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1 | Does God ordain women bishops? | Titus 2:4 | WalkingTalkingBible | 118230 | ||
Is it Scipture (the will of God) for a woman to be a bishop, pastor, or elder? 1 Timothy 3:1-7 state the qualifications for such positions. I understand that all believers are to preach the word, but I'm seeking for an understanding on the offices and a woman's role in them, and I'm only concerned with what God says. The reason for this concern is that these offices are ones that seem to be directed to the "head." Does "head" only pertain to a man in marriage? Can a woman, according to Scripture, be the "head" of a church? WalkingTalkingBible |
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2 | Does God ordain women bishops? | Titus 2:4 | Fletch | 118231 | ||
I would say that in the qualifications for the positions it does say "the husband of one wife." In Titus 2:3-5 it says: "They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled." To me this means that they should not teach anyone, but other women. There is another passage, 1 Corinthians 14:34: "The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says." Though this does not address women not being a minister, I bring it up because a minister needs to lead the congregation in prayer and women are not even supposed to pray in church. |
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3 | Does God ordain women bishops? | Titus 2:4 | WalkingTalkingBible | 118259 | ||
Thanks for taking time with my question. It has to be understood that the Corinthian church was predominantly new converts. They were operating in the gifts of the Spirit and there was some confusion. Since the Corinthian women were not well educated, they were advised to learn from their husbands at home (1 Corinthians 14:35). They were told to keep silent in the church out of obedience, they, too, had the gifts of the Spirit. Men, who spoke in tongues without an interpreter, were also to keep silent in church (1 Corinthians 14:28). I know women can hold the offices of Evangelist, Teacher, Prophetess, and Deaconess. These offices do not only serve women, but for the edification of all souls. Since "minister" means "to serve," I think of this to be more of a duty rather than a title and women and men believers are to be "ministers." But I'm still a little unsettled about women bishops, pastors, and elders; but it's almost clear that women in the latter positions is not Scripture. Thanks for your time, Fletch. WalkingTalkingBible |
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4 | Does God ordain women bishops? | Titus 2:4 | EdB | 118270 | ||
WalkingTalkingBible I'm not going to delve into your question at this point. But I will make this observation. While it is common to dismiss 1 Corinthians 14 as correcting a problem in the Corinthian church it doesn't make sense to include that correction in the Bible unless it still pertained to the church today. Now if it does pertain to the church today how do we reconcile it to the rest of the Bible? Perhaps the old story of women shouting out questions to their husbands in the church wasn't in fact the case. Perhaps that is a PC answer invented to get people that live off the tithe off the hook. Perhaps the problem was universal and could happen today as easily as it happened in the church of Cornish. Perhaps the problem wasn’t mechanics of the questions but rather the content and public nature of such questions. Perhaps the wives (and I use wives here since this passages is directed not to women but to wives) were asking questions in a way that embarrassed their husband either out of ignorance or as an act of revenge or rebellion. They did this by asking questions that any good Jewish husband and priest of his family should have already instructed his family on. Thus he would look slothful or uncaring about his families spiritual well being and hence the shame. If this is in fact the case then this text falls into place Paul is telling wives in Corinthian church and also the church today not to bring public shame unto their husbands either out of revenge or perhaps ignorance on their part but be submitted keeping quiet and asking any potentially embarrassing types of question at home. I have seen wives, I won’t speculate on motive, ask questions that proved to be very embarrassing to their husbands. It brought shame to the husband and put real strain on the marriage and more than once cause turmoil in the church. Don’t be too eager to dismiss a passage as not pertaining to us today because it appears to be only addressing an issue of the day. EdB |
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