Why is it that more women go to church than men?
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Wow.  Some of the comments.  Women are more passionate than men at everything???  No broad generalization there...  (chuckling)\n\nI think the answer has to do with subjection.  Even in today's modern American society, and especially in Christian society, women hold a role of "being in subjection" to husbands.  Many grow up and are taught this way.  It probably comes natural for some as well.  \n\nSo, then, many women are already used to the concept of being in subjection to something.  Men, for the most part, are not.  We're fiercely independent, aren't we?  And when it comes to Christianity...to calling Christ Lord and being in subjection to His will...that presents a larger problem for men.\n\nThat, I think, is why we see more females at Church.  Not because they're more spiritual, not because they're more passionate, but because they are blessed in having an easier time at being able to humble themselves to a higher authority.  For this, kudos to women.  \n\nSomebody once wrote that Hell's motto will be "I am mine."  Perhaps this applies.  The Bible tells wives to be subject to their husbands...but it also tells husbands to love their wives to the point of giving up their lives for them, as Christ did for the Church.  The unique thing is, when you love something that much...*you are in subjection to it*.
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Women have completed their single lives way before men do. Women usually date more often than men do because it's much easier for them.
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I don't think it's just women.  Men do both as well.  I think it's just preference..and whether the person cares about their environment.
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According to the historian Josephus, women were subject to crucifixtion just the same as men.  However, it was probably much more common for men to be crucified rather than women.
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I believe that this is apparent, because girls are more interested & apply themselves more in the classroom than guys...  this is only speaking of the majority of females in the classroom.  Study's have proven this to be true, although in the college world it seems that there are more men who recieve degrees in mathematics, engineering, computer sciences... women still out perform men in the overall percentage of degrees handed out.\n\nIn an article released at the Annual American Psychological Association Convention, after testing many girls and boys, researchers found that "[g]irls outperformed boys" and are "better than boys in successive processing across all the age groups."
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Well, all Christian women ARE priests.  1 Peter 2:9.\n\nIf you are talking about why women should hold any religious office, however, there is only one reason:  Because they feel their "rights" are more important than the Word of God.  However, why would someone who believes that their rights are more important than the Word of God want to be a minister of the Word?!?
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I joined the Church for the peace it brings me.  I was raised Protestant and have had all the fire and brimstone I will ever need.  Sigh, but for the record--it is still a harsh church for women.
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OMG, u r kidding?! Pentacostal women don't cut their hair, ever, speak in toungues at church, stand up and dance to the lord in the aisles in church, some are snake handlers...every Baptist church is different. Some have women deacons, some have gay music ministers. Some are quite liberal, some are conservative. But Baptists are nowhere near as literal to biblical translation as Pentacostals.
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No a woman is not supposed to be a Priest, or Pastor as these are positions of authority over men.\n1Ti 2:12  But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. \nThe idea is that the headship is given to the man, and the woman should not take authority over the man.  Just like the husband is the head of the house.  Women filled many other positions, preached, taught, deacons, and others.\nThe only priests are in the Old Testament.  But priests there were men, the Apostles all men.
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well, muslim polygamy emerged from the disproportionate number of women to men because so many men were out fighting battles. because there were so much more women than men polygamy emerged to save the muslim population. Had women fought the battles and not men, it might have been the other way around
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You're just figuring that out now?  In some cases, men are worse than women, especially when they all get together at bars or coffeehouses...yeah...men are big gossippers, they're just better at hiding it than women.
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The testimonies of manhood and womenhood are often neglected by todays so called "church". Rarely do men know that males are supposed to be a living testimony of Christ. Just as rarely do women know that females are to be a living testimony of the redeemed Church of Christ. Such truth is portrayed in the indisputable writings of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians:\n\nEphesians 5:\n21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.\n22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.\n23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.\n24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.\n25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;\n26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,\n27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.\n28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.\n29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:\n30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.\n\nVerse 21 bluntly clearifies that we are to care for each other, and submit to the needs of one another. Paul further explains that the relationship of husband and wife is the same as that of Christ and His Church. Therefore, let the man love and take care of his wife as Christ does the Church, and let the wife honour and obey her husband as the Church does Christ.\n\nThis is an often neglected topic in today's modern teaching, because it isn't politically correct. However, Christ nor His Apostles were politically correct.  As Peter states:\n\nACTS 5:29 Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.\n\nPolitics, including feminism and political correctness have no place in the Church of Christ. No Apostle or early heads of the Church ever tried to update Christ's doctrine to the standards of Society. Think about it, you fools, if sinners are to define holiness, then who isn't holy? If sinners are to define sin, then who needs the sacrifice of Christ?\n\nAnd for those who think that Christians cannot correct, judge, or rebuke, why does the Spirit of Christ through Paul say otherwise?\n\n2TIMOTHY 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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Women can preach and teach - but Biblically speaking they can not be Pastors - not an overseer of the Church.\n\nEven then the woman needs to be full of the Spirit or else she just ends up babbling about things she knows nothing about. MEN AS WELL!!!!\n\nAnd as far as Men Pastors - there are a great many who are in the position who have ignored the requirements. These men I would not sit under because if they ignore the written word, how can they truly teach it?
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In 1 Timothy 2:12-15 Paul says: \n\n12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.\n\n\nSo he states why right after he says they aren't allowed.  I know women in our culture have a hard time with this. But don't assume it means God loves you less than a man or that you're less important, it means what it means, women and men have different roles to play.\n\nThe women don't speak in our church, but neither do the men, the only one speaking is the pastor, so it's kind of a moot point.
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It's because back then civilization saw women as inferior and merely property pieces of the men they married. You can see this through just about any literature up until about the 19th century. Men saw themselves as superior to women, and this is of course reflected in the bible.
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I used to think God hated women but through study and prayer I learned that we are created equal.  Jesus loves me like he loves my husband!  In fact women tend to sometimes be more spiritually sensitive.  It is our nature to pay more attention to detail then most men.  A lot of times we as women seek God's companionship a little harder.  Now of course there are plenty of men that do the same. Ask God to show you the answer to your question he'll be glad to guide you through.
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Yes, and maybe women should dominate the relationships, and go off to work leaving five men at home all day.  Somehow I don't think you would like that idea nearly so much.\n\nAny culture or religion that allows men to be in charge of women, especially in numbers, wants to keep women subservient to men and to keep them shut out of anything they could have any influence on.  They also tend to be much more tolerant of men physically and verbally abusing women.\n\nThe men in these relationships are happy because they are in total control and can have sex whenever they want to because if one woman isn't in the mood, another is bound to be.  The women are only contented because it is the only life they have ever known; it is how they are taught they are supposed to live, and they are never allowed to develop their intellects enough to consider that there might be other options.