MYTH-BUSTERS: Christianity Liberated Women in the Ancient World
(5:36 VIEWING) — In the ancient world, everything was about men. Women were property to be used by men. So nobody gave a second thought to a man having a wife (s) to produce legitimate heirs, concubines for sexual pleasures and female slaves for household chores.
Greek philosopher Aristotle said “silence gives grace to a woman.”
It was a man’s world in every respect. The very concept of women as individuals having rights that no man could violate without fear of punishment was totally foreign in every known culture for multiple millennia.
Jesus Christ changed all of that. In fact, as evidenceunseen.com founder James Rochford explains in the following 5:36 video, the way Jesus and the early Christian church treated women was revolutionary.
Why is this important today, more than 2,000 years later? Because one of the common myths about Christianity is that it treats women as inferiors.
Check out Rochford’s evidence from the ancient world, then ask yourself if you, as a woman, or as a husband, father or brother of a woman, can imagine what the world would be like today if Jesus had never come to this Earth:
Unfortunately, at least in this clips, Rochford does not consider that in the Law, the Torah, God gave rules for protecting the rights of women.
That the Rabbis of Jesus’ day (and earlier) has adopted a pagan attitude toward women (much as preachers today adopt cultural attitudes today) does not negate the fact that Christianity’s view of women is rooted in a proper understanding of both Genesis and the Mosaic law.
Such a simplistic treatment of the topic is a disservice to Scripture.