I consider this more of a prompt for a discussion than a real post. So please leave comments
Recently some friends and I were talking about how we didn't really feel that it was right for women to be in the military. However, non of us could think of a verse that clearly stated that women were not supposed to be in the military. We could think of verses that discouraged a country from having female leaders which would certainly include the military. After giving it a little thought I suggested, and the other girls agreed with me, that it was one of God's “natural laws”
My question isn't about whether women should be in the military or not. It is, is there such a thing as a “Natural Law of God” and if so what things does it include?
(Gravity and the like don't count, those are obviously natural laws)
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It must be the week for controversial issues!
Wow... let me think here...
No scripture passage pops up at the moment. However, I do want to point out that there are certain things that women and men instinctively expect of one another, expect of themselves, life, and so forth. Under most circumstances (and even in nature) the male is the protector, not the female. The only exception to that rule would be the "mother" protecting her young. Men instinctively look for things to conquer, women instinctively tend to make anything they do more comfortable, be it with fluffy cutsie things, or with practical things that are assistants in everyday life. Is this observation proof of a natural law? I can't say that it is.... but I still need to evaluate what the Bible says about the subject as well.
*Note: the only time in Scripture a woman went to war was in the instance of Deborah (Judges 4) and that was because the men refused to do anything. Does this exclude women in military service? I can't say that it does.
Also, maybe it's wrong for a Christian woman to be in the military because she knows better? *No, I know that isn't always the case*
Yeah, well controversial issues are good for us to discuss.:)
I’m trying to think of some other examples. I guess one would be about hair. Paul even mentioned that as being an important thing for women to have long hair and men to have short hair and that we learn this from nature. Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him, 1 Corinthians 11:14
I know what you mean about Deborah, even the fact that she was a judge spoke against the people of Israel as their men were not willing to be judges over the country as God planned.
In the case of believers this kind of controversy should be a good thing: "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another" (Proverbs)
Just to make the discussion a little more complicated, when you say, "military" do you mean "combat" or do you mean, "any department or position of government that puts a woman in the "military" catagory"?
Either way, like Paul D., I can think of no scripture off the top of my head that decidedly decides the matter.
That is a good comment Sara. I thought about that I have also heard some arguments about a woman being in authority over a man being a problem with the military. However, I decided not to go into any of that since the point wasn't about women being in the military, but rather about if there is such a thing as Natural Law and what types of things would apply as a natural law.
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