tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post3276784216411552607..comments2023-10-31T09:33:01.781-04:00Comments on McilWeb: Stop in the Name of LoveKeith H. McIlwainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14661248415435540954noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-77385948911276623452009-09-29T12:59:24.285-04:002009-09-29T12:59:24.285-04:00Hi I followed you here from Twitter, and what a gr...Hi I followed you here from Twitter, and what a great post! <br /><br />As a female who once lived under subjugation of the Church in marriage, I was reminded of feeling much like the beaten man left and ignored on the side of the road. Clergy all around me, and yet I could not get a clear garden word about the interpretation of the female free of contradiction and hypocrisy in God. All I got was just submit, and it was to a situation which proved detriment in my life, certainly not of a blessing. Yes God will keep you, but that God will keep you does not mean that you are supposed to be there.<br /><br />I think the day will come upon His Return when he will say, who did you really say I was to her? <br /><br />I can assure you from years of pain and trauma from my own experiences, the real message of the Church to the female struggling with such issues is not that he is in fact their God, but that he is a tyrant as a god who doesn't even have the decency to love his children equally or to foresee the needs of a future female. That he even as God, is content to leave her destitute with a mere man charged by God to lord over her, and given such authority in marriage whether he is really living righteously or not. But I thought God was a jealous God and that a fallen, arrogant Adam lodging accusation only was a man created from the "dust?"<br /><br />I now know better of God but it is only a result of His personal work in my life despite that of the Church, yet many are simply lost, or even as I almost was, they don't even come to Him at all. Often even if they do, they exist undetected, smiling and clapping but thinking..."ain't no way"...yet all you hear her speak is "Praise the Lord" and "Hallelujah!"<br /><br />How much of the Hebrew do you employ in your full interpretation of the garden word, specifically how do you discern Genesis 2:23? Who is the man called an "Adam" in the Hebrew by God now seeking to be in calling himself now "Man?" What also does it mean that he not only rejected his own God-given name but suppressed the name of the female as well, calling her now "Woman" and not "Eve?"<br /><br />My point is, even as this man was in drawing what otherwise may have been a last breath, if I or my gender kind am to suffer subjugation by the Church then the Church could at least demonstrate sound knowledge in lining up and even proving the truth of their tradition according to the Hebrew of this word. <br /><br />Otherwise, I am just a beaten, robbed and bloody female abandoned by the side of the road watching clergy walk by me every day, most of the time clinging to tradition and not even bothering to glance my way with a second thought.<br /><br />Yes Keith, this is what you get from the ministry of "The Real Skinny on Eve!" I seek truth about the garden word and I will try you. <br /><br />I love the brothers, but I don't mince this word as I see it and yet I am always open to hearing what others have to say. I even crave it as what matters most is that we rid ourselves and the Church of a female in the precarious position of constantly having need to negotiate and have recognized the full value of her creation, mind, life and call in God.<br /><br />It either is or it isn't, but if it isn't then prove it according to the word and not the tradition. That's all I want. (Honestly, to know me is to love me...really! (lol)).truth in wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00776328825739415045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-89708945262755973832007-07-13T13:17:00.000-04:002007-07-13T13:17:00.000-04:00Good Post...ministry is about rolling up one's sle...Good Post...ministry is about rolling up one's sleeves and changing lives one heart at a time.Randy Rodahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03611170269567077219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-29065728477759775902007-07-12T14:08:00.000-04:002007-07-12T14:08:00.000-04:00Excellent post! It's interesting too that in the ...Excellent post! It's interesting too that in the text, it says that the priest and the levite pass by "on the other side" of the road...indicating that they didn't even want to get close enough to the man to really see what was wrong with him. That would involve a risk that they obviously didn't want to take. How often do we not only fail to offer help to others, but fail to even get close enough to them to really understand the kind of help they need?Jeff Kahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13016581430364691310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-81130035227949169722007-07-10T18:40:00.000-04:002007-07-10T18:40:00.000-04:00He looks the same at accountability group talking ...He looks the same at accountability group talking about how Tracy won't let him eat in the family room.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03977799699814671231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-17058556210319581452007-07-10T16:37:00.000-04:002007-07-10T16:37:00.000-04:00I would stop only if there was a band of photo jou...I would stop only if there was a band of photo journalists catching the entire thing, so that it can be featured in the PPG~ That said, I hang my heavy head and heart, and admit to that same sin. Thanks for that reminder giving me a chance to find God's grace just in the nick of time!<BR/><BR/>Welcome home, the picture of your son in the car, reminded me of Greg as a child, pouting on our vacations. heheBarbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058253555023531063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-40318236555854695982007-07-10T11:23:00.000-04:002007-07-10T11:23:00.000-04:00Wow, throwin the heater right out of the Bull Pen!...Wow, throwin the heater right out of the Bull Pen! Welcome home and great reflection.Greg Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06745007452155543635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-66154692626650512742007-07-09T20:39:00.000-04:002007-07-09T20:39:00.000-04:00Thanks for the good reflection, Keith.Personally, ...Thanks for the good reflection, Keith.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I have always simply assumed that the priest and Levite were Presbyterian clergy, then gleefully let myself off the hook!Eric Parkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14484569506084519086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22297646.post-20195705559087686902007-07-09T15:23:00.000-04:002007-07-09T15:23:00.000-04:00First, good to have you back Keith. Second, I have...First, good to have you back Keith. <BR/>Second, I have often wondered what was going on in the mind of the man who was left to die? I wonder how his life had changed? I wonder what he thought of the "church" after this event?Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03977799699814671231noreply@blogger.com