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1 | Women speak in church? | 1 Cor 14:34 | userdoe220 | 9338 | ||
I think we should interpret the passage literally. However, we have to understand what it means to "interpret the Bible Literally." Please read Gorden Fee's book, "How to read the Bible for all its worth.: Now, your question. I find this passage of scripture a tough one to deal with. It def., in my mind, should belong in one of those "Hard sayings of the Bible" books. The reason is many-fold. 1.) Just two chapters prior (1 Cor 11)to the passage you are citing, Paul encourages women to Prophecy! I will admit there are some qualifications BUT if all the qualifications are met, Paul gives women free reign to "prophecy" in church. Now the problem...Can someone prophecy (proclaim) and not speak? No. (I don't think they had sign-language back than.) So, what did Paul mean in chapter 14? Or was Paul senile and forgot what he wrote a couple of pages back? 2.)What about Galatians? Paul seems to destroy the very barriers that divide us in Christ (Gal 5 T"Here is neither Male nor female, circumcision nor uncircumcision..."). If God sees us as one in Christ, why can’t women speak in church? Are women inferior to men? Why are social barriers ripped down only to erect new ones? 3.) In the book of Acts it records that Stephen had 7 young daughters that...Prophesied. I believe to prophecy you have to be able to speak. (I have many more examples, but I will rest at just three.) Now, some would say they were allowed to "prophesy", but they couldn't do it in the sancturary. I have a couple more questions for that line of reasoning. 1.) Did the early church meet in a nice church building, or someone’s house? If they met in someone’s house and worshipped in their main-room, would the wife of the house be prevented from talking in that room even if a service was not going on? If not, what makes 11:00 am on Sunday morning so special? 2.) Why does NO church faithfully practice this teaching? Even the Southern Baptist church allows women to be missionaries. Are we in America so holy that we can't have women preachers, but people overseas can? Looking at the list Americans are number 1 at, I find that statement hard to believe. 2.) What makes the "sancturary" of 1st Christian church in Plano, Tx more holy than a Sunday School classroom located in the same facility? Are we not the real sancturary? Do I have the answer? No. But I do have an idea what Paul was talking about. Yours in Christ |
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2 | What is your idea? | 1 Cor 14:34 | EdB | 9344 | ||
Okay I'll bite! Schwartzkm, what is your idea? Ed |
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3 | What is your idea? | 1 Cor 14:34 | userdoe220 | 9346 | ||
I believe if in one place Paul is telling women it is all right to speak in the church (1 Cor 10-14 deal with order in the worship service: communion, role of women in the church; gifts of the spirit etc.) and in another place he is completly forbidding them he must have been addressing a specific situation. I am not exactly sure (and if somebody claims to have the answer they are really not being truthful) what it was that caused Paul to issue this statement. I tend to lend towards dis-orderly comment/questions directed towards their husbands in service. But I would not argue this point because the scripture is silent. The one thing that disturbs me about this whole process, is I ahve never, never, never seen a church practice what I have seen posted on this forum. Every church I have been into allows their women to speak in the church and their women do not even wear hats on their heads. If they really beleived what they are spouting off on this message board, there would be a gag order. Women would not be allowed to speak at all in church. And, sad to say, the children would suffer the most. |
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4 | What is your idea? | 1 Cor 14:34 | Elijah | 9354 | ||
Kind of confusing isn’t it, Paul teaching that women can speak and minister in some scriptures and in other scriptures they can’t. This is why he was doing that, back then and even today there were those who wouldn’t except Jesus as God savior and chose to live under law and because they chose to do that, Paul, in order that they mint be saved would teach them the proper way to live under the law and not the way they had been taught by the Pharisees. But those that did except Jesus as there savior, Paul would teach them how to live under faith. Under law a woman can not speak or minister in the church, but under faith they can. If a church teaches faith in Jesus, but dos not allow a woman to speak or minister in the church, they are placing the women under law and there by placing the hole church under law and they must practice all the laws, or stop putting there women under law, if they are truly seeking to be saved | ||||||