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Golgot, it seems like you just enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing.
Everything back then was house-oriented. It was 3,000 years ago!! Most people were either farmers or ranchers. They worked at home and lived off what they produced. There weren't factories or office buildings. Your business was at home.
You didn't go to the store and buy clothing unless you were extremely wealthy. You either bought the fabric and dye or you made it from your own livestock or plants. It specifically says that she makes linen garments and sells them. She supplies belts to the tradesmen. That is a business. She wasn't selling them to herself. She couldn't have been manufacturing computers because they didn't exist back then. You're acting like this is an all-inclusive list of things that a woman is allowed to do. It is a proverb that describes a hard working, family loving, praise-worthy woman who lived 3,000 years ago.
Buying a field is buying property. I don't know where you get off saying it isn't. The defition of property is: "1. Something owned; a possession. 2. A piece of real estate. It meets both of those definitions. It says that she buys a field, and from her earnings she plants a vineyard. She has a business, it is not just work for her household.
It might be that "the Bible makes sure the gender roles don't degenerate into a feeling of extreme superiority vs. inferiority" because doing so IS WRONG.
Your whole last paragraph is a horrible interpretation of that text. By your definition, if a man buys leather and makes it into a belt, then he is a manufacturer. But if a woman does it, she was just shopping??? If a man buys a field, earns money, and plants a vineyard; then he is farmer. If a woman does it than she is just making groceries? How can you possibly take that text, given that it was written before we really even had manufacturing and service industries, and call it demeaning toward women? If anything, it described a renaissance woman in her time.
I think all you've proven is that you want Christianity to suppress women, and when presented with evidence that it is not supposed to, you just choose to ignore it and/or twist a plain text into something that suits your own purposes.
There is nothing in the Bible that says who has to work at home and who has to work outside of the home. There is nothing in the Bible that says that the wife has to raise the kids and the husband can't. There is nothing in the Bible that prevents both the man and woman from working outside the home. You are making distinctions that do not exist. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you are a programmer, a Citigroup executive, an accountant, a car saleswoman, or a Mary Kay saleswoman. What matters is that provision for the family and caretaking of the family both occur. As long as that is discussed and agreed upon by the husband and wife, it doesn't matter what roles are taken.
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