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Direct Answer Bercot’s argument assumes Jesus’ mission was not to overturn God’s created order of headship but to preach and live God’s truth without endorsing rebellion against that order. This challenges the instinct to treat Jesus mainly as a social revolutionary by pointing out that neither Jesus’ teaching nor His enemies framed Him as someone dismantling male headship.

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• He says proponents claim Jesus “freed women from their yoke of bondage” and “ushered in a new era for women.”
• Bercot counters: Jesus “never said a single word indicating that God’s order of headship needed changing.”
• He lists who Jesus rebuked: “religious leaders, the rich, and the Jews as a nation,” but “never said one word against men as a class.”
• He notes Jesus chastised religious leaders, but “not for the way they treated women.”
• He argues from the accusations of enemies: they “never accused him of causing women to rebel against their husbands” and “never accused him of challenging the social order.”
• He concedes Jesus treated women kindly as humans, but says feminists build a case by claiming “no other men in Jesus’ time treated women that way,” which he presents as fabricated history.