218 FEMINIST VIEWS BASED ON UNTRUTHFUL CLAIMS
Catherine Kroeger’s imagination, something that no scholar in the field
has ever advocated, is widely accepted as fact. The requirements of
truthfulness should hold us to higher standards than this.
Kroeger’s article therefore uses apparently untruthful claims based
on obscure material outside the Bible in order to turn people away from
being obedient to the Bible in what it says about restricting the office of
pastor and elder to men. And turning people away from obeying the
Bible is another step on the path toward liberalism.