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 The author argues that there are many meanings of the adjective 'biblical.'
November 17th, 2012
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My Take: The danger of calling behavior ‘biblical’
By Rachel Held Evans, Special to CNN On "The Daily Show" recently, Jon Stewart grilled Mike Huckabee about a TV ad in which Huckabee urged voters to support “biblical values” at the voting box. When Huckabee said that he supported the “biblical model of marriage,” Stewart shot back that “the biblical model of marriage is polygamy.” And there’s a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing “biblical values” to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform. It may come as some surprise that as an evangelical Christian, I cheered Stewart on from my living room couch. As someone who loves the Bible and believes it to be the inspired word of God, I hate seeing it reduced to an adjective like Huckabee did. I hate seeing my sacred text flattened out, edited down and used as a prop to support a select few political positions and platforms. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter And yet evangelicals have grown so accustomed to talking about the Bible this way that we hardly realize we’re doing it anymore. We talk about “biblical families,” “biblical marriage,” “biblical economics,” “biblical politics,” “biblical values,” “biblical stewardship,” “biblical voting,” “biblical manhood,” “biblical womanhood,” even “biblical dating” to create the impression that the Bible has just one thing to say on each of these topics - that it offers a single prescriptive formula for how people of faith ought to respond to them. But the Bible is not a position paper. The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own. When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says. Nowhere is this more evident than in conversations surrounding “biblical womanhood.” CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories Growing up in the Bible Belt, I received a lot of mixed messages about the appropriate roles of women in the home, the church and society, each punctuated with the claim that this or that lifestyle represented true “biblical womanhood.” In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 ("I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent"), while Amish women were considered legalistic for covering their heads in compliance with his instructions in 1 Corinthians 11:5 ("Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head"). Pastors told wives to submit to their husbands as the apostle Peter instructed in 1 Peter 3:1, but rarely told them to avoid wearing nice jewelry as the apostle instructs them just one sentence later in 1 Peter 3:3. Despite the fact that being single was praised by both Jesus and Paul, I learned early on that marriage and motherhood were my highest callings, and that Proverbs 31 required I keep a home as tidy as June Cleaver's. Opinion: What all those Jesus jokes tell us This didn’t really trouble me until adulthood, when I found myself in a childless egalitarian marriage with a blossoming career and an interest in church leadership and biblical studies. As I wrestled with what it meant to be a woman of faith, I realized that, despite insistent claims that we don’t “pick and choose” from the Bible, any claim to a “biblical” lifestyle requires some serious selectivity. After all, technically speaking, it is “biblical” for a woman to be sold by her father to pay off debt, “biblical” for a woman to be required to marry her rapist, “biblical” for her to be one of many wives. So why are some Bible passages lifted out and declared “biblical,” while others are explained away or simply ignored? Does the Bible really present a single prescriptive lifestyle for all women? These were the questions that inspired me to take a page from A.J. Jacobs, author of "The Year of Living Biblically", and try true biblical womanhood on for size—literally, no “picking and choosing." This meant, among other things, growing out my hair, making my own clothes, covering my head whenever I prayed, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church (unless I was “prophesying,” of course), calling my husband "master,” even camping out in my front yard during my period to observe the Levitical purity laws that rendered me unclean. During my yearlong experiment, I interviewed a variety of women practicing biblical womanhood in different ways — an Orthodox Jew, an Amish housewife, even a polygamist family - and I combed through every commentary I could find, reexamining the stories of biblical women such as Deborah, Ruth, Hagar, Tamar, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla and Junia. My goal was to playfully challenge this idea that the Bible prescribes a single lifestyle for how to be a woman of faith, and in so doing, playfully challenge our overuse of the term “biblical.” I did this not out of disdain for Scripture, but out of love for it, out of respect for the fact that interpreting and applying the Bible is a messy, imperfect and - at times - frustrating process that requires humility and grace as we wrestle the text together. The fact of the matter is, we all pick and choose. We’re all selective in our interpretation and application of the biblical text. The better question to ask one another is why we pick and choose the way that we do, why we emphasis some passages and not others. This, I believe, will elevate the conversation so that we’re using the Bible, not as a blunt weapon, but as a starting point for dialogue. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rachel Held Evans. soundoff (4,660 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Next »Post a comment
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God cannot exist. It is absurd.
