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<DIV>Why Are you so Bitter?</DIV>
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<DIV>Doug! </DIV> <BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: J Ford <privatejf32@hotmail.com><BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Sent: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:53:36 -0800<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] God's Choosing<BR><BR>
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<DIV class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_e66e9ad5-ee68-40d8-959a-a48dd2b8e7a3>I think you need to look at the way women are chosen by God throughout the history of the Bible and humankind in His choices for their roles in His World; for instance, there is Eve, (mother of us all), there is Debra, Ruth, Esther, Rahab, Mary (Mother of Jesus), Mary Magdalene, the two women Jesus FIRST presented Himself to after His resurrection, etc. (Remember that the men, the "disciples" of Jesus doubted His resurrection even when He first presented Himself to them and even ate among them.) <BR> <BR>Then there are numerous examples of women fighting beside/in place of the men in their society, both in war and at home (remember Rosie the Riveter or the women fighter pilots in WWII? How about the women who fought beside the men during the Revolutionary War?) <BR> <BR>The list is lengthy and diverse in the showing of God's use of women to teach, to lead and to be examples of His Way and Truth. <BR> <BR>Are there things men can do that woman can't do? To some extent, yes. Just as there are things women can do that men can't. But why limit women to submissive roles when it is clear God has always held them in high regard and esteem and use? Who are you to say God is wrong in making women able to choose what it is they want to do? <BR> <BR>Seems to me if CCer's truly felt women were no better than baby poppin', bread makin', house cleanin' servants to their men, they wouldn't allow them to enter their colleges or work at educating their "future leaders" - which, I might add, have girls as well as boys in their elementary, jr./sr. high schools. <BR> <BR>J :] <BR> <BR>_________________________________________________________________ <BR>FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! <A href="http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/" target=_blank>http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/</A> <BR> <BR>_____________________________________________________ <BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <A href="http://www.fsr.net" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A> <A href="mailto:Vision2020%40moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</A> <BR>ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ <BR></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_0_e66e9ad5-ee68-40d8-959a-a48dd2b8e7a3 --></DIV></DIV>
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