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1 | can a women preach and teach men | 1 Tim 2:12 | Bnc2468 | 85688 | ||
i would like to know if this holds true if you have a women pastor, she cannot teach or preach...because the way i understand this is paul is talking to the ephesian women at a point in time. and i have had men tell me that a women shall not preach to a man. and i don't think that way.... | ||||||
2 | can a women preach and teach men | 1 Tim 2:12 | Scribe | 85700 | ||
Part 1 of 2 This is a good question, and one that often divides the saints. I do not think that Paul is saying a woman is never called by God to teach the Word. This is not the spirit of this instruction in 1 Tim 2:12. The context does not say anything about keeping silent in religious assemblies as the amplified squeezed in. There is such a verse and I will list it below. However this verse is about an attitude of a woman usurping authoritiy over a man. Many have interpreted this as Preaching or Teaching the Bible. That if a woman teaches the Bible she is usurping authority over a man. I do not see that in this text, nor do I believe if a woman teaches me a bible lesson is she usurping authority over me (a man). Maybe if you are raised believing such things you may have some such feeling of intimidation but I don't believe it is coming from the scripture. Now on the other hand I have seen many women usurping authority over men, their husbands most often, and scolding them and teaching them as if he is one of her children, and doing it publicly which is a very unbecoming thing for a christian woman to do, but many do it, out of habit and because it is part of the flesh patterns of the woman to do so. It is as necessary today as it was in Pauls day to tell the woman not to teach or usurp authority over the man. Now if a woman is ministering in the church and she comes across authoritative over men and tries to scold them, then the same truth applies and she should quit. That does not mean women cannot speak or teach in the church. Remember we have to get all the verses on these things to see the whole picture. I know that there are many who are going to be opposed to what I am saying, but I challenge you to examine the verses I give and carefully submit a better answer to them than I am giving. We know that Paul was inspired and that what he wrote was the Word of God and we know that the word of God does not contradict itself. So let us look at another often used scripture where Paul speaks of women being silent in the church 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. This is often used in addition to the verse in 1 Tim to try and interpretn 1 Tim 2:12 That that they are saying the same thing. I think they are different. This verse in 1 cor 14:33 does not mean a woman cannot talk in church. I don’t know of any church anywhere among the main evangelical denominations that tell the women to stop talking when they step through the doors of a church. But who among us believe in letting women or men ask questions aloud in the middle of a Pastor’s sermon disrupting the Pastor and bringing a spirit of contention in the service? This is what the women were said to be doing, (though I am not sure any of us know for sure). This confusion is the same kind of confusion Paul was preaching against throughout 1 Cor 14 when he mentions the speaking in tongues without and interpreter or the prophesying out of order, in both thost cases he says let him (not her but it applies to both) keep silent in the church. He used the same terminology in the same chapter speaking of taking a more submitted role and not trying to take over the service with your tongues, prophesy, or questions so that all are listening to you but not being edified by it. He makes it clear that the tongue could be given but only with an interpreter so that all may be edified, and even then in an orderly manner and not too many, and he makes it clear that prophesy can be given but by two or three and in an orderly manner, and so when he gets to the women, it is the same thing, not that they should never be allowed to teach which is a gross paraphrase and commentary and an inaccurate interpretation of what he said, but that they should not ask questions aloud causing confusion. (continued on next post) |
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