If God did exist, he would be the most reprehensible horrifying monster in the history of the universe.
If god does exist, he created Hitler.
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Modern Jews live in a post-Talmudic world, to say the least, and continue to read the Tanach (or "Old Testament") every week because we don't want to forget where we came from. I have no idea why Christians think it should govern the lives of anyone in the 21st century, and least of all Bible Belt America. It's ridiculous. But religion is what it is. Fundie Christians claim it for themselves, so whatever. But Christians using an ancient people's book to hate and control and legislate is offensive on so many levels that it's hard to know where to begin.
DUMP HINDU ATHEISM, SELF CENTER ISM AND BE A TRUE AMERICAN IN FOLLOWING OF TRUTH ABSOLUTE GOD, I can't find the nonsense translator on Google... can you help me?
Godless and the ungodly, for these are the choices from which commonwealth atheists do make felt upon their habitual senses denying the goodly upon ever moving ways of godly intent. Many young-bucks of godlessness and the ungodly tender to avail themselves with the nailed doldrums' sciatica and do abound with much societal unpleasantries toward the abaters of wanton deniabilities against them, those ungodly and godless beings of smirked vials of randomized intention-abilities. Their deniabilities are not without compromising or so they do entail and also do weave upon the where-with-all seasoned laments.
The mockeries of these godless and ungodly against the goodly who do themselves believe upon godly importance may well live on past all and onto every generation's aged endings. How else could Life Truly End and Real Living thusly Begin? To believe or not believe for these are Life's choices. Christ Jesus came to this world to condemn its ways and yet did He come here to also show how tenderly are His graces upon those being most merciful to others who did so deserve mercy to be freely given by those being most merciful! To believe or not believe for these are Life's choices. Still yet and forever are to be found many grascious mercies, for the mercifilled are one of Life's greatest treasures and livings' sweetest unending rewards.
You are using one hindu, ignorant, not me.
"But Christians using an ancient people’s book to hate and control and legislate is offensive on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to begin."
Word.
lionlylamb = schizophrenic
No, lionlylamb is not a schizophrenic, he/she is most likely foreign language speaking person who tried to translate what he/she wanted to say into English. If you had spiritual understanding, you would gather the meaning out of the post he/she wrote. But as it is, to you it is only a gibberish! So, don't jump to conclusion too quickly!
PRISM 1234,
If you had the knowledge of prior posts by him, you would know that he is definitely a native English speaker, who prides himself on his neologisms and gibberish. Schizophrenic also? Dunno; but "out there", yes.
So, wrong again, PRISM...
LOL! Hold onto your points, you gonna need them, otoh!
their is no word for religion in Hebrew language, but Theen, consti tution of truth absolute, THE WAY OF TRUTH ABSOLUTE GOD, religions and customs are hinduism corruption of truth absolute, never desired nor commanded.
When you post your first comment that actually makes sense, using standard rules of English grammar, then I'll read what you have to say.
It is called free English, American way.
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"It is called free English, American way."
I'm sorry, but that didn't make any sense either. As soon as I can understand at least one sentence of one of your posts, then I'll read what you have to say, and not a moment sooner.
I cannot stand reading articles written by people who aren't lead by the spirit. You cannot pull revelation from the Bible to understand Gods Word without the gift of the Holy Spirit. You are considered Blind, until the Blinders are removed from your eyes. The Paul instructed women shouldn't preach, but knowing how God used a donkey you can easily receive the revelation that God can use WHATEVER HE WANTS; women or men.
Explaining things. what is the word for holy spirit in Hebrew language, if you understood.
"You cannot pull revelation from the Bible to understand Gods Word without the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Imagine that.
"The author argues that there are many meanings of the adjective 'biblical.'"
