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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are indeed questions and they are directly questioning the passivity that so many evangelical women willingly participate in.

Meanwhile while these same women here are saying superior things like “She is a false teacher”( because she doesn’t believe what I do), mourning over her “losing her way” theologically - that sounds pretty condescending, saying you’re sad because you were lied to because people promoted her to you as a real person of faith. (Instead of questioning a system where you’re being told who to follow). It all contradicts and doesn’t make sense.

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We view Christianity as objectively true and you’re framing it as if we’re picking favorite flavors of ice cream. There are things that are gray areas in Christian doctrine (eschatology, for example), but Jen is playing with core doctrines of the faith, and when you do that, you would definitely be considered a false teacher. Same as a math teacher who taught you 2+2 can equal 5. Well, no.

We all have people we look up to and learn from. People whose wisdom earns our respect. You have those people.  at least
I hope you do. And if those people go off the rails, it’s easy to feel hurt. No one told me to follow Jen. People shared her stuff, and I checked her out. She was funny. I was unimpressed by the one book I read and moved on as she obviously began deconstructing.  I’m not sure why that whole process wouldn’t be understandable to you. [/quote]

Jen is (or was) a pastor. A woman as a pastor is absolutely a “flavor” of Christianity that more conservative faith traditions do not accept. You’re proving yourself wrong and pointing out your own contradictions.

We’re all here on a gossip board, a patently “unchristian” place to be. Guising it as concern or sadness is actually cracking me up. It’s like when people air out gossip via prayer 😂 [/quote]

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