This
post is part of a series examining the “strange woman” doctrine.
The
concept of a “strange woman” is an unofficial
doctrine**
held by some Independent Fundamental Baptists concerning sexually
abused girls: They become human garbage and things to be used, to be
dispensed with in whatever way is convenient to those who have charge
over them. Note that many doctrines in a high demand group are not
formally documented but become part of the oral tradition or the
hidden
curriculum**
of their culture and are often more powerful rules than the formally
stated ones.
Ron
Williams of Hephzibah House offers a very lengthy sermon about this
insidiously taught doctrine causing pastors confront occurrences of
sexual abuse in their congregations and in educational settings.
(Full sermon transcript available HERE.
Audio available HERE.)
Violation
of Doctrine of Separation as an Excuse for Human Error / Sin
Don't
get too close to impure people who don't live right or think just
like you do. You might get sin cooties!
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QUOTE:
Part II, The
Significance of Shechem
Yes,
he’s at Shechem. Only one day away from Bethel, but that’s the
principle of compromise. He should have been at Bethel, and not at
Shechem. He could have said “well I’m within the bounds of
obedience, I’m close.” But God wants us to stay as far away as we
can from the world. . . A lot of things going on there, the coming
and going of lots of different people, and so it was a rather
interesting place. It was a place of this world, no question about
it.
[.
. . ]
They
have this unequal relationship with this Pagan community, and he knew
it was wrong to live that close to Canaanites.
[.
. . ]
He
should have kept his family away from Canaanites. He should have kept
his family away from the world. But instead he puts a booth here.
[.
. . ]
Jacob
is here a Shechem on a spiritual vacation and his family went with
him.
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QUOTE:
Part II, The
Significance of Shechem
And
not only did he [Esah] consort with Canaanites, he married a couple
of them. And that brought such shame and disgrace on his family his
mama contemplated suicide.
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QUOTE:
Part II, A
Charge to Fathers, Family Protectors
If
you have a television in your home you are not protecting your family
against evil influences. You are not fulfilling that role of being
God’s protector, because every moment you turn that on you’ve got
evil, Canaanite influences coming into your home and your family and
you are failing as God’s protector.
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QUOTE:
Part II, Far Country Disease
Now
according to the Jewish historian Josephus, there was a feast or a
festival in Shechem, and as our text tells us here she went out to
see, that’s the idea of learning their manners, learning their
customs, learning their fashions, in other words Dinah was not a
separatist.
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QUOTE:
Part II, Far Country Disease
See
a person that’s content with God, content with family, content with
home, content with what they’ve been taught is not going to go out
curiosity seeking how do the Pagans of this world live. Because
that’s dangerous. But rather she would have been content to stay at
home, she would have been content to be a separated person. . . .
But Dinah didn’t, as she went out to see the daughters of the land,
she should have known that we live in a world filled with sin. And
believe me, we do.
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QUOTE:
Part II, Proper Discipline
of Children is Complicated by Wrong Marriages
Jacob
failed as a protector. He allowed fraternization with this world; he
allowed idolatry in his own house. And that’s because he in his own
life emphasized the flesh instead of the spirit. And this produced a
daughter who did the very same thing and she ended up acting like a
strange woman.
