Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. So 2019 I was studying the New Testament from the Bible and those of you who are not Christian hopefully you can still glean some wisdom and some insight from my studies.

I wanted to dedicate this episode to some of the verses that I read that I thought were very applicable to our

situation. Similarly, there are some very sexist misogynistic verses in the Bible, particularly by Paul. So I am not going to cover

those or focus on those today. If you're wondering about these scriptures that say

things like women should be silent or

they shouldn't speak in church or they should obey their husbands or whatever.

Please read the book Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessie that is on our website

BTR.org backslash books. She really puts all of those types of

scriptures in context and I don't want to focus on those today so I'm not going

to be covering those if you've read those scriptures and you've thought

what is going on with these verses, I highly recommend that book. Again, that's Jesus

feminist by Sarah Bessie and you can order that book on our website

BTR.org backslash books. What I really wanted to talk about was the comforting scriptures that can really bring us comfort and

also help us know that setting boundaries is God's way of helping us stay safe.

I believe God is a god of boundaries. He sets

commandments and the commandments are to protect ourselves and they're also to protect

other people. So for example if we do not lie we are protecting other people and it

is a way of showing love for ourselves and showing love for our fellowmen.

But before I start sharing my thoughts from the New

Testament, I want to remind everyone that Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group

which is our

coaches are awesome.

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