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Mar 24, 2021 · We knew that we needed to go deeper into: What does the Bible say about aging? What will it mean for us to think biblically as older women and to live covenantally as older women? So the first place we went was Psalm 92 where the psalmist tells us at the end,
May 21, 2024 · 4 Biblical Perspectives on Women and Gender Roles. While feminism is well represented within Christianity, feminists have frequently argued that the Bible relegates women to second-class status. Yet biblical teaching on women is not only defensible but is based on absolute truth. Dr. Kenneth Boa. Author.
Sep 23, 2009 · “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.” Continuing his definition of what constitutes “sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1), Paul next moves to the behavior that must be evident in the lives of older women.
- Conceiving Aging in Old Testament Terms
- Salient Approaches to Later Life
- The Experience of Growing Older
- Aging in The New Testament
- Attitudes Toward Older People in The New Testament
- Theology For The Aging
At Scripture’s outset, God is said to have limited human lifespan of 120 years as a limitation on humanity. “My Spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh: their days shall be a hundred and twenty years” (Genesis 6:3 New Revised Standard Version Bible 1989). The theological assertion here is that apart from God’s “Spirit,” frail ...
Harris has observed that biblical texts urged the faithful to care for older people with “a fervor surpassing those found in other [ancient] literatures” (Harris 2008, p. 101). For example, in Israelite law there exists the sanction of capital punishment for any contempt toward older people, whereas a range of punishments commensurate with the perc...
Less is written in Scripture about the process and experience of aging. Shorter life expectancy made long declines in physical and mental health less likely for Israelites despite occasional evidences of chronic disease found in skeletal remains. Even so, biblical evidence suggests that some existential and personal experiences in aging remain comm...
Theologically speaking, the birth of Jesus into the world is understood in the Bible to inaugurate a process of new creation by God. The early writings of the New Testament focus largely on the coming kingdom of God, with people preparing for this “new creation” in the near future. Only later New Testament epistles see authors considering how faith...
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for an older person becomes the name for the community leader. Likewise in the New Testament, the Greek term for an older person or ancestor becomes the name for the congregational leader. The Greek term presbyteros sometimes simply refers to any older person (e.g., Matthew 15:2; Luke 15:25; John 8:9; Acts 2:17...
Readers of the Bible are many and varied, but its canonical status has meant that readers routinely search for themes, developments, and consistencies among its various literatures. This habit is premised on the view that this literature originates in God in ways transcending the human diversity of its writers and that the Old Testament’s long-awai...
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should ...
Jul 30, 2020 · No matter the ebbs and flows of the culture, the stories, poetry, and historical accounts found in the Bible have spoken to people of all backgrounds. Among many areas in which the Bible is revolutionary, it’s high regard for women is one in which it is a document truly ahead of its time.
Aug 16, 2006 · Because of the different life expectancies of men and women, as well as the tendency of women to marry older men, 74 percent of American men older than sixty-five still have living wives, while only 40 percent of women over that age still have husbands who are alive.
