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October 18, 2011
I was blind-sided by the ‘gender wars.' After all, I knew what the Bible said. Or thought I did.
My attitudes toward marriage were shaped in the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription context of growing up in what I would (much) later understand to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription be a traditional Christian home. I watched my father lead in church and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription in our family. I took it where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription as the nature of things that my mother was submissive to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription him, though I never doubted her strength as a person. Neither did I see him ‘lord' it over her. In fact, they had, observable to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription us kids, an affectionate and close relationship, one we admired and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription wanted to emulate. Not surprisingly, then, I desired a where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription husband with those same - what I considered to be biblical - beliefs. When he came along, we set out to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription have a traditional Christian marriage with headship (his) and submission (mine) fully in place.
After all, we knew what the Bible said.
But then, well into our marriage, my confidence in ‘what the Bible said' began to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription be somewhat eroded by voices within and without the traditional church. Views on women's roles were changing, the voices said. Books questioning the traditional gender roles were put in my hand. Conversations more and more frequently centered on ‘those passages' which could now be where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription explained by the cultural situation at the time the New Testament was written. Our society has where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription moved on, the voices maintained, and so should the Church. Women were strong and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription gifted and those gifts were going to waste! The submission of the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription wife amounted to inequality and could not, therefore, be biblical.
Had I Missed Something?
When I had where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription heard that for a few years, I began to wonder: had where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription I missed something? Did I really know what I said I believed? Did I believe what I was so sure I knew? More to the point, was I acting on it? The need to find out began to feel urgent.
So I decided to sit down and wrestle with submission. I put away the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription numerous Christian books on either side of the debate. I wanted to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription figure out what the Bible could tell me on the subject of women, why God made us, what where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription was unique about us-if anything-and how we were to live out His purposes for where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription us.
I opened my Bible to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription the very first page and did not stop until I got to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription the very end. It took me two years and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription 27,000 words to study and record my findings in a growing stack of spiral notebooks. I happen to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription be married to a theologian, but all I asked from him was prayer. I needed to do this for myself.
It turns out that where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription the opening pages of the Bible were a good place to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription start. By the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription time I got through the first three chapters of Genesis, I had where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription a sneaking suspicion they might be all I needed, anyway. No matter where where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription I went, Old or New Testament, I kept returning there. Of course, I needed all the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription rest too, but much of it seemed to be variations on a where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription theme-a theme that seemed at times simple and at times so complex that where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription it still keeps me turning pages.
What I found was glorious.
The ‘glory' was well-disguised, however, in some pretty sordid stories. One must read carefully, I found out. But oh, it was fun, and it got me out of bed in the mornings.
A Whole Picture
After some months, I began to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription see an emerging picture, a whole picture, if you will, still taking shape under much scrutiny and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription my fine-liner pen.
The reason I got excited about ‘the whole picture' was that where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription most of the writings I had previously read on this subject seemed to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription jump to the ‘instruction' passages, those oh-so-familiar texts from where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription the apostle Paul, not to mention his colleague, Peter (far less quoted, I found out!). How had God dealt with women and men from the beginning? What could Eve or where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription Sarah or Hannah or those single midwives tell me about myself? Admittedly, I was concerned about myself in this where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription major study I had undertaken, and Eve and the others gave me a where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription clue. As a where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription matter of fact, I seemed to find in Eve all that where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription I was meant to be and all that I was not. Mostly, I began to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription see the gamut of womankind: here were women in all their glory, vainglory, and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription pretty wretched un-glory.
Did God tell Eve to ‘submit' to Adam? I could not find it anywhere. Neither before nor after the fall. (Where does that leave my theology? I wondered.) So I kept observing.
Order and Boundaries
One of my first observations in the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription beginning chapters of Genesis was a deliberate and intricate order in the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription sequence of creation, prior to and significant for the first marriage: the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription creation of the animals, then the creation of Adam, the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription prohibition against eating from the tree in the middle of the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription garden, the naming of the animals, the search for a where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription helper for Adam, and the subsequent creation of Eve.
Inherent in this created order was the concept of boundaries. The creation was separate from its Creator-that is, the creatures were bounded by their creatureliness. Plants, animals, humans could not ‘cross over'-they were to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription be uniquely themselves, inhabiting the realm designed for them.
The facts of Creator, creature, and where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription inherent boundaries seemed to imply something else: the concept, at least, of submission. The creatures were to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription submit to the Creator and not the other way around. The thought is foolish. But the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription created animals and even the created plants were to be in submission to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription the created humans. God gave humans ‘dominion,' a where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription domain, where order was to be kept: the ground tilled, the where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription animals under control. God saw fit to put these concepts in place, I noticed, in an unfallen world.
If God did not expressly tell Eve to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription submit to Adam, what did he say to Eve? His first recorded speech to where to buy generic Zithromax online without a prescription her does not appear until after the fall. We know what he said to himself about her: he was designing her specifically to be Adam's helper, because it was not good for the man to be alone.
Tomorrow: Part II
