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Dalrock, you are evidence that teh stoopid truly knows no gender. Harsh perhaps, but painfully true. Your latest post is all about “The Apostle Paul’s secret feminist message finally decoded.” Cynicism, satire perhaps, but not edifying, not reflective of scripture, not an argument for femininity, not a motivator for soft hearts and gentle women.
In the post Dalrock declares, “Christian feminists are shameless liars when it comes to Scripture. They claim to have secret knowledge of the meaning of Scripture, meanings no one could discern for 2,000 years. In the hands of a Christian feminist Paul is no longer warning that those who would corrupt the Church will take a page out of the Serpent’s playbook in Eden and focus on deceiving women as the entry point.”
Speaking of “secret wisdom,” can you show me where Paul warns that the serpent will use women to deceive the church? Can you show me the part where women are so evil we are nearly indistinguishable from the enemy himself? Can you tell me why you read those beautiful words Paul wrote and interpret them to mean that women must be weak, silent, in perpetual service to all men, completely erased, used as nothing more than doormats to wipe ones feet on? Are we really that scary?
The woman in your video is correct in the sense of how she handles scripture, in how she lifts up and encourages women, in how she speaks of us as daughters of most high God, how she encourages us. She speaks of how we often let the wrong kind of guy creep into our lives, false teachers, controlling, obnoxious creeps, and she takes that right out of scripture. “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” Women have numerous issues Dalrock, but we are not the “evil men and seducers” spoken of in scripture.
Scripture does not call for weak women, in fact the precise opposite. Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. Those words about weak women are actually a warning, not a commandment for us to generate even more weakness in women! Like, duh, we are not called to be “silly women,” we are advised against it. “For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts..”
Is is disheartening to have so many women engaged in the work of the Lord, in the work of clothing ourselves in Strength and honour, in exhorting one another and delivering the good news, only to have people like Dalrock going in the opposite direction, a false direction by the way, a direction based neither in scripture nor history, a direction that does nothing to further the cause, but rather caters to hostility, sin, and bitterness in men’s lives.
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers…”
Like, Dalrock, h-e-l-l-o! Take it from a sister who knows sarcasm and bitterness well, you are not hearing the truth in the words you quote. Women cannot exhort, praise, or encourage men who are too busy loving their own selves and trying to tear their sisters down.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Allow me to comment on my own post. The woman Dalrock attacks says,
“A weak woman tries to act strong, and culture tells us to act all strong and in control and in charge and bossy as women. But a woman of strength recognizes that she is weak, and that she needs a Savior-that she’s in a lifelong wrestling match with sin, and she’s not going to win unless that Savior comes in and takes care of it for her.”
Amen! Those are words of wisdom, that’s how it is. For Dalrock and his rag tag bunch of haters to now attack this woman is just ridiculous, and also hurtful.
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Reblogged this on 40+/Single/Clueless and commented:
Without women, there would be no church. Literally.
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Thank you for the reblog. 😉
LOL, without men and women there would be no people! Literally, so no church either.
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Thank you for this post.
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I’m not generally that interested in what Dalrock has to say, but his misrepresentation of this video is disturbing. Deceptive seems a better description to me than stupid. There is no way he heard or read that lecture and came away truly thinking she said what he claims she said. It looks like his commenters are repeating their mantras as usual without reading, considering, or trying to understand what she said. She must be wrong because she’s a woman standing in front of people. And since when is it not Biblical for women to teach women?
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It is disturbing and sad too, because those men are being lead down the wrong path and they’re being fed something false that is going to hurt them.
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I don’t find it clear where the intersection between being led and following resides. We all choose who to listen to and trust, but we do choose, so that these men read D and instantly agree without checking it out and trying to see if what he says is true before they agree is at least somewhat on their own heads. At the same time, disagreeing with a group of like-minded people is always difficult, especially when the consequences involve the complete repudiation of the group. Basically, “Get back in line or be completely trashed!” Those who wouldn’t care aren’t his adoring fans and those who are his adoring fans would be devastated.
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I know, right? Everybody is responsible for their own choices, for what they chose to believe. However, Dalrock as a professing Christian is held to higher standard in how he presents scripture, in how he treats people.
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Finally, after nearly 2000 years, women run everything in the Catholic Church except the Vatican.
The real Protestant Reformation has nearly succeeded!
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Ha! I think perhaps not, Silence.
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Once again a great post of which separates truth from fiction. Always a pleasure reading your post. God bless.
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Thank you for your kind words and for taking the time to read. God bless you, too.
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You are more than welcome. I always enjoy your down-to-earth and realistic approach to posts. It is, at a very minimum, refreshing. So, the real thank you goes to you…..
I hope you can forgive me for the rather lengthy and blunt comment I made the other day. It was frustrating to me seeing how the church (people) are withholding their duties as Christians.
Shalom.
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“They claim to have secret knowledge of the meaning of the Scriptures, meanings that no one could discern for 2000 years.”
LOL—what do these guys do? Read criticisms of their own cult and project it on everybody else?
Where, for example, does the Bible teach Game?
“Men shall be lovers of their own selves; covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers….”
The Gamecocks apparently misinterpret this passage as a commandment.
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Precisely, Eric. Scripture, allegedly as a commandment to have weak women and men as lovers of self. Good grief!
Some hear me, some begin to think for themselves, there are stirrings, there is hope. 😉
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Well, some of his commenters disagreed and they had an epic fight:)
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Hallelujah! 😉
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I think you are misunderstanding what Dalrock said. Here is the relevant scripture:
[2 Timothy 3:2-7 NASB] 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Paul does not say, nor does Dalrock claim he did, “that the serpent will use women to deceive the church”. Paul does say that evil men will take advantage of “weak women weighed down with sins”.
Dalrock does not say that all “women are so evil” that they “are nearly indistinguishable from the enemy himself”. He does say that “Christian feminists are shameless liars when it comes to Scripture” which would also be characteristic of Satan’s behavior.
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