An important part of the feminist agenda
has been persuading women to degrade themselves by mimicking the sexual
attitudes, behaviour, and aggressiveness of men, which fulfilled male
fantasies, accommodated the baser insticts of men, and lowered the respect of
men for women instead of encouraging women to be the civilising and stabilising
influence on men that they are designed to be. Women have tremendous power and influence over men which they relinquish when they trade the complementary role
for equality. Women civilise men through marriage, monogamy, and family, and it
is very difficult for men to do this on their own without women. But many have
become so accustomed to feminism and the feminist agenda that they do not
realise that feminism degrades women.
Why did the Bible attach
so much importance to feminine virtue? Note that in Bible times it was so
offensive for a woman to marry under the false pretense of virginity because
this was grossly disrespectful to her family (her father's house) and note also that among the
ancient heathens it was common to worship false gods and goddesses by
practicing prostitution and in the heathen cultures surrounding the children of
Israel a girl was expected to lose her virginity through temple prostitution as
an act of worship. (Deuteronomy 22:13, 14, 20, 21) Also, an unmarried woman's
virginity was especially valued and respected because the most binding and
sacred covenants were those that were sealed or confirmed by the shedding of
blood, and marriage is illustrative of Jehovah's union with the Jewish nation
under the Law Covenant and Christ's union with His Church. (Isaiah 54:5;
Jeremiah 3:14; Hosea 2:19-20; Ephesians 5:23-32; also Exodus 24:3-8; Hebrews
9:18-20; 12:24)
In the ancient world
women were often used, abused, discarded, replaced at will, and often regarded
as mere chattels, and the extremely low morals of heathen women was a big
factor in this. Women were designed to be a civilising and stabilising
influence on men, but if they overcome their natural inhibitions they can, and often do, become worse than men. When women are raised to the status of moral superiority
over men this naturally compels men to respect women, while loose morals make women cheap and disposable and encourage abuse. (Proverbs
11:16, 22; 12:4; 14:1; 31:10, 11, 28-30)
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