Cassi was very excited one morning. She was at her cousin Ali's home one night. Ali and her mom, Alisa, my sister, took a very extensive health course and learned so much. They learned that your pulse will rise by five or more points if you eat something your body is allergic to.
Your body will release histamines in response to the allergen and cause your pulse to rise. You take your pulse. Then you take a mouthful of the food you want to test. Take your pulse and if it goes up five or more points you are allergic it.
Stay off it for awhile allowing your gut to heal and then test it again. So Cassi was trying all these different foods to see if she had any allergic reactions to any of them. Ken came down and asked what was going on. He laughed.
Cassi said, "You are always so skeptical." I told her it is in a man's nature to be skeptical. Most cults have been started by women. Fortune tellers, palm readers, astrologists, etc. are mostly all women.
The Bible even said that the woman is more easily deceived than the man. Shortly afterwards, Steven came into the room and asked what was going on. He laughed also and I told him he had the typical male reaction. This is a good thing.
Men should be more skeptical. We women fall for things a little too easily. This method of figuring out if you are allergic to something may very well be a good thing but I thought it proved the Bible's point so well. Cassi and I were immediately gun-ho on it and Ken and Steven were not. They wanted a bit more proof before they believed it.
This is why God wants men to be in charge of marriages and churches. He is God. He made us and knows us better than we know ourselves. We can trust Him.
Adam was not deceived but the woman
being deceived was in transgression.
I Timothy 2:14
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Aimee · 606 weeks ago
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Lori Alexander 122p · 606 weeks ago
"It is one of the strange historical particularities of the saga of cultism that some cults were either started by women or were influences in a major way by the allegedly weaker sex: Christian Science, Mary Bakker Eddy; the Unity School of Christianity, Myrtle Fillmore; Spiritism, the Fox sisters; Jehovah's Witness, Marie Russel; Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky and Annie Besant; the Peace Mission Movement (Father Divine), Sister Penny and Faithful Mary (Viola Wilson)" The Kingdom Of The Cults by Walter Martin
"It can be clearly seen from the study of non-Christian cults, ancient and modern, that the female teaching ministry has graphically fulfilled what Paul anticipated in his day by divine revelation, and brought in its wake, as history tells us, confusion, division, and strife. This is true from Johanna Southcutt to Mary Baker Eddy to Helena Blavatsky and the Fox sisters, all of whom were living proof of the validity of our Lord's declaration that "if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch" (Matthew 15:14b)" from pg. 286 in the book quoted above
Mrs. P · 606 weeks ago
The bible tells us that women are more easily deceived than men. Why else would Satan go directly to Eve instead of to Adam who was the leader?
PJB · 606 weeks ago
Have you ever considered that trust/gullibility it might be a trait shown more often by women who are within your highly conservative faith based social circles? If a man is savvy and a woman is gullible, it seems to me that teachings on the subordination of women might be more readily accepted than if a woman were more skeptical and prone to check things out for herself in the Bible, looking into different points of view.
Most likely that most of the skeptical, savvy, Biblically capable women have already been skeptical about female subordination, and so, you wouldn't really tend to encounter many of them among your like-minded female friends... which would explain why you seem to type-cast a certain kind of woman as a 'typical' woman... she probably is 'typical' in your experience, but I don't think your observations really transfer to what is typical of the entire gender at large.
Also, the Bible only tells us that one woman was deceived (she was). Any inferences you draw from that about what 'all women' are like are not "what the Bible says" -- they are "what the Bible got me thinking about". The difference is very important.
(PS -- I also don't see how *starting* a cult or scam is the act of someone who is gullible or trusting. It points to quite a lot of intelligence and willingness to take advantage of others who are gullible. Surely an 'easily trusting' woman wouldn't be so innovative or callous?)
Emily · 606 weeks ago
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Lori Alexander 122p · 606 weeks ago
There are millions of strong, highly educated Christian women who desire to be in a submissive relationship with their husbands because it fulfills many of their emotional and psychological needs, For those of us who believe the Bible we see God's design in creating a husband's covering and protection for us.
Any women starting a cult was self deceived. Intelligence and the study of the whole word of God was most likely put aside for their sense and feelings. Would you disagree that men are often more fact based and women feeling based? Or are your women circles filled with a new type of female who acts and looks more and more like a man every day?
Few can doubt that women are much more trusting than men. Perhaps the reason for this is pointed out by Susan below in Testosterone and Ocytocin, the way God made us.
PJB · 606 weeks ago
Of a larger sample, I find plenty of female skeptics. *I* doubt that women are more trusting than men. Perhaps that's because doubting assertions like that is part of being skeptical... which is something that I am.
I'm also not at all sure that women start cults / become fortune tellers / etc because they believe in it. I think most people (both genders) who start cults are in it for the money or the power. I think most fortune tellers know full well that they are deceiving their customers.
I don't know how someone would research your idea that "men are often more fact based and women feeling based" -- but since the Bible doesn't say either way, and no research has substantiated it, and my personal observations go no further than that I know "plenty" of men who are both ways, and "plenty" of women who are both ways -- I really don't consider myself qualified to go beyond that point.
I don't know any women who "act like men" -- none at all. All the women I know act like women... because they are women, so if they act like that, it's obviously 'one' way that women act. Women are wondrous creatures full of variety.
(Note in the study: the group of women included women who were found to both 'low trust' and 'high trust' individuals... so, clearly, women in general come in both varieties. All that was found was that a high-trust state and/or person could be manipulated by additional T. -- I wonder if gullibility is a symptom of low T production in some women? Doesn't low T in women also correlate with low sex drive? More research required. Science is complicated,eh?)
Joluise · 606 weeks ago
Susan · 606 weeks ago
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Testosterone makes trusting women less trusting and more socially wary, says a study done by psychologists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
The researchers gave 24 women 0.5 milligrams of testosterone under their tongues and later a placebo, then asked them to grade the trustworthiness of people based on photos of their faces. The women who got the testosterone were much more likely to be less trustworthy of the strangers' faces.
The research is in this week's edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To control for individual differences, they determined the women's basic trust levels from their choices when they'd been given a placebo, then divided the group into two -- one that was more trusting and one that was less. The trust levels of the naturally low-trusting didn't move much when they were given testosterone, but when naturally high-trusting women were, their trust levels decreased markedly.
Testosterone is a sex hormone present in both sexes, but in higher levels in men. Higher levels of testosterone have been shown to be associated with competition for resources and even financial gains on the stock market.
The researchers notes that previous research has shown that ocytocin (ox-y toe sin), a hormone associated with love, increases interpersonal trust. Their goal was to look at testosterone and see if it was an 'anti-ocytocin.' It's already well established that testosterone is associated with dominance and success in the competition for resources.
They conclude that testosterone plays an important role in increasing social vigilance among trusting humans.
By Elizabeth Weise
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...en-more-wa...
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Cynthia · 604 weeks ago
I just see it as a personality thing, which isn't inherently male or female.
I can see being trusting being linked to optimism. I can also see it being linked to being sociable - after all, you may keep others at more of a distance if you are always questioning. My husband is more outgoing than I am.