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Confessions of a Homeschool Dad
Nov. 14, 2006
Are Women More Easily Led Astray?
My wife has always said that she's glad that she doesn't have my position. She doesn't want to be responsible before God for our entire family's behavior. She doesn't want that kind of pressure weighing on her.
Recently, she showed me a Bible Study book (by a famous Evangelical Christian authorette) that she and some ladies in the church were working through that I wanted to get your input on.
Basically what it said (and backed up with Scripture) was that, while men and women were equal before God (both having the Spirit and, hence, direct access to Him), He put men in a position of authority because women are more easily led astray.
It gave lots of examples, starting, of course, with Eve and going on and on and on throughout the Bible. The essence was that women are more often busy being, to put it into today's language, "in the moment" and, given a well-crafted "moment", are more liable to be led astray.*
In any case, this led me to two questions:
1) Do you think that this (women are more easily led astray) is true?
2) How does this affect what we teach our daughters as they grow up? Is there anything specific to this topic that you're teaching your daughters?
* DISCLAIMER: The fact that I put "women" in a subject of a message or that said message contains potential failings of women does not mean that I hate women, that men are perfect, or that men have no failings. Furthermore, there is no expressed or implied idea that women aren't Godly creatures, can't be good Christians, or aren't good Mothers. It is assumed that the sometimes abusive audience of this blog understands that both women and men are flawed, imperfect beings. It is also assumed that the readership of this blog believes that those flaws and imperfections are worth examining in the pursuit of becoming better, more Christ-like people.
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Anonymous 
Nov. 14, 2006 - My $.02 worth
If my observations are accurate, then there are only two logical possibilities. Either Christian women are vastly less sinful than men are, or they persuade themselves that they are doing right BEFORE they do something that violates God's standards.
If it is the latter, then Paul's comments would be easy to understand. Men are much more likely to rebel, women are more likely to rationalize.
I'd appreciate help in confirming my initial observations, though. Is this just my warped view of gender differences, or am I basically on target as to the difference between Christian men and women?