Obviously you both value being practical over against being emotional.

Question: What makes being emotional some kind of insult?

Since man was made in the image of God, and woman was taken from man (thus they were created- male and female); emotions obviously are part of being in the image of God. Why have you determined that being emotional is an insult?

I have never seen one tiny bit of proof that men make better decisions than women or are better exegetes. We know that females score slightly higher on some verbal assessment tools – they are better at spelling and foreign languages. Therefore women should make up the bulk of exegetical studies and text crit. I think I sometimes expect men to perform at too high a level in this area and am often disappointed.

Thankfully God is sovereign and Jesus will build His church.

In Christ,
Steve

You say that women are more emotionally driven but you do encourage men to listen to women. I am glad for that.

I worry that men who do exegesis without really listening to women fall into error.

Here are two examples,

Kostenberger writes,

While the senses “source” and “pre-eminent” have been proposed for kephalē, no passage is extant where that sense is favored by the context. In fact, every time one person is referred to as the “head” of another person in both biblical and extrabiblical literature, the person who is the “head” has authority over the other person and kephalē conveys the notion of authority.

Grudem writes,

I once looked up over 2,300 examples of the word “head” (kephal¯e) in ancient Greek. In these texts the word kephal¯e is applied to many people in authority, but to none without governing authority:

* the king of Egypt is called “head” of the nation

But here are the exact quotes that they are working from,

the whole family of the Ptolemies was exceedingly eminent and conspicuous above all other royal families, and among the Ptolemies, Philadelphus was the most illustrious; for all the rest put together scarcely did as many glorious and praiseworthy actions as this one king did by himself, being, as it were, the leader of the herd, and in a manner the head of all the kings. Moses 2:30

For continual appearances of good models stamp impressions closely resembling themselves on all souls which are not utterly obdurate and intractable; (115) and I say this with reference to those who wish to imitate models of excellent and admirable beauty, On Rewards and Punishment 114

The person that is “head” is specifically “pre-eminent.” That is a fact. The head, however, is not the authority over the one that he or she is the head of. He is a model of excellence to be imitated because he is “pre-eminent.”

This is the very best example that Grudem could find to prove that kephale meant authority over, and it only shows pre-eminence, which Kostenberger denies.

Why? I just don’t understand how people can say the exact opposite of what is true. Is this because I, as a woman, am too emotional, that I don’t see that the examples prove authority instead of pre-eminence, as Kostengerger argues. Is it because K is man, and I am a woman, that what he says is accepted as true?

That’s cool, but I was very serious in mentioning the topic. And since when did “waste of time” prevent you or anyone else from debating on this blog?? )

I feel that many women dress and look a certain way albeit subconsciously in order to fit in to the male-dominated arena in which they are trying to succeed. It’s almost as if women think that men won’t taken them seriously if they look like women. I partly blame feminism gone awry, and I partly blame men. But since you bailed on the topic, I guess I’m left with my theories (the aforementioned and others) and no examples of beautiful, brilliant women to prove me wrong. No worries.

Quixote:
Sorry but I feel the topic is kind of silly and a waste of time so I’m gonna sit the rest of this out.

Later.

Actresses don’t count!!! But you sort of proved my point. Thanks. (FYI: I don’t hang out at MIT, but I’ve seen a few students and none are Bosworthesque.)

I said that no ladies in stellar Academia or Politics or even Business (although I may rescind the business category) are
also beautiful. Please prove me wrong.

But I never said that actresses aren’t pretty. Duh. Nor did I say they can’t be smart. Geena Davis is a Mensa member! But she’s an actress, and only played a president on TV. )