= Mounting

2 Corinthians 12:9

^{9 "}And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

What if I allowed the other to complete me in my wholeness? 

Man's strength and woman's strength are different, but does that make them unequal?

Why are women given the supporting role, when men have the supporting strength?

I feel like women, especially American women, are selling ourselves short because we've bought a bill of goods that says this is our role. 

Who defines our role? 

God? 

Who is god? 

The Bible? 

Who wrote the Bible? 

Men. 

Men wrote the Bible. 

There are only two stories in which a woman is a central character, Ruth and Esther. 

Two out of 66.  

3% of the Bible is "about" women nominally, but women are supposed to submit to men in all things (Ephesians 5-22-25**)  

and be silent in church (1 Corinthinans 14:34***) 

and play a major only through a man, aka Mary, the mother of Jesus. 

Yet men, usually pastors, or elders, or priests insist god told women to take a submissive role, women to be B status and must differ to their husband in all things.  

Women are blamed for the fall of man because Eve ate the fruit and offered it to Adam (Genesis 3:6****)

Women are not allowed to be priests or take masculine roles in anything having to do with the church, as if men has some superior connection god and have more insight and understanding of spiritual things.

And of course, we can thank Jesus for his wonderful role model behavior as a man exemplifying how all men should behave; but he is not recorded as being married and only refers to a wife as "the church." 

Now women are being denied leadership roles in the church: they are never permitted A status to their husbands, but at the same time Jesus is the model man who is treating the church as a dependent on Himself, and so effectually handicapping men from being masculine and women from being anything. Men are supposed to be heads of their wife as Jesus is the head of the church and yet, the church is made up of men therefore making men dependent on Jesus. 

Is it a wonder that men are emasculated and women are disempowered in every respect except in the area of childbirth?

If women don't get married and have children then they are effectively useless and powerless.

And women are taught that if they assert themselves or their perspective then they will damage their male counterpart's ego and emasculate him as a man, not to mention dishonor God and go against nature and everything godly.

In addition to that, women are characterized as the weaker sex, and if women assert they are strong then they are characterized as being feminist and wanting to be superior to men. 

What is equal anyway? 

Certainly not sameness because we are not the same. 

Equal opportunity? 

Perhaps, but what does equal mean?

What does it look like? 

And don't - do not - tell me to look in the Bible for the answer to that question. 

^**22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. ²⁴ Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives beto their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

^***34 Let your^[a] women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.

^****6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.