Finding Biblical Context For Women 'Are More Easily Deceived'

Curious · 01-19-2020, 06:48 PM

Considering the teaching of the Lord’s Recovery on women; aka the half of the human race that is easily deceived and lacks discernment. Lets just take a little stroll through the ‘pure word of God’ to confirm this ‘unassailable’ truth.

Let’s look at some demonstrations of the lack of discernment and propensity to being deceived in women, and their reliance on men to keep them in line with truth.

Let’s start by gong to…The taking down of the city of Jericho. In a city full of people, only one discerned that the Israelites were the people of the one true God, and that God was the God of all humanity, and was a good and loving God. Only one person perceived that there could be a way to be rescued into their numbers by seeking an opportunity to connect with their spies. Of course, it would have to be a man that would be so able to avoid the deception of his own religious system, and to discern a way that God could enable such a connection to happen. Probably a Noah, or Abraham equivalent. A man who had kept himself clean and lived an upstanding and holy life, yes that’s the type of man that could have been an unhappy Canaanite living in a godless city and believing for a better life with the people of God. After all, this person is noble enough to end up in the lineage of Jesus himself!

[Check out the account in the book of Joshua, chapters 2 and 6, Matthew 1:5 and James 2:25]

Now let’s visit David, surviving in the wilderness, but doing it tough. In desperate need of food and supplies for his men, he approaches a man named Nabal, who wanted to help David, as a discerning male. Yet his wife, Abigail sent insults back to David instead. This nearly caused David to break out in a violent attack on Nabal’s household. Only the wise and discerning Nabal saved the day by negating his foolish and short-sighted Wife’s intentions and bravely approaching the furious David directly with an apology and the provision David had requested.

[Check out the story in 1 Samuel chapter 25]

Next let’s look at the divine conception. Naturally God spoke to Joseph about this first, as the male and the authority over her. Poor dear Mary would not have been able to discern an angel speaking to her, after all, being an easily deceived woman without discernment. And of course, God can only speak to a woman through her husband, so she had to wait to hear it from him to learn what was happening to her in becoming mysteriously pregnant. That must’ve been a bit tough on her, but what else can God do when all daughters of Eve are thusly unable?

[From Luke 1;26-38]

Not long before Jesus death, he was sitting in a house of a Simon the leper, in a room with his 12 male disciples. Amongst them, someone got up and preformed the priestly duty of anointing his body for burial. One person in that room felt the leading of the Holy Spirit to do so, no one else had a clue what was going on except Jesus and the person performing the anointing. Naturally, it could only be a man, firstly, to have such a discernment and secondly, only a man could perform the priestly duties. Yes, absolutely had to be a man.

[Found in the book of Matthew 26:6-13]

Another telling story is that of Pilate and his wife. Pilate felt, from a dream he had the night before, that he should have nothing to do with the crucifixion of Jesus, yet his wife pressed him to use this as an opportunity to further his career. Poor deceived woman, going for the temporary things and ignorant of the spiritual level of what was taking place.

[Matthew 27:19-26, and Luke 23:12]

Do these stories back the notion that women cannot discern and are easily deceived? Or is it as often as not that women are the ones WITH the discernment? And wouldn’t these biblical accounts of events unfold differently if WL’s ideas were actually supported by the bible?

I have one last and obscure point. MAYBE Eve was more easily deceived than Adam because she was younger than him and had therefore had less time and opportunity to develop her relationship with God directly. If men can also be deceived and women can sin deliberately, then the two propensities exist throughout human nature and are not gender exclusive. Maybe the real lesson is to get to know God and remain close to Him to avoid either mistake of being deceived OR caught up in wilful disobedience?

Maybe even Pauls words to women to be ‘silent’ in the church were not God casting a prohibition on all women for all time, as the words ‘listen’ and ‘silence’ in the English language contain the exact same letters as each other, maybe Gods message to us is to ‘listen’ to God to get to know Him and His ways, and that protects us all from being too quick to air our assumptions and be easily deceived! Just a thought.

