Sexism In The Bible

For this report my thesis is; The Bible was used to justify many bad things such as slavery, racism, and sexism buy when we read it more carefully it says none of this and people should stick to the text. This thesis is important because we need to know the misinterpretations that we as a society had about the Bible so it doesn’t happen again. We also need to clarify what is actually being said in the Bible and clear up the misconceptions and misinterpretations that people make about the text of the Bible.

People have used the Bible to justify sexism most notably people have used Genesis two through three to show the inequality between male and female. With the male, represented by Adam, first being made in god’s image and the female, Eve, being made from a rib of Adam or being made in Adams image. Women scholars have argued that many of the assumptions that people have made about gender have started from not only the Bible but from multiple religions. So most
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