Religion and Women’s Bondage

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

Religion and Women’s Bondage in the Dr. Joseph Murphy Live! series is the only authorized edition in print.

Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale, and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale. He changed the lives of people all over the world and was one of the best-selling authors of the mid-20th century.

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands every Sunday as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. Over the years, Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. His books have sold over 15 million copies. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives

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• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526498

Dr. Joseph Murphy

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre. Over the years Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives the listener guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

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Religion and Women’s Bondage

Religion and Women’s Bondage

Dr. Joseph Murphy

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From time to time in Bible classes, I am asked about certain passages of Paul that seem confusing and perplexing to many women. One who intended to enter the Religious Science School of Ministry here in Los Angeles, was told by her father that the Bible was opposed to women ministers. He quoted the following verses from Corinthians. Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience as also sayeth the law. If they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is shameful for women to speak in the church. That’s in the First Corinthians, fourteenth chapter, 34th and 35th verse.

This literal interpretation of the Bible has kept women in bondage for thousands of years. Her father was taking the Bible literally, but the Bible is psychological and spiritual drama taking place in the consciousness of man.

The Bible is not dealing with doctrinal questions and theological concepts, which are merely created by theologians out of their own mentality. The word church in the Bible does not refer to a building or a religious sect or a denomination. The word church means ecclesia, or a calling out or drawing forth of wisdom, truth, and beauty from your subjective depths. It could be called an aggregation of spiritual ideas in your own mentality.

To enter the church or ecclesia of God, you must adopt a new mental attitude and realize that God is spirit and that you’re one with that spirit. Many men have read the Bible in the letter forgetting the spirit or the real inner meaning. The different interpretations of the scriptures together with their promulgation of certain creeds and dogmas are the main cause of the countless sectarian groups of churches of today.

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