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Now upon the first day of the week very early in the morning they came to the
tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared and certain others with them 2:
And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb 3: And they entered
in and found not the body of the Lord Jesus 4: And it came to pass as
they were much perplexed about it behold two men stood by them in shining
garments 5: And as they were afraid and bowed down their faces to the
earth they said to them Why seek ye the living among the dead 6: He is
not here but is risen remember how he spoke to you when he was yet in Galilee 7:
Saying The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful anthropos and be crucified and the third
day rise again 8: And they remembered his words 9: And returned
from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest 10:
It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and other women
that were with them which told these things to the apostles[1] 11:
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not[2]
This is an excerpt from the Hungry Hearts Bible Commentary (HHBC)
[1] Women were the very first believers and preachers of
the gospel [good news] of the risen Christ—the very first cornerstones laid by
the Almighty in the structure he called his Church—his building made without
hands, constructed of living stones. The Church of Jesus Christ has many
cornerstones, and in Psalm 144:12, daughters
are identified as cornerstones. The
Hebrew word translated cornerstone in Psalm 144:12, zaviyth, is derived from another Hebrew word, ziv, meaning bright or prominent. Prominent persons among
God’s people are generally considered leaders, and the Hebrew text that
underlies the King James Version identifies women as being
included among prominent leaders (cornerstones) who contribute to the adding to,
nourishing, edifying, and unifying of the living stones which comprise God’s
building.
The Counsel for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) teaches that the
one of the criteria for disqualifying women from leadership is prominence, yet
the Bible says women will be prominent and gives many examples of prominent
Biblical women. http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-1-No-2/But-What-Should-Women-Do-In-The-Church
[4/15/2010]
In critical and
eclectic text Bible translations, a different Hebrew text from that which
undergirds the Authorized Version is often used which obliterates the meaning
of Psalm 144:12 by changing the word cornerstone to “pillar,” a word which aligns
nicely with gender-biased-English-translation-helpmeet-theology and regulates
women to strictly support positions within the home and church. But if Jesus’
position of kephale of the corner has
to do with the building, nourishing, edifying, and unifying of His Church—which
it does—then every cornerstone in the
building has the same function. And like the pyramid (the only structure which has a primary
angle, known commonly as a capstone), God’s building also has a primary angle.
And there can be only one—only one kephale of the corner—and that is Jesus
Christ Himself, the Chief Corner Stone.
[2] After 3 ½
years of Jesus’ example in treating women and men with perfect equality, ex: defending
the right of Mary the sister of Martha to sit at his feet and be
taught on equal par with the men when Jewish tradition taught fathers that
teaching their daughters the scriptures was equal with teaching them abut sex
[i.e., teaching them meant having sex with them]; The woman he violated
social and cultural norms and traditions by speaking to her—and discussing
theology with—at the well; and all the women who followed him in his journey’s
(never telling a single one of them to stop following him go home), the
apostles still did not understand that Jesus set both women and men free from
the burden of the awful curse that set them at enmity with one another, causing
men to sinfully desire the complete domination of women and caused women to sinfully
follow after the source of that domination rather than her creator who is her
only master and head (source of life).
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