Nurturing the Nations Reclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures

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Nurturing the NationsReclaiming the Dignity of
Women in Building Healthy Cultures

• The Big StoryThe Transforming Story

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Part 4THE TRANSFORMING STORY

• 12 The Big Story
• 13 Genesis 1 Equal in Being
• 14 Genesis 2 Corresponding in Function
• 15 Genesis 3 The Distortion
• 16 Sexism and the Spirit of Baal
• 17 The Coming of the Bridegroom
• 18 The Bride of Christ
• 19 The Wedding of the Lamb
• 20 The Reign of Women Nurturers of Nations

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One of the greatest causes of poverty in the
world is a lie

• Men are superior to women!

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Small Group Work

• Read
• John 844
• Revelation 203, 7-8
• Questions
• Who is Satan?
• Who does he lie to?
• What happens when we believe Satans lies?

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The spiritual realm impacts the physical realm at
the level of culture!
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Stoicheion

• The basic principles of the world

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The War Against Women!

• Sexisms war is manifest in the crushing of women
  in both
• Gendercide 100,000,000 dead women
• And untold violence against women around the
  world
• Feminisms war is manifest in the disappearance
  of women through feminicide - the exchange of
  transcendent feminine for transcendent masculine

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Every culture has a story that explains why men
are superior to women!
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Everyone Has A Story
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Meta-Narrative answers the basic questions of
life!

• Epistemological questions (the nature, limits,
  and validity of knowledge) Is there truth? What
  is true? Can I know?
• Metaphysical questions (the fundamental nature of
  reality and being) Is there a God? What is real?
  Where has life come from? What is the purpose of
  my life?
• Moral questions (values, ethics and morals) Is
  there right and wrong? What is good? Where did
  evil come from? What is beautiful?

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A Cultures StoryAnswers Questions About

• Women and Men

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Metaphysics the Nature of Being

• Is a woman a human being? Is she made in the
  imago Dei?
• Is a woman an object to be owned by a man?
• Is a man superior to a woman? Is a woman inferior
  to a man?
• Is female a sociological construct (environment)
  or is there a transcendent feminine (essence -
  fundamental nature)?

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Morals the Nature of What is Good and Beautiful

• Is transcendent and manifest feminine beautiful?
  Or is only masculinity attractive?
• Is the uniqueness (role, function) of women
  good or bad?
• Is a persons value intrinsic or is it found in
  the market place?

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Monism, Atomism and Trinitarianism each offer
very different answers to these questions!
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A Meta-Narrative

• Synonym
• Worldview
• Cultural Story
• Function as a
• Drama
• Poem
• Great Canvas

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The Bible

• Gods Story

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The Story

• Begins
• In Genesis
• In A Garden
• A Wedding Adam and Eve

• Ends
• In The Revelation
• In A City
• A Wedding The Lamb and His Bride

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Flow of HIStoryThe Redemption Narrative
The story of meaning what is true, what is
good, what is beautiful
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The Biblical Narrative Has the Ability to
Transform

• Individuals in their call to salvation and in
  their call to their LifeWork
• Communities lifting them out of poverty
• Nations building free, just and compassionate
  societies

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Women are the Book Ends of the Scriptures

• The Glorious Eve (Genesis 1-2)
• The Glorious Bride of Christ (Revelation 19)

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All Being is Nuptial

• The unspeakable mystery of the and of God
  and His Creation, of God and His People, of
  Christ and the church would be conjured away.
  For Jewish esoteric tradition and Pauline
  theology teach that Man and Woman share that
  and. The sexual and is a reflection of the
  other all being is nuptial.
• Karl Stern
• The Flight from Woman

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The Glorious Female

• To the Christian, the entire sense of history
  is tinged with this. The earliest prophetic
  message of eschatological significance refers to
  Woman (Genesis 315). Hence it is no surprise
  that she appears at the end of history, bigger
  than life, clothed in the Sun, the moon at her
  feet. Everything, the entire tortuous plot of
  Salvation, has to fit between these two tableaux,
  and it does.
• Karl Stern

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The Bible is Nuptial

• It begins and ends with a wedding!

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The Divine Romance The Most Beautiful Love Story
Ever Told

• The Creation of Eve

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The Divine Romance The Most Beautiful Love Story
Ever Told

• The First Embrace

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The Divine Romance The Most Beautiful Love Story
Ever Told

• Jesus Receives His Bride

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The Flow of Biblical HIStoryCreation

• The Trinitarian God
• Male-Female Complementarian by design, to depict
  the Trinitarian God
• Genesis 1 Equal in Being Imago Dei
• Genesis 2 Diverse in Function Gloriously Female

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The Flow of Biblical HIStoryThe Fall

• Denying the Trinitarian God and turning to false
  god(s) Genesis 3
• The Distortion of Female and Male
• Masculine is superior to feminine
• Box 1 Sexism Men Crush Women
• Box 2 Radical Feminism Female Disappears

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The Flow of Biblical HIStoryRedemption

• Gets women out of the boxes
• Out of BOX 1 Sexism Restores a womans
  intrinsic worth of being Respect Women!
• Out of BOX 2 Radical Feminism Restores worth of
  womens design and function Celebrate Womens
  uniqueness!

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The Flow of Biblical HIStoryConsummation

• The Wedding of the Lamb

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Now forThe Rest of the Story
13) Genesis 1 Equal in Being 14) Genesis 2
Corresponding in Function 15) Genesis 3 The
Distortion 16) Sexism and the Spirit of Baal 17)
The Coming of the Bridegroom 18) The Bride of
Christ 19) The Wedding of the Lamb 20) The
Reign of Women Nurturers of Nations