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1 | Should the community history be consider | Heb 1:1 | cuddle | 180810 | ||
This Question is rooted in a previous question I asked about the ability of women to teach in the Body of Christ. A very simple example of what I am curious about would be John 17. When Mary returns to tell the news of the risen Lord, is it a stretch to say that she was the first to deliver the resurrection message of Christ to a Body of Believers? This is not to imply she was usurping authority over man, merely she was teaching, stating fact, that at that moment was unknown to these men in authority within the Body. This question is one of sincerity. I have read several commentaries and articles concerning this very verse. I will humbly admit in some of my findings the language was beyond my understanding. So whoever reply(s) to this post, please be use language as if you were explaining to a child. I want to be able to use what I learn in setting to an un-churched audience. In His Service, Cuddle |
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2 | Should the community history be consider | Heb 1:1 | DocTrinsograce | 180813 | ||
Hi, Cuddle! The Bible is the proper place to find out what we are to believe (doctrine) and what we are to do (practice). So you are right to seek in it guidance for your question. I believe someone else, recently, touched on this very topic in the same way you have done. The event you refer to are found in Matthew 28:7 and Mark 16:7. These passages relate the story of how the women -- the two Mary's and Salome, per Mark 16:1 -- were instructed by the angel to carry the news to Christ's disciples (and especially Peter) that He had risen. Cuddle, the type of passage we are talking about is what is called narrative. Narrative explains what happened, when, and to whom. Think of it as history. As a general rule we do not build doctrine or practice from narrative. (We would never, for example, say that we should get water by striking a rock (Numbers 20;11); that we should sacrifice an animal in thanksgiving to God (Leviticus 7:15); that we should pay our taxes by looking for money inside a fish (Matthew 17:27); etc. Those are a few examples off of the top of my head, but I think you can think of many more.) Also, even if we could assert that women were commissioned to teach from these passages , what sort of commission would we see from Luke 13:32? :-) I believe that what the women were asked to do was not teaching. It was simply carrying a message. A momentous one, to be sure! But it would be unwarranted, even if it were not for the reasons given above, for us to place so much significance on this event. One of my professors calls this, "Placing more weight on a text than it can bear." We do have didactic passages -- that is, passages given for instruction to the church -- about women and teaching. Those are in the epistles. If we are to build doctrine and practice on anything, we should build them from there. God has taken care to tell us what to believe and what to do. In Him, Doc |
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