Margaret Fell Fox, also known as “the mother of Quakerism,” wrote the pamphlet Women’s Speaking Justified in order to prove to men that the bible supports the voice of women on several different occasions. What I like about Fell Fox is that for the most part, she does not attempt to sway her readers one way or another; instead, she gives straight examples of scripture from the bible and explains what each verse means, the proof speaks for her. In the 1800’s, women were not allowed to speak in church because it was considered to be “medling in the things of God.” When Fell Fox is finished, she gives over 10 examples from different parts of the bible showing how that is false and how God “manifested his Will and Mind concerning Women.”
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Why would it be wrong for Women to speak in church if a woman was the one who carried Jesus himself? In Jeremiah 31:22 it states, “the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, a woman shall compass a Man.” Meaning that a man and a woman are supposed to be together and support one and other, not have one superior over the other. In several places throughout the bible the disciples use the pronoun “she”, making many believe that the Church is a woman. Fell fox uses this to show that if one is against women, they are against the church as a whole.
Finally, Fell Fox proves the equality of women in the church by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When Jesus was crucified, all of his disciples left to return home except for a group of women, the same women who found him after his resurrection the he told “Be not afraid, go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.” Matthew 28:10. If it were not for those women going and telling his disciples, who knows what Christianity would be like today. If Jesus Christ can trust in women, why can men of the 18th century
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Why would it be wrong for Women to speak in church if a woman was the one who carried Jesus himself? In Jeremiah 31:22 it states, “the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, a woman shall compass a Man.” Meaning that a man and a woman are supposed to be together and support one and other, not have one superior over the other. In several places throughout the bible the disciples use the pronoun “she”, making many believe that the Church is a woman. Fell fox uses this to show that if one is against women, they are against the church as a whole.
Finally, Fell Fox proves the equality of women in the church by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When Jesus was crucified, all of his disciples left to return home except for a group of women, the same women who found him after his resurrection the he told “Be not afraid, go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.” Matthew 28:10. If it were not for those women going and telling his disciples, who knows what Christianity would be like today. If Jesus Christ can trust in women, why can men of the 18th century