t2hmkr on Nostr: The Church has adopted a lot of worldly thinking. We keep telling women they should ...
The Church has adopted a lot of worldly thinking.
We keep telling women they should invest their time and money preparing for a "backup career" which, theoretically, they plan to never have (except that it is, in fact, THE thing they're "planning" for).
Because it's our expectation that they should be required to protect and provide for *themselves* should they never marry, or be widowed or abandoned. And that if they can't, they should beg the secular government to take up the slack.
If a woman in such a situation has the means to provide for herself, that's great. But it's not biblical to lay that weight on them? The Bible teaches that *families* and, in their absence, *churches* are to provide for widows. (It also teaches that a woman is under her father's headship until she marries, so an unmarried woman should still be provided for by her family of origin.)
The fact that everything is not always ideal doesn't mean we should just ditch biblical thinking altogether and replace it with worldly "wisdom" as our starting point and default.
The net result is that thousands of women are living their "backup plan" *because that's what they set themselves up for.* And families are suffering for it.
#christianity #biblicalwomanhood #biblicalmanhood #thechurch #biblicalworldview #christianfamily #patriarchy
We keep telling women they should invest their time and money preparing for a "backup career" which, theoretically, they plan to never have (except that it is, in fact, THE thing they're "planning" for).
Because it's our expectation that they should be required to protect and provide for *themselves* should they never marry, or be widowed or abandoned. And that if they can't, they should beg the secular government to take up the slack.
If a woman in such a situation has the means to provide for herself, that's great. But it's not biblical to lay that weight on them? The Bible teaches that *families* and, in their absence, *churches* are to provide for widows. (It also teaches that a woman is under her father's headship until she marries, so an unmarried woman should still be provided for by her family of origin.)
The fact that everything is not always ideal doesn't mean we should just ditch biblical thinking altogether and replace it with worldly "wisdom" as our starting point and default.
The net result is that thousands of women are living their "backup plan" *because that's what they set themselves up for.* And families are suffering for it.
#christianity #biblicalwomanhood #biblicalmanhood #thechurch #biblicalworldview #christianfamily #patriarchy