Be Careful What You Post...

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I posted on this topic today on my Facebook 'Blog' and there have been the most reaches by far of any post for my new page and so I therefore post on Blogger as well.

Thank you to Alieux for posting the story originally.

I hope this is helpful. Not something I would usually post on.

Time: September 8, 2014

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'Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women ‘Penis Homes’

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'This article originally appeared on Patheos.

Things have been getting worse and worse for Mark Driscoll in recent weeks. But what I want to point out for a moment is one of Driscoll’s posts from 2001, when he was posting to a church message board under the name William Wallace II. I have rarely seen an evangelical man assert male superiority and prominence this directly.'

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Driscoll

'The first thing to know about your penis is, that despite the way it may see, it is not your penis. Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while. While His penis is on loan you must admit that it is sort of just hanging out there very lonely as if it needed a home, sort of like a man wondering the streets looking for a house to live in. Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.'

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Yes, really. Men’s penises are on loan from God, and women were created to be “homes” for men’s penises. So much for any claims of men and women being “equal before God.” No, men were created by God and loaned penises. Women were then created by God to be penis homes.

Driscoll

'Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home. But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not. And, though women other than your wife may look like a home, to rest there would be breaking into another man’s home. And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.'

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'Notice that all women are portrayed as another man’s penis home, whether or not they are married. This squares with what I was taught—every woman is some man’s future wife, and that man owns her body even before they meet.'

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'In a sense, Driscoll’s downfall was only a matter of time.

 Libby Anne is a blogger for Patheos.' From the article

Alieux posted

The Raw Story: September 8, 2014

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 'Wash. state megachurch closes branches after founder is caught calling women ‘penis homes’ By David Edwards Monday, September 8, 2014 10:37 EDT'

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'Washington megachurch Mars Hill announced that it is closing several branches, and has dismissed a pastor after he recently called for the resignation of founder Mark Driscoll, who had created controversy with his anti-LGBT and anti-woman views.'

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On Monday, “Love, Joe, Feminism” blogger Libby Anne pointed out one of the more disturbing notions from Driscoll’s Internet trolling days. “Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while,” Driscoll wrote under the name William Wallace II in 2001. “Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.”

“Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home,” he continued. “But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not…

And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.” Anne observed that she had “rarely seen an evangelical man assert male superiority and prominence this directly.”

“In Driscoll’s treatment, women are no more than penis homes,” she wrote. “Women were created to satisfy men. There is nothing uplifting or honored in that.” Over the weekend, Mars Hill said that “negative media attention” had caused financial difficulties, and announced that it would consolidate several branches and lay off employees.

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I stated on my Facebook page

To me this secular article is another lesson that Christian leaders need to be wise and careful in what is stated publicly. I am not famous obviously but am online with Blogger and Facebook and edit myself regularly. Even so, I am controversial at points. I have not read much of Pastor Driscoll, but was never a fan. It seems a stupid comment, especially to let it get out and knowing how the secular media will spin it.

I have tried to be very respectful to women in my writing.

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Further from my Facebook comments the following is an example of the type of misunderstanding that can take place from certain comments from Christian leaders.

From Libby Anne

'Yes, really. Men’s penises are on loan from God, and women were created to be “homes” for men’s penises. So much for any claims of men and women being “equal before God.” No, men were created by God and loaned penises. Women were then created by God to be penis homes.'

Driscoll's comments are misunderstood in a feminist context to therefore mean that women are not equal with men.

However Biblically, right from the beginning in Genesis 1: 27 both male and female were created in God's image, indicating that male and female in humanity were equal, both made in the image of God. Both representing his nature, although finite to God's infinite nature.

Further Biblical structures in regard to how male and female work, within marriage for example, did not cancel out this equality of nature.