Quoting Quiverfull: Part 5 – Fathers Own Daughters?

Quoting Quiverfull: Part 5 – Fathers Own Daughters? January 20, 2017

quotingquiverfullby Sarah Faith Schlissel from Chalcedon and BibleTopics.com – Daddy’s Girl: Courtship and a Father’s Rights

Editor’s note: More twisted flip-flopping on fathers own daughters theme. This time she claims that a woman cannot make a vow and have it be binding on its own because her vows belong to Daddy.

Numbers 30 provides help in understanding God’s view of the father/daughter relationship. “If a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by an obligation, in her father’s house, in her youth, and her father hears her vow and her obligation by which she has bound herself, and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand, and the Lord will forgive her because her father had forbidden her.

In that scenario, a daughter has solemnly promised something to the Most High God, who has no superior. The father then hears of this vow, and on the day he hears of it, forbids her, saying, “No, Miriam, you may not do temple service on the 15th of Adar; we have to visit our relatives in Be’er Sheva that weekend.” And the LORD will forgive her because her father had forbidden her. So much, then, for “God told me to disobey you, Daddy.” Throughout Scripture, daughters are given in marriage; they do not give themselves and they may not be taken.

QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.

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