The Bible calls daughters "cornerstones" and not "pillars. The difference between the two is functional equality.
The Church of Jesus Christ has many cornerstones, and in
Psalm 144:12, daughters are identified as cornerstones.[1] The
Hebrew word translated cornerstone in Psalm 144:12, zaviyth, is derived from another Hebrew word, ziv, meaning bright or
prominent.
Prominent persons among God’s people are generally considered leaders,
and the Hebrew text that underlies the King James Version identifies women as being included among
prominent leaders (cornerstones) who contribute to the adding to, nourishing,
edifying, and unifying of the living stones which comprise God’s building.[2]
In critical and eclectic text Bible translations, a
different Hebrew text from that which under-girds the Authorized Version is
often used that obliterates the meaning of Psalm 144:12 by changing the word
cornerstone to “pillar,” a word which aligns nicely with gender-biased-English-translation-help meet-theology and regulates women to
strictly support positions within the home and church. But if Jesus’ position
of kephale of the corner has to do
with the building, nourishing, edifying, and unifying of His Church—which it
does—then every cornerstone in the
building has the same function. But
like the pyramid [which has many cornerstones but only one chief cornerstone (the capstone)], God’s building also has only one primary angle [cornerstone], only one kephale of the corner, and that is Jesus
Christ Himself, the Chief Corner Stone.
This post is an excerpt from Woman this is WAR! Gender, Slavery, and the Evangelical Caste System
[1] Psalm 144:12, “That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth that our daughters
may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace….”
[2] The CBMW teaches that the one of the criteria for
disqualifying women from leadership is prominence, yet the Bible says women
will be prominent and gives many examples of prominent Biblical women. http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-1-No-2/But-What-Should-Women-Do-In-The-Church
[4/15/2010]
This post is an excerpt from Woman this is WAR! Gender, Slavery, and the Evangelical Caste System
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