Accused of Being Ignorant

Expect to not be liked by many if you teach or speak the Truth of God’s Word. They will tell you that you lack grace and humility. They will accuse you of being hateful, ignorant, or your head is in the clouds. Here is the typical feminist response when I write a post about younger women being a keeper at home. This is an actual comment.

"Proverbs 31 also states women are to be hard working not lazy and only staying home doing nothing, but to be productive. How can a godly woman influence and speak for others by staying home living in a bubble? How can our children compete in this world and succeed, if women and mothers also don’t contribute financially? What is the point if sending girls to get an education if their only goal is to stay home and do nothing but housework? Women can balance and choose. Don’t you dare say it’s ungodly for a woman to work outside her home. You just insulted many teachers, nurses, doctors, nurses, judges, social workers, and reverends! I’m unfollowing your ignorance now!"

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed {Titus 2:4, 5}.

Proverbs 31 also states women are to be hard working, not lazy and only staying home doing nothing, but to be productive. Women don't have to be lazy at home and they should not be. God has called us to work hard since this is what He has created us to do. There is a lot of work to be done in the home: cooking, cleaning, teaching and disciplining children, shopping, gardening, creating, exercising, being a help meet to their husband, sewing, reading, studying, and any number of projects they have in the home. A godly wife in the home raising children should never be lazy, but do her work cheerfully as unto the Lord.

How can a godly woman influence and speak for others by staying home living in a bubble? A mother at home influences society more than anything any one else can do since she is in charge of raising human beings and the next generation who will go out into the world. These children hopefully will be salt and light to a dark and decaying culture. When she goes to the store, she can strike up conversations with the cashier and begin to minister to her. She can do this wherever she goes. Her greatest influence, however, will be with her own family. 

How can our children compete in this world and succeed, if women and mothers also don’t contribute financially? I only worked for the first two years of my oldest daughter's life but have been home ever since. My husband has worked hard for all of us to provide for us just as the Lord has commanded him to do. He commands all men to provide for their families. We don't need to contribute financially to the world since there is a whole lot more to life than just making money. Raising a human being is a lot more important in God's eyes since this is eternal work and making money isn't since everything will one day burn up except for the souls of human beings.

What is the point if sending girls to get an education if their only goal is to stay home and do nothing but housework? Daughters still need an education so they can read, do math, and develop their intellect; then they can raise godly, wise, and intelligent children. Their entire education can be done at home, especially with all the amazing homeschool programs available now. If they want to have a career before having children, they should try not to have any debt and be able to quit their career at any time, so they can be home full-time with their children once they have them.  

Women can balance and choose. Don’t you dare say it’s ungodly for a woman to work outside her home. You just insulted many teachers, nurses, doctors, nurses, judges, social workers, and reverends! What about all of the children who are being denied having their mothers home full-time with them? Don't they count? Don't they need their mothers more than anyone else? Others can fill the place of all those careers you mentioned such as men {best choice and only choice for reverends}, single women, childless women, and women whose children have all grown up, but no body can take the place of a mother in a child's life.

I’m unfollowing your ignorance now! That's okay with me. I just hope I have planted some seeds of Truth in your mind that may take root some day and you will go home full-time to be with your children and raise them instead of having someone else do it.

I’m not the one who made this verse up. The God of the universe who created us and knows what is best for us is the One who made up this verse! This woman is shooting the messenger but the One who she is really shooting and will have to answer for is the Lord.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:6, 7
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