Such Complications!!

I keep wondering why it is often said that biblical advancements and submissions are not accepted in academia or intellectual discourses. I like to think of it as politics of convenience and rightfully so, because if all the other areas of study, which is an assemblage of information but probably empirical as they like to say or make us believe, why can’t the information from the Bible be used?

If the Bible which also happens to be the most printed and widely read book in the whole wide world is not qualified to be engaged in any debates, why then is Theology studied in Schools like the other subjects that they deem qualified? Who justified their inclusion anyway?  Some Board perhaps.

I know people will be quick to say, the Bible is to Christians as the Quran is to the Muslims, so what happens to someone who does not share in the Christian faith? Must you share in a faith to know the Truth? Must I necessarily be a Muslim to at least understand that ablution before prayer is in order and makes sense?

We have imposed so many beliefs on ourselves just to suit our rebellious egos and I guess the repercussions are clear for all to see. According to the creation story which is only recorded by the Bible and no other area of study nor the Thesaurus and all the Encyclopedias we have around, and in no uncertain terms, man was believed to have rebelled against his maker, God, ably initiated, directed and overseen by man’s helper, Eve, and till today, the daughters of Eve have ensured that, the Sons of Adam will not know peace.

Having committed that atrocious sin which is believed to have set the tone, God punished all of them accordingly; each according to his or her capacity and the role they played in the Eden gate scandal. The Bible explicitly recorded their punishments in Genesis 3:6 to the woman that “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband’ and he shall rule over you’’ (KJV) and in Verses 17-19, it stated to man that “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your lie. Both thorns and thistle it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return’.

If most of us believe in the creation story, then it is just right to believe in their punishments too, but once again, Eve, the torchbearer is making it difficult for man to have a breather. She has twisted the arms of the man and taking him on another endless folly trip which probably might warrant them another grave punishment. 

Man to a very large extent is serving his punishment by toiling and eating the herb of the field. Man is still eating bread till he returns to the ground; despite Jesus’ admonishment that he shall not live by bread alone and in most cases they even matures into automatic bread winners. Man was supposed to toil before he eats for the rest of his life, to which he carries out daily without hesitation even though some of them grumble.

A woman’s desire as embedded in her punishment was to be that of his husband and overruled by her husband but things have changed drastically and once again, women have shown God that, they can’t be tied down to His punishment. They can’t be kowtowed by his dictates and will do as they want. Women’s desires are no longer that of their husbands, they have taken the law into their own hands and are competing with the men, even in toiling the land. Eh!

Women have rendered so many men jobless because they have taken the vacant slots that were supposed to have absorbed the men. They rather become the breadwinners while the men stay at home and in some cases, they even refer to the men as lazy, irresponsible and uninspiring. Hmm! As to how the men feel when they are seated at home, while the women become the breadwinners, we shall leave it now to revisit later.

Women can advance so many theories and justifications to draw empathy to themselves and make a man feel so wicked for treating them unequally when it is their own doing. They were the ones who led the men into trouble which has warranted them the life they ought to have had but they are the first to yell on top of their distressed voices. 

Women are actually in competition with men, regardless of the fact that they were supposed to be serving different punishments and its related consequences. Some of the notable points they readily project are, they have been relegated in decision making processes for far too long and it was time they were included or were given the mandate to actually oversee the men. Some of them will do anything to actually make the men's desire, theirs. Some have made baby-sitters out of men, leaving helpless babies as three months old in the care of a man, just because they have to go and toil which should actually be done by the latter. I can bet my last writing ink that, some women would actually do anything to see men take over conception and the multiplied pain that characterizes labor and i'm even sure some bunch of men and women are locked up somewhere in a laboratory trying to make it possible for men to start delivering babies, to end it all.

Why are these daughters of Eve complicating life for all of us? Why are these women arrogating all these roles or a punishment which was supposed to be a man’s preserve? They even tout with chic, their prowess when they say “what men can do, women can do it better” which they coined from their 1985 Beijing Conference in China, not to talk about their trump card “Times have changed”. 

Hello, can somebody out there read me? Please tell somebody to tell somebody that they should change the texts in the Bible already, because times have changed? Many books have undergone revision and some have even been scraped out of the system because they have become obsolete and irrelevant with the times, but the Bible has stood the test of time and has seen no such revisions, so who is downplaying its importance and always relegating it to the background when it comes to deliberating on what the TRUTH should be? Someone or a group of persons must be playing some kind of mind games with us and who is dictating the pace and what we should do at which time? 

This hijacking of role and to be equal to men has made life complicated for many a people or us, as a generation. Some men cannot marry some women simply because the women are in some professional occupations that are not socially accepted. If only the women will tell you the number of men they desire on daily basis but hold themselves in check because of many trivial reasons, then you would know what I’m talking about. In some instances, it even bars communication between two potential couples because a woman of her caliber could simply not stoop low to be seen chatting or hanging out with a man of her dreams.

An acquaintance of mine, @Swayekidd, whose thought inspired me to write this piece, is of the opinion that women have successfully made nonsense of God’s curse or punishment and it is just right for them to help alleviate the woes of the men, but are they not aggravating our situation more than they are helping, and in any case, are they done serving their arduous and sacrificial task of labouring for nine months? Infact the women should live and let’s live!