Bible Question: A male christian friend thinks that women pastors should not be allowed to preach. I have heard that there is scripture that states that God's word gives the ok for women pastors to preach. Which scripture is this, and what scripture gave him the impression that women should not preach? |
Bible Answer: Continued from my previous post... Now if I have not proven yet that the passage in I cor 14 is not a ban on women preaching, then please use common reading comprehension skills and notice how often Paul says "keep silent" and "remain silent" in this chapter, before he gets to the women. He says it first about men. So if it means they cannot preach then the men cant either and there will be very little edification in the church at all will there. But we know that when he says, "Let the first keep silent" or "let him be silent in the church and speak to himself and to God" that he is speaking of order, or "giving place" or "yielding the floor". This is the same meaning when he says for the women to keep silent. Not that they are not allowed or called to preach. For we are ALL called to preach. Now as a final word of admonition I ask you to consider the Holy Spirit. The Word of God is our final authority, but in some things men have claimed to have the authority of the Word of God while they committed men to prison and torture for heresy. We all know that they had no such Word of God to stand on, and today men will be dogmatic about a passage that they have been taught but not studied themselves. And though the proudly puff out the chest and say Solas Scriptura, they do not have any authority from the Word at all. If what I have proposed is correct then they might be in error that ban the woman from preaching instead of sticking closer to the Word of God and banning them from usurping authority over the man and teaching him in a unsubmitted manner. Does not the Holy Spirit within you tell you that God is no respector of persons, that God will use a woman to preach as much as a man, if she is humble and under submission. And as for that manner, would you listen to a man that teaches who is not under authority himself? May God Bless you in your study of His Word. |