Expert: Dean Gade - 10/17/2006

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Followup To

Question -
Hello!

At which church meeting  (and which year) was it established that women indeed have a soul?


Best regards,


Annelie Drakman


Answer -
I guess that you could call the fellowship of Adam and Eve a church because they orginally had a good union with God...and they did meet.  It was at this church that it was established, by God Himself, that a woman has a soul just like a man.

I don't know how anyone who has been studying the Bible could miss the fact that women have souls.  I also don't know any history of the whole Christian church when women were considered not to have souls in their doctrine.

Is there some group of Christians which you have heard of that believed this lack of a soul in women?


Hello again!

Of course women have souls. I don't doubt that.:-)
Neither do I believe that the Bible says that women don't have souls. However, I have heard of a church meeting in Medieval times where the question was up for debate, following the Aristotelian view that women were inferior men, etc.
I know that I have heard of such a meeting, but I'm not sure which one it was, or which year it took place.
That's what I was hoping you would know. But maybe this is more of a church-historical question?
Regards,

Annelie Drakman

Answer
I am amazed at the strange things that went on in the name of the church.  This is either one I never heard of or quickly dismissed because it is so contrary to God's Word:


Gal 3:28-29
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
(from New International Version)

Yes, church history buffs might have noted the date.