Someone posted on our forums comments about Sarah Palin. She didn’t think this went well with many Evangelical views. The topic was here: http://www.singleC.com/christian-dating
Her is her argument. See if you agree. God gives authority to the position of judge (Judges 2, Romans 13:1-5), which Deborah held because men sinfully abdicated this proper sphere of men and left it to a woman. Providentially Deborah assumed the seat of judgment and was a faithful servant to God. Barak wouldn’t go to war, unless Deborah came with him and directed him in battle. The Bible is clear that because of his cowardice, he would not get the glory for saving the Israelites, rather the Lord would give that glory to a woman (Jael, a woman of the tents, a “tent-wife” not a civil ruler). This was an embarrassing rebuke to Barak because the Biblical norm is that a man receives glory for godly leadership. Throughout the rest of Scripture, men went to war with God against the Canaanites, received the glory and praise for saving their women and children, and were military and civil leaders (also see Nehemiah). But in this case, the men had turned away from God and were worshipping false gods. (Judges 2 and 3, esp. Judges 2:10-23) Deborah ruling over them was a judgment (Isaiah 3:11-12).
Throughout Scripture, including in the book of Judges, God tells us that men are supposed to be the leaders and rulers in the home, church, and civil sphere and when women desire/men abdicate the man’s role it’s a curse. That’s 4,000 years of cultures, with God not changing and still saying the same thing.
Christian men and women should be fulfilling their respective roles outlined in Scripture, obeying God. Women should be cherished, provided for and taken care of from cradle to grave by their fathers, husbands, and sons. Women should spend their lives serving God and their men as servant-followers as unto the Lord (and the men in their lives are servant-leaders, following in the footsteps of God Himself Who modeled servant-leadership). A hundred to a hundred and fifty years ago in this country, maybe four generations ago, this was the norm in this country because the founding of this country was openly unashamedly Christian and based explicitly in Biblical principles (yes, the Bible was in the civil sphere).
Unfortunately, most professing Christians in this country now hate the Word of God and argue against it every chance they get. Oh, how they despise the law of God (though God says a believer finds His law “sweeter than the honeycomb”–strange). Christians have been asleep at the wheel, and the humanists have staged a coup d’etat. (Satan’s minions may have won the battle, but they have lost the war, Christians!) Every reason under the sun is given by professing Christians why we should not obey God (though God equates obeying Him with loving Him). Scripture is full of these rebellions by God’s people. The answer? to repent and obey God again. He will forgive, if the repentance is genuine, as evidenced by joyful obedience. If Christians would follow Christ, instead of putting their own opinions above the truth of God’s Word, we (God working through us) would turn this country around tomorrow; well, maybe it would take a week.
We feminists (as we all are, both men and women, in our natural, sinful selves) worry constantly about ourselves, our rights, our goals, our material benefits, our health, our comforts. What will become of us? The answer is that God will take care of us, and bring us home to Him. He especially loves the widow and fatherless who love Him, which includes daughters and unmarried women abandoned by their erstwhile fathers, husbands, and sons, I believe. The truth is that our lives are not our own, and our agenda is worthless; we belong to God.
My parents aren’t Christians and believe (just exactly the same as most professing Christians, although it is contrary to God’s Word) that their unmarried daughters shouldn’t live with them. I am not married, and the men around me seem quite ungodly, feministic, and effeminate–totally uninterested in their roles as men who are called to serve Christ as He commands. Very conformed to the world. They seem kind of confused and wandering and aimless, afraid of marriage and children and responsibility and leadership, not really sure what their purpose is beyond seeking pleasure for themselves. The Bible is very timely, and perfectly addresses these very relevant concerns of our culture. Never in history have we had divorce rates, abortion, homosexual “marriage,” and prolonged singleness, as we do today. How we have forsaken our Lord and His Way!
God is teaching me to walk by faith, not by sight. Sure, marriage to a Christian man looks impossible to me, if I just see the unsuitable men around me, but I’m not alone or left to figure it out for myself. I am betrothed to a sovereign God who can turn men’s hearts where He wills. I am not playing “a numbers game” or hoping to “get lucky” and find my mate. If my Father gives me away to a Christian man in marriage, then I will be content. If my Father decides I should remain unmarried and that is how I can serve Him better, then I will be content.
The only thing I (try to) worry about is how can I learn more about God, develop a deeper relationship with Him, love Him more, obey Him more perfectly, serve Him more effectively. How can I conform my everyday life more and more to what He has told me in His word I should do. When I think how He saved me, I just want to love Him and serve Him. I turn to God’s Word because there is no surer guide and comfort. I do my best to be a witness to my Lord Jesus, though so imperfectly. I remind myself: yes, I am weak, but He is mighty and strong. I pray constantly that He will raise up men in this culture and in my city and country who will love and obey Him. The Spirit must quicken the hearts of men, regenerate them, or no amount of reformation will be possible; we are simply not capable of it in the flesh. I also pray for a Godly husband. That doesn’t mean that God will have me marry, of course, but I am secure in His will.
Kicking against the Word is not the answer to our questions re: how to act in our everyday lives, including voting or doing science or dating or watching movies or visiting our parents or managing our money or serving in public office or caring for the sick or teaching our children or doing evil that good may come or anything else. Saying God’s Word only applies to certain cultures and therefore it is NOT profitable for rebuke, instruction, and training in righteousness is to contradict God. Let’s study the Word and get a better idea of God’s vision and goals for our lives. Let’s pray that we may be humble enough to accept that God’s ways are far better than our ways.
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