Really? Astounding insight! I must make a point to buy the book! It sounds like so much fun with all its stories and poems and prophecies. I can't wait to read it and tell all my friends about it and then make my kids read it and then write to my congressmen and demand they read it and to make a law that it has to be in every public school so all the kids can learn the real truth.
So Rachel makes her point that the word "Biblical" is way overused, but she seems to also be making the point that the Bible is unclear about how we should live. It is not unclear. We should not forget that Christianity was once called "The Way." This was because early Christians lived differently from the Greeks and the Jews.
Considering how many letters Paul had to write concerning improper behavior in his Churches not many early Christians had a clear idea about "the Way". Christians did their own thing from the very beginning.
Whoops, regarding the "biblical model of marriage", you forgot about the 10 commandments, this one in particular: Honor your father and mother. A male and female get married, have children, and become a "father and mother". Help us Lord.
No, people have biological male and female parents, but this has nothing to do with marriage because there's nothing to prevent children from several mothers all calling the same man "father" in that Commandment.
Any biblically literate person realizes that biblical marriage means holy matrimony between one man and one woman. To say otherwise is to confuse that standard and to bring in a non-biblical agenda.
Here is why G.ay marriage is fine by me.
1. It's simply the right thing to do.
2. G.a.y parents have been proven to be just as good parents as straight parents. Also, there are countless children waiting to be adopted and G.a.y persons in wedlock are more likely to have children.
3. Children that are raised by G.a.y parents have no more chance of being G.a.y children than any other child. This is a notorious lie that has been perpetuated by hate and the extreme conservative right-wing of American politics. Being G.a.y results from nature, not nurture.
4. To support the troops. "Don't Ask Don't Tell" has been repealed but this doesn't alleviate stress caused by not allowing G.a.y partners to marry. It's not good policy to let G.a.y combatants fight for their country with the uncertainty they have for what might happen to their partner if they die while fighting.
5. To give survivors rights to G.a.y couples. Currently G.a.y partners are not able to fully exercise their right to handle the legal matters of their dying partner and cannot fully be there for them in their final years. This is an insult to humanity to deny G.a.y persons of the dignity of having their most loved and trusted person in the world be there during their last days.
6. For economy stability. Not just for the tax credits that straight married people enjoy, but also for the stability of the American economy. Allowing G.a.y people to get married would give a growing population increased spending power. The tax benefits and extension of credit with two incomes in a married relationship could increase spending in industries such as durable goods, home improvement, automobiles, childcare, services, event planning, the economic benefits are endless!
7. G.a.y people deserve happiness just as much as straight people. Happiness derives from the love and devotion that comes from marriage. While it's true that many G.a.y people are happy with the arrangement they currently have. They have two incomes, successful careers, and if they don't have children they more have more disposable income, but they commonly still feel like something is missing.
8. To reduce depression in adolescents. Giving G.a.y children the hope that they can get married some day and have children in a socially acceptable country will reduce depression among G.a.y young people. Straight children are allowed this freedom and should be no surprise that many G.a.y teenagers experience extreme depression.
9. To reduce G.a.y bullying in schools. If we legalize G.a.y marriage, there will be one less reason for G.a.y children to get teased. They will be less reluctant to be ashamed of their personal preference and will have hope that they can be just as happy as their straight counterparts.
10. To help end the hate and intolerance of h.o.m.o.s.e.xuality in America. Just because America has a long history of prejudice that's no reason to keep perpetuating it. The unwelcoming fringes of our society seems to become accustomed to moving from alienating one demographic to another and the resistance to G.a.y marriage is just another example of prejudice in America.
Oh, also because Gay marriages should be legal everywhere because I would watch the sh.it out of gay divorce court.
charles: there is not once single secular reason to deprive gay people the right to marry whoever they choose.
not everyone believes in your imaginary god. get stuffed.
you should be ashamed to be so ignorant.
It is very obvious that biblical marriage is God's design of one man and one woman united in holy matrimony. To deviate from that standard is to bring confusion into the beautiful understanding of God's intention. And to deviate from that standard is to bring in a non-biblical agenda.
