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Not the same thing at all.

December 20th, 2021.

Dear Dawson, I'm glad that I appear to be getting up the crux of your questions.

What I wanted to do in this letter is discuss equity and equality

and how we are to understand those words when it comes to life between the sexes.

A egalitarianism has been a true intellectual corruption.

And it is the kind of corruption that has gotten into everything.

It worked its way into our collective heart in the form of envy

and worked its way out in our collective mind in the form of what is called equality.

It has even crept largely unnoticed into the assumptions of many conservative believers.

So we have to be careful working through this.

There are layers.

Biblical equity means that we are to apply the same standard to all,

whether Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female.

At this first layer, we do this because we want to get the same equitable result.

When someone is charged with a crime, for example, we require two or three witnesses for a conviction.

We do this because if someone is charged with shoplifting, say, whether it is a man or a woman,

we want the same rules applied and we want the same results as a consequence of applying those same rules.

We want the guilty man or woman to be convicted and we want the innocent man or woman to be acquitted.

We want the same rules so that we can get the same results.

We want equity in the application of the rules and we want equity in the results.

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