Why were women not important in the Bible?

Answer 1

Women though they were able to stand for God's purpose on earth were not able to come as a head over their Husbands due to the events in Genesis at the fall of mankind. This is not realy a man woman ability thing, it's more obidience to the possition. Many women though not with pen and ink but with circumcition of their natural self have indeed writen God's word. Some would say more than men.you will see that women didn't have jobs or even any choices in their lives. This is not a Man or woman thing, so don't take it as one, and use your mind to try to answer this question when if you are regenerated in Christ you have the human spirit to touch God who is Spirit. That said let me say this there is in spiritual terms only one Man in the universe, who is that Christ, He is the husband and any believer in the Church is His corperate bride(Read Revelation). The writers of The Bible though phisically were men, spiritually like you(if your a Christian) and me are female(corporately) and subject to our Husband Christ. This is hard to understand if you've never read the bible before and haven't acepted Christ as Lord. May the Lord offer much grace.

Answer 2

Women ARE important in the Bible. Consider the following:

1. Jesus Christ, our Savior, was born to a woman.

2. The first person to see Jesus Christ after He rose from the dead was a woman. See Matthew 28.

3. The first human to know Jesus Christ was the Messiah outside of His earthly parents, was a woman.

4. The human race would never have existed without both a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve.

5. The first person to whom God revealed that He was going to send the Messiah, was a woman, Eve.

6. The Bible says God saw that Adam needed a helpmeet, and God made Eve. Both the man and the woman were important, or He wouldn't have made them both.

7. One of the best judges that Israel ever had was a woman, Deborah. Judges 4:4.

8. Israel's first prophet was Samuel. Samuel was raised by a godly mother, Hannah, who dedicated him to the Lord at a very young age. God used his mother to help Samuel grow to become a great man of God. I Samuel 1:20 and following.

9. After Jesus died, the men were cowering and afraid, but the women went out to the tomb and were not afraid. If women were not important, why were the women portrayed in such a positive manner?

The point I'm trying to make here is that in ancient Jewish society, women may have been viewed by some HUMANS as less important, but God always considered both men and women important.