WOMEN NOT INCLUDED

   In the garden of Eden, the serpent talked with Eve and Eve talked with the serpent.
   But Adam was there.
   Yet Adam remained silent, watching and listening to everything, saying nothing.
   Why did Adam not speak?
   Perhaps Adam's silence is one of the greatest mysteries of the Bible in one of the greatest stories ever told.
   On the other hand, why was Eve so quick to talk? 
   Perhaps this, too, is one of the greatest mysteries of women.
   Even today, why are women so quick to talk, and why are men so quick to remain silent?
   Why are men today so quick in giving women everything they want, everything they request, and so quick as to do everything that women say?
   Is a woman a man's greatest weakness?
   Do men believe that they must please a woman before they can please God?
   Do men believe they must believe a woman before they can believe God?
   Eve has been blamed for the whole problem that happened in the garden of Eden. 
   But what about Adam?  Adam was there.  Should Adam be held accountable for his part in accepting fruit from the forbidden tree as much as Eve?  Or is Eve the scapegoat?
   After Eve's affair with the serpent, did Eve become a sexual goddess in the eyes of Adam?
   Over the past six thousand years, have women been viewed as no more than sexual goddesses by men?  That women are supposed to be seen and not heard?  That she is no more than a decoration on a man's arm as a piece of costume jewelry?
   Is this the reason that explains why men think about sex with a woman 99% of the time?
   Is this the reason why men go crazy and lose all common sense in the presence of women?
   Is this the reason for polygamy because men have a thirsty appetite for sex with women that cannot be quenched by one woman?
   Is this the reason that explains why kings have stables of concubines to satisfy their never-ending thirst for sex?
   In the garden of Eden, Adam is virtually forgotten because we see the story focused totally on Eve.  Or, is this because of the way the story has been told by men?  Or that a man would have never made the choice that Eve made had the serpent spoken to him first! 
   For this reason, men have sought to put a bridle on the mouths of women for six thousand years, forcing them to remain silent in the presence of men, and to be no more than sex slaves and mothers of their children.
   Just as men see Eve for the whole affair in the garden of Eve, they want to blame women for everything else that goes wrong.  For if women will just remain silent, then men will manage everything and do it better by himself than with the help of women.  For this reason, women should not participate in the affairs of states, in governments, in religions, and neither in churches, for men want to believe that women will make the same mistake that Eve made in the garden of Eden.  So then all women are penalized for being women, and all women are considered to be just like Eve, and all women should continuously be punished for Eve's role in the garden of Eden. Or that women are guilty for the simple fact that they are born as women?
   Or have men simply crowned themselves as judges over women?
   But along came Jesus of Nazareth, and everything changed. 
   Jesus did not treat women the way men of the earth treated women. 
   Two of the Lord's closest and dearest friends were Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus.  Jesus was a guest in their home in Bethany many times, and the Lord loved them.
   Mary Magdalene was the first witness of the Lord's resurrection, and Mary Magdalene was a women!
   After the resurrection of Christ, many women became disciples of the Lord, and the apostles never rebuked them, nor turned them away!
   In the book of Acts, many women were pastors of churches, and the apostles never rebuked them, nor turned them away!
   In the twentieth century, Fanny Crosby wrote nearly one thousand hymns for Christ, and Fanny Crosby was a woman!
   Perhaps many of the problems men have with women is not because of women, but because of the relationship men have with God! 
   In secret societies, women are not included.  Their lives are totally dominated and controlled by men as if they are living under czars of dictatorships while not knowing the secret activities of their husbands behind closed doors in chambers of darkness.  They are also expected to have babies.
   In Islam, too, women are considered as no more than property, or a piece of real estate, in the eyes of men.  She can be bought, sold, and even murdered by her own husband at his discretion.
   In Catholicism, men run the shows while the only position for women is to be nuns, or to marry men and have babies.
   In Mormonism, men run the shows while women are expected to marry men and have babies.
   How much of the way many Christian men treat women comes from the influence of men in secret societies, who have crept into churches as false prophets to distort the view of men toward women?
   If, however, men are to be the spiritual leaders of a family and the head of the household, Adam was a complete failure in this role in the garden of Eden.  Yet Eve is the one many people consider to be the blame for sin entering into this world.  So if Adam had stood up and put his foot down perhaps the serpent would have gone away.  Instead, Adam did nothing.
   Where is love when women are treated as no more than second-hand shoes, or as used cars?
   Did God create women to be no more than servants to their husbands?  To cook food, clean house, and give birth to babies?
   Are men so proud to believe that they are Kings of Everything while women are the Queens of Nothing?