Redeeming Dinah: The Errors of Ron Williams, the IFB, and Gothard’s Esteem of Rabbinical Writing as Holy Writ

Ron Williams taught that all defiled women had brought on their own demise by essentially soliciting their own abuse. (Where have we heard this before?) Though the Genesis passage is not clear about the nature of the events and much must be inferred to arrive at this conclusion of rightful guilt on Dinah’s part, Williams taught that all women who are raped or are molested have a certain set of character flaws that he also attributes to Dinah. Those young women who find themselves sexually defiled by their own fornication, as well as by coercion by an adult while still a small child, or due to an act of violent rape suffer the same consequences that Dinah did. All bring pain and bitter consequences into their families as well as suffering upon themselves. I am also told that Patti Williams wrote of her own belief and supposed awareness of the sexual power she held over men as a little girl.

Read one of Ron Williams’ sermons concerning his doctrine of the “strange woman” HERE.