Christian Writer: Women Having Careers Outside the Home is Unbiblical

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/26/christian-writer-women-having-careers-outside-the-home-is-unbiblical/

Christian Writer: Women Having Careers Outside the Home is Unbiblical
July 26, 2017 by Hemant Mehta

Lori Alexander, a Christian author at a blog called The Transformed Wife, wants women to know that they should never think about careers. A full-time job will only draw attention away from their eventual children and husband, and they shouldn’t defy God like that.

Plus, the Bible said nothing about women having jobs outside the home.

Are older women, as written in the Bible, to be known for their careers? No! They should be known for bringing up children, lodging strangers, washing the saints’ feet, relieving the afflicted, diligently following every good work (1 Timothy 5:10) and teaching the younger women (Titus 2:4). There’s nothing about them having careers.

In fact, if women work after having (the first of what will surely be a double-digit number of) children, they’ll have no one to blame but themselves when the inevitable divorce occurs.

I believe one of the main causes of divorce today is due to women having careers. Women put all of their time and energy into their careers and neglect their husbands. They were created to be their husband’s help meet but they fail to do what God has called them to do because they can’t do everything and are too tired and exhausted to be helpers to their husbands. This is a recipe for failure and marriage is important to the Lord so it should be a priority for us; for marriage is an example to a lost world of Christ and His Church! Plus, when women have careers, they know that they have the freedom to divorce their husbands since they aren’t dependent upon their husbands for provision but God created wives to be dependent upon their husbands. This is a good thing, contrary to popular opinion.

What?! FREEDOM?! Can’t have women learning about that now, can we…?

What if you’re a working woman who has a strong marriage? Well, you’re obviously making God angry.

[RKP5637]

1. FFS! How creepy! n/t

[Mike Nelson]

2. Lori probably...

...should stay home and help the other wives care for the children and oversee the house slaves, if she wants to get really biblical.

[CousinIT]

3. "God" nor the bible never said a DAMN THING about women working outside the home

OR about women being told their sole purpose was to have babies and be manservants.

It's all BULLSHIT. Both what the bible says AND the crap people CLAIM it says.

ALL Bullshit.

I'm so sick of these American Taliban trying to ENSLAVE half the population of this planet because they lack a penis.

B U L L S H I T

"They were created to be their husband’s help meet" <--- OH NO they were not. THIS is why I only live with CATS. The promotion of SLAVERY for women, the IMMORALITY of such and the GOD DAMNED ignorance.

[42bambi]

4. "dependent upon their husband"

God created wives to be dependent upon their husband - really?

Pray tell...what happens to a wife who does not work and is dependent upon their husbands income, and then voila' -- he divorces her!

[ehrnst]

5. So is allowing your neighbor to live if they don't keep the sabbath... (nt)

[raging moderate]

6. I guess she didn't read to the end of Proverbs in the Bible (Old Testament).

Book of Proverbs, Chapter 31, verses 10-31:
"Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.... SHE CONSIDERETH A FIELD AND BUYETH IT: WITH THE FRUIT OF HER HANDS, SHE PLANTETH A VINEYARD....she stretcheth out her hands to the poor; yea, she reacheth out her hands to the needy...SHE MAKETH FINE LINEN AND SELLETH IT, AND DELIVERETH GIRDLES TO THE MERCHANTS....Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates."

Not to mention Lydia, the woman merchant who is a "seller of purple" managing a fairly large business operation, in the sixteenth chapter of the book of Acts.

These ultra-fundamentalists are much more than two thousand years behind the times.

[Iggo]

7. Women are real. The Bible is make-believe. (n/t)

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8. Pretty sure my creepy, fundy, home-schooling, neighbors believe this.