No Longer Quivering
Ron Williams and his “House of Strange Women”
In anticipation of the interview, and because the information about Hephzibah House is so vast and troubling, I asked Susan what essentials she would like to discuss during the interview to ensure that they do not get missed. Though I’m not surprised, Susan stressed her desire to discuss a matter that 20/20 also presented as a problem within the IFB:
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Molested girls become eternal “harlots.”
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They were children who were culpable of sexual sin by enticing/soliciting adult men.
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Their adult abusers were not required or were incapable of exercising self-control.
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They become of only limited value/use to God as a consequence of their status as “harlot.”
Susan explained that Ron Williams and Patti Williams (Ron’s late wife) both believed that taught what she found to be a novel doctrine concerning Dinah who is discussed in the Book of Genesis. Dinah is the daughter of Jacob who, while out visiting the daughters of their new territory, is abducted and defiled by Shechem, someone who is considered to be inappropriate for marriage with an Israelite. The Genesis account states that Shechem appears to love Dinah and asks his own father to procure her as a wife for him. Jacob works out an arrangement with Shechem and his father, and their people agree to get circumcised in order to meet the demands of the Law, saving Dinah’s honor. Though all has been made as right as possible in light of the circumstances, Dinah’s brothers raid Shechem’s town, kill all the men (who were unable to fight after their recent medical procedures), and take the spoils of their little war.
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