text:  My father explained to me that this had more to do with the history and context in which the Bible was written, but God really did love women, so I took him at his word. My father would often assign Bible scriptures to us to memorize whenever he went on work trips. We used the time when he was away to memorize those, and he always said, by the time you're done memorizing those scriptures, I'll be back home. But there was one trip that began to take longer than usual.