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The Girl Defined Show

Are Old Testament Laws Sexist and Oppressive Toward Women? w/ Katie McCoy PhD

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Girl Defined, Christian Teen, Girldefined, Christian Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Christian Dating, Womanhood, Society & Culture, Christian Woman, Christian Girl

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

182 - Have you every read a passage in the Old Testament and thought, "What?! Does God even care about women?" If so, you're not alone. As modern Christian women it's crucial that we dig deeper to understand the context, history, and culture of what is happening in ancient Israel. As we do, we'll see that God's laws are actually FOR women. Grab Katie's Book - To Be a Woman: The Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond NEW - The Biblical Womanhood Bootcamp FREE BOOK - Batt...

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0:00.0

Hey guys it's Kristen here and I am super pumped to talk to Katie McCoy today about a topic that we've never talked about here on the Girl to Find show that we've never really

0:09.3

taken a deep dive on in any aspects here at Girl to Find and it's this whole idea of as modern

0:14.5

women are understanding and perspective of what God says about women specifically

0:18.9

in the Old Testament and a lot of the Old Testament laws that I know many of us find confusing.

0:25.0

I've talked to many of you who feel like, well, is God sexist?

0:27.7

Like, I relate to Jesus more.

0:29.2

I feel like he loves women, but I don't know about the God of the Old Testament.

0:32.4

And so we have an expert on today to help us as Christian women gain confidence that God loves women the God of the Old Testament Jesus that we see in the New Testament that he is for women that he has a beautiful plan for women

0:45.2

That he loves us and understanding that I think will be so helpful for all of us for one just to answer a lot of the

0:51.1

like the questions that we have the questions that we have, the confusion that we have

0:54.2

around this. I think this is going to strengthen our faith as Christian women

0:58.6

living today to understand the context and the culture of what was happening in the Old Testament and then

1:04.4

when those questions pop up in your mind when you read something confusing and

1:07.2

you're like wait a minute I don't get what's happening here hopefully this

1:10.2

conversation will help you gain a filter for which you can say, okay, yeah, but culturally what was happening and you can dig a little bit deeper and see God's heart behind what was going on at the time.

1:21.1

So Katie, thank you for having this huge conversation with us today.

1:24.8

Thank you so much for having me Kristen. This is so fun and it's always amazing to

1:29.7

meet other warrior women who want to dive into this. This is not for the fate of heart.

1:34.2

This is not for the man of heart,

1:35.2

which is why I'm glad you are the one

1:37.0

that's gonna be teaching us today.

1:38.4

Because this does feel kind of overwhelming to me,

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