[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Nell

The truth is, apart from God, neither men nor women can meet the needs of the other. Man "ruling over" woman is the trump card that buries her.
This is a woman's perspective. No man's perspective can change the way she views this issue because she is still living with the consequences of her decision to this day.

Nell keeps trying to "bottom line" the wider issue(s) covered in all of Jane's writings, but Mr. Z and others want change the subject. Jane (and Nell and most Christian women in general) have a certain perspective. To start with, their perspective is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong and neither biblical or unbiblical. No man can see through a woman's eyes or walk in her shoes. Just as men, women have an "unalienable", God-given right to their own perspective. For centuries, Christian men have been attempting to deny, nullify and denigrate women's rightful possession of this God-given perspective. They have even used the misinterpretation, misapplication and misunderstanding of certain biblical words, phrases, verses, passages and whole stories to deny, or at least de-legitimatize women's perspective.

Katharine Bushnell's book is nothing more, and nothing less, then a presentation of one Christian women's perspective. Bushnell brings to bear strong linguistic and reasoned proofs of her understandings and contentions in God's word to women. Jane has found these understandings and contentions enlightening, enabling and energizing. Jane then brings to bear some understandings and contentions of her own, backed up by ton of experience, biblical study and just plain feminine moxie (aka Girl Power). I, for one, admire her efforts. She is up against a tsunami of testosterone that has been raging for thousands of years. Good for her. You go, sister, you go!
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