A Woman of Chayil: Far Above Rubies by Jane Carole Anderson

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Originally Posted by OBW

I am too often impressed with the need for the people that push the doctrines (even the ones that I tend to think are likely correct) as if they are the key to salvation, sanctification, and a better "mansion" in the afterlife. But Jesus really didn't talk about any of the nonsense that is being argued in threads like this one..

A problem with creating absolutes out of contingencies is that contingencies change, and in out frailties we can't always keep them ourselves, and our faith diminishes as a result. We become hypocrites, in a word. Jesus pointed out this tendency.

So we compartmentalize our absolutes. In one box we might say that Watchman Nee was instructed by Dora Yu or Margaret Barber. In another we aver that women can't teach, because, well, Paul said so!

The key to survival becomes to never open both boxes at the same time. But the cost is great.