AN EXPOSE` OF THE ZONDERVAN HANDBOOK TO THE BIBLE, Part I (of VII)

Zondervan Claims Bible is "Misleading."

Zondervan Publishing has taken yet another step toward a fully feminized, apostasy. On page 603 of the Zondervan Handbook to the Bible (third edition, 1999, by David and Pat Alexander) is an article by Richard Bauckman. He writes this in the first paragraph:

In the social world of the New Testament period it was mostly men who had official authority in the public sphere, whereas women often had real power and influence, alongside men, in the domestic sphere of the household. The latter was far from unimportant, but literature of the period written from the male perspective, as most is, can easily give a misleading impression by focussing on those aspects of life in which men were dominant.

Did you catch that? The literature of the NT era was "misleading" by "focussing on" the "men." Don’t worry, though. The good Professor Bauckman didn’t give poor old God a flat out F. The next paragraph tells us that the gospels were nice to the ladies. So God, I guess, gets a C or so, because, while the accusation evidently stands against the rest of the New Testament, God did okay when He wrote Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The strong implication is that we have to read between the lines of the New Testament to find the truth because its type of literature can mislead us. Makes you wish God was just half as smart as Mr. Bauckman, huh.

But wait. There’s more. In the end of the article Bauckman informs us that Mary was being groomed for a teaching role and we know that because she received instruction at Jesus’ feet in Luke 10:38-42. Well, so did others. Sitting at a rabbi’s feet showed submission. And it showed that Jesus was willing to teach a woman. It is not an indication that she will be a teacher in God’s assembly. A disciple of a rabbi training to teach would be sitting at his feet for years, not an afternoon. And he would be male. These points are obvious. Lots of people sat at Jesus’ feet. In chapter seven we read of the demoniac who sat at His feet. Was the demoniac a rabbi in training? Why only Mary, Mr. Bauckman?

Richard Bauckman has shaded the truth about these passages to fit a feminist agenda.

If you are of a mind to give our prostituted friends in Grand Rapids the benefit of the doubt, please wait for next six segments of this expose` to come out this coming week and next. You will see the Zondervan Handbook to the Bible pushes feminism, evolution, eco-paganism, feminist interpretations of the Bible, and more. And you will see that they are more than willing to lie in order to do so.