This meme was posted on social media.
"To the women who are aggressive: keep being assertive.
To the women who are bossy: keep on leading.
To the women who are difficult: keep telling the truth.
To the women who are too much: keep taking up space.
To the women who are awkward: keep asking hard questions."
Let's dig into this!
1. To the women who are aggressive: keep being assertive.
It is written in Titus 2:3-5 (emphasis mine) -
In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good, so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.
2. To the women who are bossy: keep on leading.
It is written in 1 Timothy 2:12 -
I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent.
3. To the women who are difficult: keep telling the truth.
It is written in Proverbs 15:1 -
A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
4. To the women who are too much: keep taking up space.
It is written in Ephesians 5:22-24 -
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.
5. To the women who are awkward: keep asking hard questions.
It is written in 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 -
Since God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but should be submissive, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.
All 5 points in this modern abominable urging are anti-scriptural.
I find your reference to the Bible refreshingly encouraging. I am a Christian, and the older I get, the more I find myself driven back to various verses that relate to things that I see happening in our modern world. I attended Bible college in the early 80's, and even then, I saw that there was a movement in our Seminaries to train pastors to question any traditional teachings of the church, and to try to come up with different meanings for many of the established ideas of what God had intended with scripture. Thank you for driving minds back to where we should go.
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