Comments on: Why are scriptures most often addressed to men?

By: Jenny Smith

Jenny Smith — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:58:00 +0000

In some cases, women were excluded from worship, like in the case of Alma and Amulek’s preaching to the Zoramites. The text makes that clear when Alma addresses his “brethren” in each of his speeches. It’s a testament to how corrupt the Zoramite form of religion was that they excluded all women and poor men from public worship.

Women were often excluded from religious expression. In the Old and New Testaments women were not allowed into some spaces of the tabernacle or temple. Sometimes, men really does mean men. How lucky we are to live in times when the fulness of worship has been opened to women and men.

By: Dan Tofte Nordby Norup

Dan Tofte Nordby Norup — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:27:00 +0000

Spot on! In hebrew, unless there is only one woman or a group with just women, the group would be addressed to as men

By: Faye Marshall

Faye Marshall — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 02:04:00 +0000

Gramps, your responses are always right on target. In using the term “man” I totally agree with everything you said. I might also add that through the times the term “man” has been used in partner with “human race”, i.e. “in the history of man” means in the history of mankind. Just a thought.