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This next unbiblical feature concerns women and equality. We explained previously that the Bible is almost entirely anti-female and how many Christian churches treat females in unacceptable ways, but that the 4th Watch actually treats females pretty well, despite still not treating them in a completely equal and acceptable manner. While we are not completely happy with their treatment, we are happy that for the most part, females are treated very well. However, because the Bible is anti-female, treating females in the positive way that they do is going against the Bible. Don't get us wrong. Again, we are happy that they are not treated in the way that the Bible instructs, but we are merely showing you how the 4th Watch is not practicing according the Bible, even though their fundamentalist doctrine says they do.
The Bible is loaded with anti-female passages and would make any decent person sick to their stomach and heart to read such filth. We have listed here only a few of the many verses that the Bible contains which prove it is anti-female;
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1 Timothy 2:11-12
A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
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1 Corinthians 14:34
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
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Deuteronomy 22:28-29 - If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
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Leviticus 27:1-7
(This verse states the actual value of females in terms of money to God, basically being worth only about half as much as males.)
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Of course, it is obvious that the 4th Watch goes completely against these Bible verses by allowing females to speak in church and even ordaining females as pastors. And of course, a 4th Watcher would never assert that a female is worth only half of that of a man. While this is a very good thing indeed, it clearly shows the hypocrisy of a fundamentalist church.
Arsenio Ferriol knows darn well that it is not moral or politically correct to treat women the way that the Bible commands him to. If he followed these verses, then his church really would look like a cult, not only to educated people, but to everybody. He would not have very good support of his church and by having females in his cult who are treated equally, he only stands to make more money. After all, women today have about just as much money as men do, so why not take it from them as well?
Of course, as we have mentioned, the 4th Watch is still not completely innocent when it comes to treating females equally. They are not. But, they are treated far better than the Bible instructs, and this ultimately goes against their Biblical fundamentalism.
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