Sunday, November 17, 2013

”God gave them the like gift” - Women Not in Faith



Shinagawa to Haneda, Tokyo



Women Not in Faith

One interest thing I felt when I read some American mystery novels was that they sometimes depicted a woman as a main culprit.

In most cases, such a female criminal was beautiful, attractive, or a creature who aroused sentiment.

In my theory, there can be a woman who knows she is very dangerous to herself and people around her as she is beautiful.  If she has faith in God, I suppose that she would not even try to make her look more beautiful.  Prettiness often invites evils accompanied by money and so on.  So, a beautiful woman in faith would not try to make her look more beautiful, thus making her poor.  But a bad and beautiful woman would try to make herself look more attractive, thus making more money.

Islam requests women to hide their hair or faces.
The Koran
The Light
[24.31] And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers! so that you may be successful.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=541486
The Catholic Church also recommends women and nuns to put on veils or wimples.

However Christ Jesus never mentioned these matters.  He only talked with a woman by a well, seeing that she had had some husbands and other men.  Indeed, if we can see how many husbands and other men a beautiful woman has ever had, her outlook would not matter; we would simply leave her in her troubles.

Anyway Christ Jesus never chose women as His 12 Disciples.  So, He never mentioned whether or not a woman should wear a veil.  But He said not to mind what to wear, though He told not to bring two shirts, shoes, or a staff for travel for a missionary.

Finally a woman is dangerous if she has no faith while minding what to wear.




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Act 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
Act 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Act 11:17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
Act 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.