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Deborah (Which Biblical character am I?)

Friday, December 27, 2024 (Updated: Saturday, July 4, 2026)
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Andrew Torba shared his Grok result to this question on X/Twitter the week before Christmas so I decided to try it. (His was Noah which is fitting.) You ask Grok the question and it scans your X timeline to formulate an answer. 

My result was Deborah. David and Caroline read this and laughed because it was so accurate. I looked at a lot of results that people shared online and didn’t see anyone else who got Deborah. Interesting.




This is why it’s so difficult for me to stop discussing issues. I don’t know life any other way. It’s simply who God created me to be. To tell me to turn this off is to basically tell me to stop being who I am. There are many people who are afraid to speak up about difficult issues or even things that would be considered conspiracy theories. I’m usually not (although I will pick my time carefully). For the most part, I don’t care what people think of me. (It would be a lie to say I don’t care at all.) What is important is that I carefully and thoughtfully speak the truth in love. What people do with it isn’t my responsibility. If they turn on me because of it? That’s between them and God. It’s not my problem. 

This is also why I have never fit into the conservative church paradigm despite being theologically conservative overall. Deborah would never be accepted in conservative churches today. She’s explained away as a sign of a curse, not as someone God chose to use. Conservative Christians explain Deborah, Priscilla, and other women away because they don’t fit the complementarian or patriarchal grid of the roles of men and women. I don’t fit the grid either and I don’t apologize for it. God gave me the gifts and my husband approves of me using them. Anyone who is bothered by it can leave or put me on ignore on social media. I don’t answer to them even though there are PLENTY of Reformed men online who love nothing better than to forcefully tell all women what their place is and if they have stepped out of it. 

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Sallie Schaaf Borrink is a Christian, wife, mother, homeschooler, homebody, and autodidact. She owns a home-based graphic design and web design business with her husband (DavidandSallie.com).

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