01-19-2020, 06:48 PM	#1
Curious Member Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 186	Finding Biblical Context For Women 'Are More Easily Deceived' Considering the teaching of the Lord’s Recovery on women; aka the half of the human race that is easily deceived and lacks discernment. Lets just take a little stroll through the ‘pure word of God’ to confirm this ‘unassailable’ truth. Let’s look at some demonstrations of the lack of discernment and propensity to being deceived in women, and their reliance on men to keep them in line with truth. Let’s start by gong to…The taking down of the city of Jericho. In a city full of people, only one discerned that the Israelites were the people of the one true God, and that God was the God of all humanity, and was a good and loving God. Only one person perceived that there could be a way to be rescued into their numbers by seeking an opportunity to connect with their spies. Of course, it would have to be a man that would be so able to avoid the deception of his own religious system, and to discern a way that God could enable such a connection to happen. Probably a Noah, or Abraham equivalent. A man who had kept himself clean and lived an upstanding and holy life, yes that’s the type of man that could have been an unhappy Canaanite living in a godless city and believing for a better life with the people of God. After all, this person is noble enough to end up in the lineage of Jesus himself! [Check out the account in the book of Joshua, chapters 2 and 6, Matthew 1:5 and James 2:25] Now let’s visit David, surviving in the wilderness, but doing it tough. In desperate need of food and supplies for his men, he approaches a man named Nabal, who wanted to help David, as a discerning male. Yet his wife, Abigail sent insults back to David instead. This nearly caused David to break out in a violent attack on Nabal’s household. Only the wise and discerning Nabal saved the day by negating his foolish and short-sighted Wife’s intentions and bravely approaching the furious David directly with an apology and the provision David had requested. [Check out the story in 1 Samuel chapter 25] Next let’s look at the divine conception. Naturally God spoke to Joseph about this first, as the male and the authority over her. Poor dear Mary would not have been able to discern an angel speaking to her, after all, being an easily deceived woman without discernment. And of course, God can only speak to a woman through her husband, so she had to wait to hear it from him to learn what was happening to her in becoming mysteriously pregnant. That must’ve been a bit tough on her, but what else can God do when all daughters of Eve are thusly unable? [From Luke 1;26-38] Not long before Jesus death, he was sitting in a house of a Simon the leper, in a room with his 12 male disciples. Amongst them, someone got up and preformed the priestly duty of anointing his body for burial. One person in that room felt the leading of the Holy Spirit to do so, no one else had a clue what was going on except Jesus and the person performing the anointing. Naturally, it could only be a man, firstly, to have such a discernment and secondly, only a man could perform the priestly duties. Yes, absolutely had to be a man. [Found in the book of Matthew 26:6-13] Another telling story is that of Pilate and his wife. Pilate felt, from a dream he had the night before, that he should have nothing to do with the crucifixion of Jesus, yet his wife pressed him to use this as an opportunity to further his career. Poor deceived woman, going for the temporary things and ignorant of the spiritual level of what was taking place. [Matthew 27:19-26, and Luke 23:12] Do these stories back the notion that women cannot discern and are easily deceived? Or is it as often as not that women are the ones WITH the discernment? And wouldn’t these biblical accounts of events unfold differently if WL’s ideas were actually supported by the bible? I have one last and obscure point. MAYBE Eve was more easily deceived than Adam because she was younger than him and had therefore had less time and opportunity to develop her relationship with God directly. If men can also be deceived and women can sin deliberately, then the two propensities exist throughout human nature and are not gender exclusive. Maybe the real lesson is to get to know God and remain close to Him to avoid either mistake of being deceived OR caught up in wilful disobedience? Maybe even Pauls words to women to be ‘silent’ in the church were not God casting a prohibition on all women for all time, as the words ‘listen’ and ‘silence’ in the English language contain the exact same letters as each other, maybe Gods message to us is to ‘listen’ to God to get to know Him and His ways, and that protects us all from being too quick to air our assumptions and be easily deceived! Just a thought.