You've only read six books in the Bible?
I will type in green to distinguish from your text. Yes I am a noob to Bible reading and comprehension , that is why I dont quote from the Bible. Currently reading Psalms.
Yes, there are male Jezebels (the Bible also mentions more male witches than female witches). And while females can only have Jezebel
and Eunuch spirits (two), men can have Jezebel, Eunuch,
and Ahab spirits (three). This is in accordance with the Scripture:
"To whom much is given, much will be required (Luke 12:48). God gave men more than He gave women (yes, it's not politically correct anywhere to say this), but the more one has, the more responsibility one gets; or
the more responsibility one has, the more God gives to them. Men are responsible for the building of the whole world and the protection and managing of everything, therefore, it was necessary for God to give men more [tools] than He gave women. It's practical math; it has nothing to do with favor or value.
Therefore, the person (ie. men) with greater capacity for good... is also the person (ie. men) who has greater capacity for evil. That's the way it works and is why God placed greater blame on King Ahab (who didn't overtly harm anyone) than on Queen Jezebel (who overtly harmed people all the time) as also was the case with Adam and Eve (sin entered through the man though the woman sinned first).
Okay very interesting so far, I didnt know this. So these spirits God gave men and women, the men get it harder but it evens out in the end?
Marianne has a site where she has excellent articles about the Jezebel spirit in both women and men. Here are two articles:
The charismatic male Jezebel:
https://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/...jezebel-conquest-by-romance-and-assimilation/.
The conflict-oriented male Jezebel:
https://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/the-conflict-oriented-male-jezebel/.
Wow a few sentences in and the word Narcissism jumps out at me. I was married to the first and was involved with the second. Both really do a mind f**k on you.
I mentioned Jezebel as it operates and manifests in
females because
I like to address only one thing at a time since there are thousands of different things in play, so it wouldn't be wise to try to try to talk about all of them at once.
Yes, the Bible mentions the 'Wall of Hostility' but not in those words. The Bible rarely uses our contemporary words when talking about issues that are deeper than surface level. For instance, we talk about narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (or NPD). The Bible talks about this 'disorder' very often, but it rarely uses one word like we do (eg. 'narcissist'). Rather, it uses words like "mocker, scoffer, insolent pride", etc. Some people in the Bible who had what we'd call NPD (ie. who were narcissists) were Pharaoh who wouldn't let Israel go, King Nebuchadnezzar, Queen Jezebel, and many of the religious leaders who pursued and persecuted Jesus and then later His apostles. DC Robertsson has a site that unfolds NPD in the Bible. He writes:
"You may have found this blog because you have a 'narcissist' in your life, or in the life of someone you care about. At first, you may not have known that you were dealing with a narcissist, but the pain and damage this selfish, arrogant, condescending, domineering person caused might have driven you to search for answers on what was going on, and on how to deal with this difficult person... In the process of trying to learn everything possible in your search for answers, you may have decided to explore what the Bible has to say on the subject...
While the Bible does not specifically refer to 'narcissism' – which takes its name from Greek mythology –
it does speak to the subject. "
Thats pretty much how most people find out about NPD I believe, as was in my case being married to it and I did not know it had a name until a professional told me.
https://biblicalperspectivesonnarcissism.com/.
In the Bible, what was written for one occasion and in one context often is also used for other occasions and other contexts. For example, when Paul talks about "the Law", he is at least 90% of the time talking about the Law of Moses
because of his audience.
However. There are other 'laws' (eg. laws of physics, laws of mathematics, laws of attraction, spiritual laws, man's laws, etc.) to which some of the things Paul says about the Mosaic Law can be applied. An example is here:
"[Jesus] Himself is
our peace, who has
made both one, and has broken down
the middle wall of separation, having
abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is
, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself
one new man from the two, thus
making peace, and that He might
reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby
putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached
peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him
we both have access by one Spirit to the Father" (Ephesians 2:14-18).
All of that is talking about "the middle wall of separation" between Jews and Gentiles.
However. All of that can also be applied to "the middle wall of separation"
between men and women-- the wall which was raised from
the Curse that was put into effect right after
the Fall. So, first there was the Fall (Adam and Eve sinned), then there was the Curse (God pronounced curses on everyone due to man's sin), then there was the Wall (one of the effects of the Curse). While dealing out the effect of the Fall (ie. the Curse), God told Eve,
"I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you"(Genesis 3:16). Since all those things were curses, it means that Eve's desire being for her husband is a bad thing. The explanation, then, isn't about her romantic desire for him but her desire to control him-- literally her desire would now be to make sure he did what she wanted him to do rather than what God or he wanted to do. Before the Fall, it was opposite of this: Adam did what God and he wanted to him to do (two people), and Eve did what God, Adam, and she wanted her to do (three people). After the Fall, Eve was no longer God or Adam but only herself;
moreover, she would now be inclined to try to control both God and Adam (or to steer Adam away from God).
The main takeaway from this curse (the Wall as regards women) is not really about the man nearly as much as it is about God: the woman would no longer desire God's involvement in her life (practically speaking: lifestyle, etc.; this doesn't include going to church) and would have the mindset of "Girls just wanna have fun" with every concept or notion of 'responsibility' and 'accountability' being faux pas and an abomination. This is the standard thing I see when I look at heterosexual interactions, relationships, and marriages today.
Do you think this is the case also with Christian women?
Cassie Jaye, the woman in the following 15-minute video, used to be a feminist and set out to prove that the Men's Rights Movement hated women. (Men rarely hate women. On the other hand, the Wall often makes women feel hate for men. Women don't know about this Wall, but because people automatically justify their emotions and feelings these women constantly try to justify their hatred for men by blaming and tearing men down. But on listening closely to them, there are very rarely if ever any justifiable or logical reasons for their misandry. They often think men hate women (misogyny) because
they hate men (misandry) and can't figure out why, so they grasp for reasons everywhere.) Cassie's experience caused the veil over her eyes (the Wall) to begin to break up enough for her to begin to see the truth. She abandoned feminism as a result.
The video was fascinating. From my disappointment with modern feminism I have tried to stay away from gender rights movements because it seems, to have their cause move forward they need to trample on their so called oppressors. Cassie mentions that she was not listening to her interviewees and I can see that happening in many marriages especially with women. Can women admit this, most of us ask our husbands a question and we have an answer ready, a translation of what we think he means. Why do we do this?
A lot of what she discovered during her research I had heard Jordan Peterson talk on.
So my question is do we need gender equality? Some of us already are waking up and learning to appreciate the differences between men and women.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain all of that. Sorry if my editing/quoting sux.