No need to hind, lie on name of truth absolute GOD, but way of hindu Magi's, filthy tricksters, not to spare any one to make a point.
Chuck, according to the bible, biblical marriage is to kill your brother and fuck your mother. Why do you blaspheme brother?
Your statement is meaningless unless you can prove there is a god.
Good for you, and your undersanding of marriage. But I don't believe your Bible is an authoritative text, and I don't believe your concept of marriage is valid. However, I do believe that love is all that matters, and that you haven't moved one inch toward convincing me otherwise.
"It is very obvious that biblical marriage is God's design"
And considering that God is man's design, your entire argument goes nowhere.
those of you who would deprive others of their liberty or equality deserve absolutely no liberty or equality.
you and your ilk shame america.
I'd be happy to find out how many people started doubting their god thanks to these blogs. Probably in the hundreds if not thousands. On the same note, I'd like to know how many started doubting their atheism... probably nobody.
This is true:
2Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.
RazMor, I think you missed my point completely.
If I started quoting bible verses to you, they'd be considered out of context; but, when believers do, it is perfectly fine.
The only way a believer can reason about their faith is through logical fallacies.
What doctrine is there for disbelief? I have no idea what you're talking about.
It's okay, I understand:
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables:
The Bible cannot be used to prove that the Bible is correct. EnjaySea 1:1.
James 4:5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
I can quote my way out of any argument. Razmor 15:6
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Where is your God now?
John Stewart and you both rely on the old testament: the new testament brought a new covenant. Look there for guidance and decision making.
Jennifer, what makes the NT better than the OT? Doesn't the NT rely on the OT for relevance? If there where not OT, there could be no NT. You make no sense.
Then why bother including the OT in the Christian bible? Think of how much less trouble you'd have without the Genesis stories, the Ten Commandments, and all the ethnic cleansing messing with your idea of God being "good" and the "ultimate truth"?
Yeah, because the NT god changed his mind.
How 'perfect' of it.
Their is no new covenant , but hinduism absurdity of hindu, pagan Paul, father of hindu Mithra ism, pagan savior ism, called christianity to hind, fool humanity.,
Old Testament is word per word. New Testament is more spiritual life.
2Co 3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Sure... pick and choose what you like out of your holy book to base your life decisions on. Maybe you should try reality.
FreeFromTheism
He changed it again and we got the Qur'an, and yet again with the Book of Mormon. The guy flip-flops more than Romney.
The OT God is evil , but the NT God is only partially evil. Got it.
That is not picking and choosing and that is not saying that the NT is better than the OT. This is the argument that many atheist use against the Bible...the problem is that it is a very weak argument because it is the very basis of our belief system. The old testament needed these laws and rules to follow because there was no savior. They needed to make sacrifices because nothing had been sacrificed yet. But Jesus has changed that. We are no longer under the Jewish law but under the Grace of Christ. I know many of you will condemn and mock me....and that really is okay... I get it.. I have not always been a Christian and I understand where many of you are coming from. I just pray that your heart is softened as mine was. That is really the only thing that is going to change the way you think about the Bible. None of these arguments mean anything if you don't believe that his word is true. I hate that this lady has given such a weak arguments over a good thought.
I'm not intersted in what the Old Testament has to say, Jennifer, and I couldn't care less what your "new and improved" New Testamant has to say either.
The New Testament lost me on "abandon your mother, your father, your husband, your wife, your children and follow me". Jesus was just another cult jerk, leading people astray with with his charisma, hubris, and idiocy. Why should I believe a single word he said, or Jim Jones, or David Koresh, or Joseph Smith, or Mohammed, or any of the rest of them?
The Bible makes me sick. Poor Constantine needed those slaves to win a civil war, and had no idea what the results would be. Ugh.. watch out who you use to fill your ranks in times of need. You might end up with Jews and Christians running things for 2000 plus years.
Joel sounds like a jew name
I believe it is. I am named after a new york jew billy joel.
What exactly are you asserting? That constantine invented the biblical text?
He was an incredible prophet of God in the OT.
