is clearly below a man’s because of passages in Genesis, 1Cor, 2Tim, etc, etc. And if I can, do I get to choose to say that women covering their head is strictly a “cultural issue” and need not be followed today. Gosh, if I get to pick and choose whatever I want to believe out of the Bible maybe this all gets quite a bit easier.

I guess what I’m trying to say is I don’t understand how one can claim that women’s role is “below” a man’s in society, in the Church, and at home and at the same time say it’s okay for women to have short hair and not cover their heads (by the way, I’m in no way suggesting that women need to cover their heads and if you know me I am also in no way suggesting that a woman’s place in society is behind men). These conclusions require very opposite readings of the Bible and to me it sounds more like picking and choosing what we think is literal and figurative.

I haven’t heard the sermon so I can’t get myself back on topic here, but I like what you have to say Seth. Keep it up bud!

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