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Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole
Their lack of respect makes me so mad.
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I'm afraid it is in our nature and this is why we need Christ more than anything else in our lives. Augustine makes a compelling case about the differences of the sexes that all women should understand in a personal way:
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Originally Posted by Augustine
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.
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Tertullian explains in a scientific way why women are so ungrateful in general:
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Originally Posted by Tertullian
In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die… Woman, you are the gate to hell.
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I know this is no excuse and on behalf of all women, I apologize.