"False Teacher"

I find this journey of releasing & deconstructing SUPER interesting.

One reason it’s interesting is because of the amount of messages I’ve received saying I’m a false teacher, I’m leading people astray, I’m setting people up to end up in hell, God is disappointed in me, I’m a heretic, ETCETERA ETCETERA ETCETERA.

Its fascinating because I once existed with —what I assume— the very mindset most of these people have: how dare someone not only question the Bible & the way we have been taught the Bible, BUT ALSO DO IT SO THE UNSAVED CAN SEE.

How dare they.

Do they not realize they’re just giving the * unsaved * more reason to not *convert * to Christianity?

I don’t believe I’ve ever actually messaged someone I felt this way about but also maybe I have. Who knows. It felt like a threat to humanity when I bore witness to women preaching feminism, anti-patriarchal ideas, AND THEN saying they also loved Jesus?

They *cannot* have both / and.

In my mind, they were just saying stuff to make them feel better about their life.

* but what if *

What if God and humanity both aren’t our responsibility to control?

What if patriarchy isn’t divinely ordained but is actually —like every other harmful thing— a result of human sin?

I stopped assuming patriarchy was instituted by God and have been dissecting if it’s actually a product of sinful human hands.

Just because something is * in the Bible, written by man * does not mean it is exactly as God intended.

It’s odd to me that Christianity claims to be “different than the world” but has actually followed the world in the way we treat & view women.

Patriarchy is a result of the fall.

A very fancy male named Stanley Gundry states that the patriarchy that continues to appear in biblical text is a “mere accommodation to the reality of the times & culture; it is not a reflection of the divine ideal for humanity.”

So if I’m the drama, the villain, or the false teacher for deconstructing the absolute harm & abuse from Christianity & it’s toxic culture: so be it. I’ll be those things.

I release the need to grip religions boxes —& forcing others into them— & let Jesus soothe my deep wounds as we walk on the path of healing.