When I think about women in the Bible, the first woman I think of is Eve. It always bothered me how Eve was made from Adam. I wonder if how women are portrayed in the Bible is the reason there is so much misogyny in the world today. With a book like the Bible being passed around from generation to generation, it is no wonder women are still treated the way they are today. Reading the Old Testament for the first time, all I could think about was how objectified women were in the chapters I was reading. The constant use of women as objects to be given away was shocking. There were several stories of men giving away their “virgin daughters” as payment. Since this is occurs so much in the Bible, it makes me wonder the affect it has on people who read the Bible everyday.
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