Happy Friday. I hope you had a wonderful week as you might have noticed we've been picking

on men recently on the podcast talking about how a man's anger destroys the home or how

a man's lust wreaks havoc on his marriage. We looked at the major fallout of one man's

decision to abandon his wife and daughters and we've addressed unbelieving men twice

in recent episodes. So what about women? We end this week with an international question,

which I love because our international listeners are willing to ask questions that don't get

asked by anyone here in the States. We take it, we pose it, we answer it and we publish

it and very often those episodes prove interesting to international listeners and to our local

listeners as well. I could give you some very specific examples of how this has played

out in the past on interracial marriage episodes, for example, but instead let's just get

into today's question from an international listener, a woman writes this, Pastor John

Hello, I have been hearing from Christians around me that women are more sinful than men.

I know from my daily ungodly thoughts and actions how sinful I am, but as a mother of boys

and girls, does the Bible teach that I should teach my girls they are more sinful than

boys? I know the Bible says we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but

Eve, Delilah, Samson's wives, Solomon's wives, Potiphar's wife, these have been listed

to me as proof that women are more evil than men are. Is it true? I think it would be

a huge mistake to raise our children with the assumption that our daughters are by nature

more sinful or more prone to sin than our sons. Now let me give you at least six reasons

why that would be both misleading and harmful. First, in response to the argument that

Eve, Delilah, Solomon's wives, Potiphar's wife, prove that women are more sinful than men,

consider how utterly lopsided that observation is. When, for example, there were far more wicked

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