I will have nothing to do with the text in the bible. I will leave that speculation for you all.
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Where is your God now?
God forgives all people for their crimes, but especially brown people.
to agree sets a very dangerous precident for this worlds beautiful children.
do the 56,000,000 aborted children count?
They count on some tallies. But not on a tally of possibly abused children who are abused with an intent to disprove a God's devotion to jews and christians in the midst of a religious awakening and moral decline.
@cindy lou who
According to the bible, God is resposible for every abortion and miscarriage that has every happened in all of history.
"The problem of evil in the world" is a really, really troubling one.
Why does God allow so much pain and suffering, especially when so much of it seems to be gratuitous (unnecessary).
If you are going to criticize the God of Israel, you need to understand that the bible tells us that the problem is not one of Gods making. Humans chose disobedience, as a result all of creation was affected, and evil entered Gods creation.
Horrific things happen every day, the answer is to sign up for a different existence; eternity with God.
So Apple Bush, because PEOPLE DO EVIL THINGS, are you asserting that God does not exist?
Chad, god made us. He knows everything about us. He knows when will be born and when we will die. All fear, hatred, violence and death is God's will. To deny this is to deny God. Blaspheme.
My God has always been there...Without him no one would even understand the concept of right and wrong. And he can make the best out of any situation....I know you can't understand this but that is why he is God and you are not.
@Josh
Right and wrong? God? Who is more evil than God???
@Apple Bush "god made us."
@Chad "correct"
@Apple Bush "He knows everything about us. He knows when will be born and when we will die"
@Chad "correct"
@Apple Bush "All fear, hatred, violence and death is God's will."
@Chad "Whoa.. .tremendous leap to that.. how do you induce that? Where does free will fit in?
remember, knowing ahead of time what we will do by the exercise of our own free will, doesnt obviate that free will, it just means that God can exist outside our time/space and isnt limited by it.
It is not God that is evil...it is man...I think that is pretty easy to see when you look around....It is God who shows us what love is and how we are to live...This is not a concept that man is able to come up with on his own. We are a selfish from day one...it is the love of God that can change you.
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It is fair to take aim at calling things 'biblical' – however – Jon Stewart is a bigot, and should not be taking up the cause.
Also – it's Jon's Jewish Bible that has polygamy. In the Christian Bible – it's 'peace and love' there is very little dogma and no 'fire and brimstone'. Perhaps Jon can take it up with his Rabbi.
No fire and brimstone in the NT ? What do you call this?
2 Thessalonians, 8-9:"In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power."
Besides, OT, NT, it's still the same god isn't it ?
No fire and brimstone in the NT? I think you prove the authors point with regards to selective reading.
The gospels inspire hope and provide some good examples for living in a diverse world. The contributions by Paul, formerly named Saul, are examples of Taliban-like hatred for everything in the world. That's where Christian fanaticism comes from, and it's a shame the Romans never finished the job they started with the lions and all.
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He obviously hasn't evolved enough. Remember, only the strong survive and all that stuff..
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Akira, cool. You like to sit at bar or Teppan grill?
P.S. I am so hungry. I am thinking some Fillet Mignon and tuna Sashimi...I know the chef, so anything you want
How about start at the bar and end up at the grill? And the filet mignon and tuna sashimi sounds DIVINE!
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It sounds like Mrs. Evans has a high view of the Bible.
However, wherever this is true, a submission to it's authority, proper and accurate interpretation of it's contents, and an uncontested exaltation for it's central message – salvation in Jesus Christ – is found. God's Word provides a beautiful clarity for the creature (including the will of the Lord for biblical womanhood). Moreover, it is more than just an "ancient collection" of different literary genres; it is God's potent revelation of redemption. Rather than seeking to discover what the text can do for her and her wants, Evans would do well to strive to shape her life to the glory of Scriptural truth.
well put.
Take your book of fairy tales and put it where a pedophile priest would have his way with you, if you were 8 years old.
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Salvation from what ? Oh, I forgot, from the eternal curse god put on all mankind, because in the beginning two people wanted knowledge.
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