The Nehor wrote:To forever end the crazy idea that women are inferior.
Do you feel it was successful in putting an end to that notion?
The TBM class member who responded after I felt that it was precisely because women were inferior (i.e., had to prepare the body for burial) that they had the experience.
I am not sure I have ever encountered a more egregious example of interpreting the New Testament 180 degrees opposite from what it plainly means.
All the Best!
--Consiglieri
You prove yourself of the devil and anti-mormon every word you utter, because only the devil perverts facts to make their case.--ldsfaqs (6-24-13)
consiglieri wrote:Do you feel it was successful in putting an end to that notion?
Nope. It was a valiant try though.
The TBM class member who responded after I felt that it was precisely because women were inferior (i.e., had to prepare the body for burial) that they had the experience.
Which is a ridiculous rationalization. Jesus is a resurrected God at this point with all the powers that entails. He could have gone to the apostles first if he had wanted to. He CHOSE not to.
I am not sure I have ever encountered a more egregious example of interpreting the New Testament 180 degrees opposite from what it plainly means.
I have but then I've read Left Behind.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
The Gnostic gospels reveal that Jesus gave women, Mary, in particular, quite a bit of apolistic power in the Church, which the 12, Peter, most vocally, were not happy about.
How about to ensure that word got spread around a lot faster? Let's face facts, if a man were the first to see Him, it would be days and days before the man bothered to tell one of his buds. Probably over a beer or during the chariot races the next Sunday. But by appearing to the gals, it was for sure that word would get out in mere minutes, during coffee, or at the scroll club meeting, or yoga class.
I'm more that half joking, but not entirely joking. Women ARE more social than men (good for them, I say!!) and maybe Jesus was counting on that fact. He made them, after all.
