@hopewithholly: I didn’t deconstruct because I wanted to sin. I deconstructed because I read the Bible. Not the cherry-picked verses. Not the Sunday school stories. The whole thing. And one question kept haunting me: Why do women so often end up paying the price for men’s sins? David sins, and God says David’s wives will be taken. Israel disobeys, and one of the covenant curses is that another man will violate a man’s future wife. Lot offers his daughters to a violent mob. A woman is handed over to a mob in Judges 19 and raped all night. Thousands of virgin girls are spared after a massacre and kept “for yourselves.” A captive woman is given one month to mourn her dead parents before the soldier who conquered her people can take her as his wife. I was told the Bible revealed God’s perfect morality. But when I read these stories as a woman, I had questions. Questions many churches told me not to ask. I still believe compassion matters. I still believe truth matters. I still believe love matters. But I no longer believe that every action attributed to God in the Bible automatically reflects the character of God. If God is good, then we should be brave enough to wrestle with the passages that don’t look good. That’s not rebellion. That’s honesty. #BibleStudy #Deconstruction #FaithDeconstruction #Exvangelical #feminism

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