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In the Greek-speaking church, John Chrysostom wrote that the verse prohibits women from teaching the public or making public speeches. [8] 1 Timothy 2:12 was used in court against Anne Hutchinson. The verse was widely used to oppose all education for women, and all teaching by women, during the Renaissance and early modern period in Europe.
With God, all things are possible is the motto of the U.S. state of Ohio. [2] Quoted from the Gospel of Matthew , verse 19:26 , it is the only state motto taken directly from the Bible ( Greek : παρὰ δὲ θεῷ πάντα δυνατά , para de Theō panta dynata ).
Jesus honors a poor widow who cast "two copper coins" into the Temple treasury. What the widow gave to God was the totality of her belongings. Women had only limited access to the Temple in Jerusalem. There Jesus found the most praiseworthy piety and sacrificial giving, not in the rich contributors, but in a poor woman. [1]
The Biblical depiction of early Bronze Age culture up through the Axial Age, depicts the "essence" of women, (that is the Bible's metaphysical view of being and nature), of both male and female as "created in the image of God" with neither one inherently inferior in nature.
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Omnipotence, they say, does not mean that God can do anything at all but, rather, that he can do anything that is logically possible; he cannot, for instance, make a square circle. Likewise, God cannot make a being greater than himself, because he is, by definition, the greatest possible being. God is limited in his actions to his nature.
Jesus claims that men and women are equal in God’s eyes because in the beginning God made humankind male and female. If a man can divorce, so can a woman, but it is better to remain one flesh. Throughout the Gospels, he defends the spirituality of women and gathers both boys and girls around him, curing the ailments of both.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A massive winter storm moving across the United States will not keep the U.S. Congress from meeting on Monday to formally certify Republican Donald Trump's election as ...