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THESE TEN UNTRUTHFUL OR

UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS ALSO

UNDERMINE THE AUTHORITY

OF SCRIPTURE

The ten egalitarian claims in this section are frequently promoted as

fact, but upon investigation they turn out to be only unsubstantiated
speculation, and in many cases they are contrary to an abundant amount
of factual evidence that we do have. Therefore, I believe there are not
only fifteen egalitarian claims that directly deny the authority of
Scripture (Part 2 above), but also at least ten others that in another way
effectively undercut the authority of Scripture because they lead people
to misunderstand what it teaches by promoting untruthful or at best
unsubstantiated claims as established fact (Part 3 of this book, includ-
ing the previous ten chapters).
When we put these ten claims together with the fifteen in Part 2, we
see that, within the short space of about thirty years since Paul Jewett’s
book was published in 1975, evangelical feminism has generated, pub-
lished, and promoted at least twenty-five different ways of effectively
nullifying the authority of Scripture in the lives of Christians today.
Something should strike us as deeply troubling about such a move-
ment. Is the authority of the Bible really primary for egalitarians? Or is
there a deep-seated mentality that actually puts feminism first and the
Bible second? The more I have read these egalitarian arguments, the
more I have found myself wondering this: Are these writers actually