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Re: Created To Be His Help Meet by Debi Pearl *graphic content*
I started reading the book out of curiosity and there are several things right away that bother me. Debi Pearl states in chapter one that a man attains Gods favor by getting a good wife, that this is how God created us and it is our purpose for existing, that is it Gods will that a woman be a suitable helper to their husbands, that when you obey your husband you obey God and that men are created to be a helper of God. She seems to be putting the husband as the mediator between the wife and God instead of Christ being that mediator. Some how the idea of existing for the purpose of man while the husband exists to be a helper to God comes across like women were an after thought, and of less value than man, which is not supported by scripture. We are all of equal value in Gods sight, Christ died for us all equally. I just have a real problem with her theology.
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08-15-2005, 12:24 PM
Re: Created To Be His Help Meet by Debi Pearl *graphic content*
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