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1 | Can a woman speak in church? | 1 Tim 2:15 | Winona | 4538 | ||
Can a woman speak in church? I can't for the life of me see why it's wrong for a woman to occupy a place of authority, or say something during a church service. | ||||||
2 | Can a woman speak in church? | 1 Tim 2:15 | kalos | 10726 | ||
*May* a woman speak in church? Maybe, maybe not. *Can* women speak in church? Yes. They can and they do. |
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3 | Can a woman speak in church? | 1 Tim 2:15 | Hank | 10730 | ||
Hello, John (JVH0212): In pointing out the distinction between "may" and "can" you sound like my favorite professor of English. But keep sounding that way! Semantics holds a major key to one's ability to extract proper meaning from the written word. In no other body of writing that I can think of is this more important than in Scripture. I recall having read an essay once, whose title and author have long since escaped by recolletion, in which the author proposed the thesis that a great deal of our inability as human beings to understand each other revolves not around the fact that there are many languages in the world, but that we who presume to speak the same language do not, in fact, do so -- that there is a wide variance of understanding among us of the exact meaning of English words. I believe the forum is a rich laboratory in which this author's thesis is proved true day by day. -- Hank | ||||||
4 | Can a woman speak in church? | 1 Tim 2:15 | kalos | 10739 | ||
Hank: I agree with you entirely. And a good example of failure to communicate caused by two people assigning different meanings to the same word(s) (or the same meaning to different words) is as follows: trying to force "filled", "baptized" and "yielded" (with respect to the Holy Spirit) to mean the same thing when they do not. Each of the three words has a meaning different from the other two. The differences consist not in shades of meaning. The three words are entirely different words with separate and distinct meanings. What do these three different words mean? This is not rocket science. The answer can be found by comparing the three English words in any English dictionary. Or it can be found by comparing the underlying Greek words in Vine's or some other reference work. |
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