Designer Women
by Ruth Tuttle Conard
Ten different attributes women are designed to be are discussed in view of ten different women (groups of women) from the Bible. The author chose five from the Old Testament and five from the New Testament.
The main problem is there aren’t very many passages about any of these women. The author takes what little there is and then imposes what she thinks each woman would do in a given situation and then discusses how women were designed to do that. There are times when she really stretches it and has no basis in Scripture for most of what she says.
The idea of telling women what they were designed to be on the basis of Scripture is a wonderful idea. But passages that actually prove the point should be used. The author doesn’t have a right to impose her thoughts and feelings on the women of Scripture. The author would have done a better job to describe what Scripture actually says about the women whether or not they fit into a specific category.
When authors base a book on Scripture they have a responsibility not to add or subtract from the Word of God. What this author has done is add thoughts and feelings to historical people to try to prove a point that she’s making.
Although the idea of using Scriptural women to teach women of our age lessons in life is a good thing, it should have been done in a different way. Reading things into Scripture that aren’t there isn’t the right way to go about it.
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